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Our Space

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  • - Artist's impression of the front of the building - the vision which drove us through years of planning and fundraising!
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  • - The logo developed by the people who use Our Space painted on the door of the greenhouse which is their current base.
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  • - Lots of glass brings the outside in - landscaping work will make the exterior as impressive as the building itself!
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  • - One of the multi-purpose rooms showing flexible partitioning.
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  • - Looking out from the reception area gives an idea of the space and airiness achieved.
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  • - The front of the building - art work will be developed for the panels at either side of the entrance.
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  • - The glass roof gives the building amazing light and is a thing of beauty itself.
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  • - Ashleigh staff making sure everything went to plan during construction.
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  • - Interior windows make sure the each room is light and open.
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  • - Taken from the kitchen, this shot shows the scale of the building which isn't apparent from the front.
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  • - The kitchen is small but well equipped - more ambitious catering is available from Lindy's.
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  • - Looking down the corridor from the reception area toward the kitchen.
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  • - The glass roof gives the building amazing light and is a thing of beauty itself.
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  • - Moving on down towards the kitchen.
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  • - Interior windows make sure the each room is light and open.
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  • - Pipe work for the under floor ground-source heating - just one of the green features of the Baird Centre.
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  • - The Changing Places toilet will make a real difference to many people with PMLD and their families.
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  • - The Changing Places toilet will make a real difference to many people with PMLD and their families.
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  • - The newly installed reception feature - we look forward to welcoming you here!
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  • - Detail from the reception feature.
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  • - Planters in the Baird Centre reception
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  • - Detail from the reception feature.
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  • - Our first glimpse of the reception seating.
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  • - Funky furniture!
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  • - Funky furniture!
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  • - The seating will brighten up the dullest meeting!
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  • - Funky furniture!
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  • - Happy chairs are chatting!!
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  • - More traditional furnishings for the Mulberry Lounge - a dementia friendly space.
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  • - Temporary planting at the front of the Baird Centre
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  • - Plans for the landscaping, by Erz, around the Baird Centre.
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  • - Plans for the landsacping, by ERZ, of the old walled garden.
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  • - Rolf Roscher of Erz with Jamie Ewing of the Gardens Development Group
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  • - Landscaping work nearing completion (honest!)
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  • - Rolf Roscher, of Erz, meeting with the Gardens Development Group in the new potting shed.
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  • - The Gardens Development Group keeping an eye on progress.
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  • - Still more of a building site than a garden - this is the bottom of the new garden leading out to the wide estate. We managed to keep the old decorative brickwork though the wall needed some remedial work to make it safe.
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  • - Raised beds with easy access for wheelchair users.
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  • - Many of the old fruit trees were kept.
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  • - Lots of new trees have been planted.
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  • - The new potting shed will be light and airy with views out over the garden.
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  • - View from the back of the Baird Centre. It'll look better come the summer but it's getting there!
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  • - Colourful design (by Kabe) is really bringing the building to life. It'll look even better when the paint is dry!
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  • - Creative reworking of 'the Hansel man' into this abstract design - by the clever ladies at Kabe, again.
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  • - The same design but a spectrum of colour makes walking down the corridor an experience in itself!
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  • - Colourful vinyls, inspiring words.
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  • - Colourful vinyls, inspiring words.
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  • - Detail from the vinyls at the entrance
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  • - Designed by Kabe, custom built by Harvey McLean and admired by all!!
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  • - Things are moving on a pace in the gardens too. The turf instantly transformed it from a building site which might one day be a garden to a garden which needed some finishing touches. Our thanks to Rolf Roscher at ERZ for the design and for turning it into a reality.
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  • - View towards the back of the Baird Centre.
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  • - We are not open yet but she is making herself at home!
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  • - Not quite through the looking glass - through the golden gate!
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  • - View from the gate up to the potting shed and tunnels.
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  • - Almost ready for planting.
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  • - View from the back of the Baird Centre.
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