Inspirational People Wanted

The following roles are now being recruited to deliver the Heartlands vision and to ensure the long-term success of Heartlands. We require experienced, effective and inspirational individuals who are as motivated and excited by this opportunity as we are.

• Chief Executive: To lead, inspire and deliver the vision for Heartlands through maximising business opportunities and developing future strategies to enhance the development. You will have proven leadership ability, with the capacity to conceive and articulate a strategy for the future, and the skill and passion to inspire the Heartlands team to fulfil it. Experience of social enterprise, working with communities and with local regional stakeholders across multiple sectors is essential.
  
• Marketing Manager: To promote and develop the brand for Heartlands to a local, national and international audience. You will have a background in destination marketing through traditional channels and in using web-based and event strategies to maximise the audiences for mixed-use sites. Heartlands is within a World Heritage Site and the role requires a balanced understanding of the tourism, commercial and education sectors.
  
• Enterprises & Operations Manager: To lead the enterprises team through developing retail, catering, corporate and commercial income opportunities and provide overall management for the facilities and site team. You will be commercially focused with a background in leading catering and/or retail from launch to operation.
  
• Business & Finance Manager: To manage the smooth and efficient financial and administrative aspects of Heartlands and its multiple uses. You will be an experienced manager with proven financial and administrative experience, supported by an understanding of policies and procedures relating to site management, human resources and running effective financial management systems.

The closing date for the roles is Wednesday 16th February. Interviews for the Chief Executive post will be held on February 28th and March 1st. All roles to be employed by the Heartlands Trust.

For details on the project, the roles and any further background information, please contact Kelly Gray on 01209 722320 or kgray@cornwall.gov.uk

Unique gateway size and scale revealed

Artist Walter Jack is working on a unique gateway in the form of a crushed wall, that will take visitors from Pool Village to the Heartlands site.

The crushed wall is inspired by Cornish geology and is a representation of crushed rock in liquid form.

The 24 metre long wall will be cast in concrete using the mould pictured in the above photo, this shows the exact scale and size of the wall.

Walter Jack worked with local concrete suppliers Ladds to develop innovative casting techniques that will create the waves in the concrete.

Above photo courtesy of Walter Jack

Our community building has got walls!

Bow-Wow's replica Gunpowder Store taking fine form

Architects and artists Atelier Bow-Wow are creating two gateways in to the Heartlands site which will take visitors from the main entrance or from Cornwall College.

Above are photos of the sample of the gateway from Cornwall College that will be a spiral walled structure and will be symmetrically positioned next to the existing Gunpowder Store, producing a Gateway by walking between the new and replica Gunpowder Stores.

The yellow line in the photo below shows where the new structure will sit opposite the existing Gunpowder Store.

News from site.......

Its been a busy start to the year on site at Heartlands. The structure to the entrance building of the exhibition has commenced with the steel beams being put in to place.

The entrance building as seen in the above photo sits on the footprint of the original building that stood there prior to it being burnt down just after the mine closed.

The above and below photos show work to the foundations of the Artist Terrace. Artist studios and workspace will occupy the ground floor and 1 and 2 bedroomed apartments will be on the first floor.

The Chy an Bobel Community Building's steel structure is almost complete as seen above and below.

Christmas Wishes from Heartlands

The image above is courtesy of artist David Mackie who is working on the Diaspora gardens public art commission at Heartlands. David has been working with local schools and community groups to develop patterns that are inspired by the Cornish Diaspora countries of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, North America and South America. The patterns designed will be reproduced in bronze and fixed to Cornish granite boulders that will be located in the five Diaspora gardens at Heartlands, which includes planting that covers the fours corners of the globe that the Cornish migrated to.

Chy an Bobel update

The Chy an Bobel (Community Building) is really starting to progress quickly as the centre atrium section of the building has now been put in to place.

The above two images show the the architects impression of how the community building will look with Robinson's Shaft in the background and the photo shows how the Chy an Bobel is coming along exactly to the architects designs.

The community hall in the Chy an Bobel now has its steel structure in place, the above shows how the inside of the hall will look. This space will be available for community groups to use, fitness classes, conferences, meetings, parties, weddings and much more.