Farewell from the Headstart Project

The Hat Factory Arts Centre Luton was home to the Headstart Project. For more information on the hat Factory, visit their website at www.thehatfactory.org
Headstart Business Centre opens offering open plan units and dedicated office Suites for small Creative Businesses
Headstart office walls showing samples of what can be produced using in house printing facilities.
HeadJamz Poster. Music events started and managed by Headstart in September 2004 and still continue today.
Phil Knight part of HeadJamz houseband Nemo at one of the many HeadJamz nights at the hat Factory.
Wired, One of HeadJamz performers at Luton International Carnival 2009.
Dario playing at Luton Cultural Services Trust 2nd Anniversary celebrations in March 2010. Dario is one of hundreds of Headstart Artists that have been given the opportunity to perform through either HeadJamz or partner events.
HeadJamz attracted local university students to perform at the hat Factory.
More HeadJamz performers
Celebrate Awards 2007: James Rangel, Project Manager for Headstart picking up an Highly Commended Award on behalf of Headstart client Ian Holohan. On the right the University of Bedfordshire also collecting an award.
Headstart HD Camera on loan to support Luton Arts Development Team at Luton Mela Talent Quest
Luton Mela Talent Quest: Band Riot Plan take to the stage to see if they can win a chance to perform at the Luton Mela 2006. This event was supported by Headstart who also provided one of the Judges for the panel.
Headstart Artist George Anthony performing at the launh of Headstart CD launch Live in Luton in October 2006.
Jan 2007: A Headstat client picks up his Certificate for Environmental Awareness as part of the Headstart Training Programme.
Apple Logic course being delivered in Oct 2007 under the Headstart 2 banner.
Dec 2007: The Film Mad, Sad and Bad filmed largely in Luton saw the production team based at Headstart Business Centre at the hat Factory.
Creative Futures event received funding from Luton Borough Council to support the Creative Sector. Headstart provided an afternoon of seminars, workshops, 121 advice with support from local agencies from around the region. A very successful and exhaustive day.
Barnfield College Exhibition June 2008. Headstart using its large scale prints was able to produce these large peices of art which were in some cases 3 metres high.
Paul Blackwell as part of the Headstart Gallery Exibition 2009
Headstart supporting the local Arts and Crafts community.
Headstart Provided support for local Artists by offering them free gallery space and free marketing support.
Just one of many the courses being offered by Headstart 2.
Creative Vibes Magazine was launched in April 2009 to replace Headstart Newsletters. Originally planed as a one off, it received funding for a further two issues.
CreativeVibeHub opens in April 2010 offering the most flexible drop in packages in the country!
Luton Summer Festival 2010 in St Georges Square HeadJamz artists performing at Luton Summer Festival 2010 in St Georges Square
Creative Vibe Hub facilities included specialist printing and video production equipment as well as hot 6 hot desking units.
Headstart in the Community Headstart in the community: Headstart takes part in a Business and Enterprise Fair at Luton Central Library on Thursday 25th November 2010.
Tom was with Headstart from March 2006 until August 2006 and supported clients with Business and Marketing plans as well as to deal with the organised chaos that was the Headstart drop in Centre. Thank you Tom!
A BIG thanks to the interns: Maurits was with Headstart from September 2006 until mid January 2007 and saw the most businest part of the project where the end of Headstart ONE came to a climatic end, Headstart two had begun in October 2006 and the launch of Headstart 'Live in Luton' CD. Maurits was heavily involved all aspects of the project and made a great/positive impression on all clients. Thank you Maurits
A BIG thanks to the interns: Ruben joined Headstart in September 2008 until the end of January 2009. Ruben assisted Headstart and took charge of client support and was one of our most popular interns. A football fan as you can see from the pic he spent some of his spare time visiting football grounds like the Emirates stadium shown here. Thank you Ruben!
A BIG thanks to the interns: Stephanie joined Headstart in January 2009 for a 3 month period. Here she is representing Headstart at Marsh Farm business support event. Thank you Stephanie!
A BIG thanks to the interns: Coraline joined the team in Sept 2009 and stayed until Feb 2010. Coraline has a great sense of humour and supported the project and clients very well. She also did a lot of research for the Creative Vibes Publication. Thank you Coraline! Also a thank you to Bilal (sorry don't seem to have a picture) who joined us for 5 months from January 2010 until May 2010.
A BIG thanks to the interns: David joined us in August 2010 until December 2010 and assisted greatly in the split in the Headstart Project and subsequent support in the training project. David spent the first 6 months of 2011 studying in San Francisco before returning to his home university in the Netherlands. Thank you David!