Centre Address
Able 2, Station Road, Forest Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne NE12 9NQ & Unit 17 Evans Business Centre,Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate,North Shields. NE29 7SN
Karten Centre Manager
Steven Laws
Contact Details
Phone:
0191 2381300
E-mail:
Host Organisation
The Percy Hedley Foundation
Host Organisation Address
Hampeth Lodge,Station Rd, Forest Hall. Newcastle Upon Tyne. NE12 8YY
Karten Centre Website
Centre Established
October 2008
Services/focus of the Karten Centre
At the Orion Site We offer large format printing, garment, mug & gift printing. Handmade cards, gifts, business stationery and design work. We create short films, animation, podcasts and all other kinds of commissioned film, music and media enterprises.
We have the following departments at the Forest Hall site - Art, Ceramics, Living Skills,Horticulture and Drop in IT facilities, we also have a sports outreach department
Clients
We support people with a wide range of physical and learning disabilities ranging in age from 18 - 80.
Disabilities
We provide care and support to people with a wide range of physical and/ or learning disabilities including Cerebral Palsy, Ataxia and Epilepsy. We support people with sensory and cognitive impairment and people with acquired brain injury.
Technology used in the Karten Centre
- Laptops and pcs
- Cameras and recording equipment
- Portable Tascam
- Green screen technology
- Projector and screen
- Large format printer
- T shirt press
- Printers
- Mug press
Assistive Technology
- iPads
- Kaos music software
- Soundbeam equipment and technology
- Voice assisted software
- Garageband, launchpad, thumbjam & mixmuse apps
- Sonar,Reason, Ableton, Musicmaker, Ejay, Acid
- Adobe editing software
- Linear and Non Linear editing equipment
- VOCA hardware and software
Karten Centre Staff
Between 50-75 Staff in Forest Hall
Between 8-11 staff in Orion
Karten Centre Hours
Monday - 8.45-4.15
Tuesday - Friday - 8.45-4.00
Services offered to the Network
Large format printing
Web design
Short film recording, production and editing
Music production and recording
Radio production and Podcasting
Bespoke Arts, crafts and Ceramics
Horticultre Items such as Hanging baskets, willow sculptures etc
Partnerships
Chase Park Festival - live events,recording and performance
Generator - artist development project, training workshops eg digital marketing.
Additional Information
We are currently Holding and Open Studios event on 24.6.17 at the Forest Hall service which will showcase the expertise of our staff and service users and the bespoke items they create within the Departments, these will be on sale.
Music and food opportunities will support the day also