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Digital Arts Box
Welcome to the Digital Arts Box CIC news and blog section, where you’ll find updates on our projects, events, and behind-the-scenes looks at our work. We provide a platform for thought-provoking discussions and give you a glimpse into our creative process. Keep checking back for regular updates.
‘Stop Loan Sharks’ Awareness Video Project
We are delighted to be continuing our partnership with England Illegal Money Lending Team and Cheshire Constabulary with the latest instalment of our anti-loan shark project. Starting later this month the ‘Stop Loan Sharks Awareness Video Project’ will bring together...
Animating Halton’s Heritage- Celebrating Halton’s Heritage
We are really excited to announce the Animating Halton’s Heritage project! The project exploring trade in Halton will culminate in a 2D animation being revealed at Heritage HQ in September. The project allows people of all ages to get involved with different parts of...
‘Stop Loan Sharks’ Pixel Art Unveiling At Norton Priory
We are delighted to unveil our Stop Loan Sharks Pixel Art installation at Norton Priory, the culmination of our collaborative project with the Illegal Money Lending Team and Cheshire Constabulary. Throughout 2021 Digital Arts Box CIC worked with over 200 young people...
Announcing our next project Try IT – Digital Arts St Helens!
We're delighted to announce our latest project Try IT - Digital Arts St Helens, delivering free training opportunities in digital arts & technology skills for adults in St Helens starting in January 2022. After the success of similar courses for adults held in...
Introducing Digital Arts Box
We are excited to announce that MakoDigital Arts CIC will soon be transformed into Digital Arts Box CIC. Why is this happening? We feel the time is right to embark on this new direction for our Community Interest Company so that it stands alone from Mako Create, both...
Tesco Community Grants – Vote MakoDigital Arts!
We are excited to announce that MakoDigital Arts has been included in Tesco's Community Grants scheme. From October 1st until the end of the year you can vote for us at Widnes' Tesco Extra on Ashley Retail Park. Blue tokens are available with any purchase made...
FOUR MORE free creative courses.
We are overjoyed to announce that we have been successful in securing funding from Thomas Wall Trust to be able to extend our Creative & Digital Careers In Halton project. This funding will enable us to run four additional short creative courses for adults in...
New Stop Loan Sharks Project Announcement – Pixel Art
We are delighted to confirm our partnership with England Illegal Money Lending Team, Norton Priory Museum & Gardens and Halton Police on a new project focused on informing Halton residents about the dangers of Loan Sharks. The ‘Stop Loan Sharks Pixel Art...
Thank you to Tesco for their Bags of Help!
THANK YOU TESCO! Thanks to the Tesco Bags of Help scheme for giving us support of a £500 grant, as they say "Every little helps". Like most organisations MakoDigitalArts CIC is currently on lockdown due to Covid-19. We will be putting this funding towards online...
Illegal Money Lending, Live Graffiti & The BBC
We’ve been working hard in Halton, in partnership with the Illegal Money Lending Team, to raise awareness of the dangers of Illegal Lenders (a.k.a. Loan Sharks). There are an estimated 310,000 households across the country that are in debt to loan sharks. Halton has a...
HACKcampUK: Recruiting Engineers
We’re currently recruiting engineers working or studying in the following areas to be part in HACKcampUK: environmental, computing, chemical, civil, structural, energy and power, manufacturing and design, maritime, aerospace, chemical and process and medical...
Code-A-Drone Workshops at Wigan S.T.E.A.M
We was pleased to work with Wigan S.T.E.A.M once again who we previously worked with alongside the Music Matters event at Liverpool Central Library back in July. For this project, we brought our Code-A-Drone workshop to Wigan S.T.E.A.M offices in Wigan Town Centre....
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