Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland

Holywood is a seaside town within a few miles of Belfast, with a tradition of speciality retail, professional services, art galleries and a range of cultural activites including annual music festivals..

This is a 'Global District' for Holywood Residents, community groups and businesses to come together to promote all aspects of their town using all available media. When current, information will appear below, but all content relating to Holywood can be viewed using the "all posts" tab. Using the interactive tab will bring up any supporting interactive maps or applications that support anything your are reading or viewing.

SUPPORTING MAPS / GRAPHICS / 'APP INTERFACES' :

The supporting maps and graphics we are using are by local artist Ralph Dobson. The streetmap was commissioned in association with Bangor and Holywood Town Centre Management for a town based "pull out" map, and the Holywood Townscape was commissioned by us and carefully scoped with the artist to provide a more "virtual" as well as artistic experience of Holywood. Explicitly we wanted to exploit the potential for animation and other applications such as "roll over media".

Please do not download these graphics and use them except to link to Global District applications by us or by members. Code for embedding these is available when you log in and is distributable according to the member's terms. See also our terms of use. In this way everyone can add value.

Holywood 'Goes Global' was first set up in association with the Holywood Chamber of Commerce and was sponsored by The Holywood Exchange. Before that it was known as "holywood online". Ongoing development has been significantly sponsored by Dunlop Homes (view profile) with a view to making this an open platform for businesses in, and the community of Holywood. The most recent revamp in 2014 takes us much closer to the original goal of a universal plug in for the town using shared maps, animation and all forms of media for creative applications, each building on what has gone before.

HolywoodGoesGlobal lets you promote your news, events, products and services in Holywood, North Down, Northern Ireland.

Everything is mapped using the Global District application and internet based maps: Google Maps.  Original artwork by local artist Ralph Dobson provides a "Townscape" which can be shared, not only to support events and media on Holywood GoesGlobal, but also on members' web sites to create a vibrant community network.

All content is geocoded using the Google Map engine - that is businesses, event locations, and any media uploaded by members such as photos or video.

If you are connected with Holywood as a business, club or organisation please sign up and post your news. If you are person - sign up as a friend, and build a network of favourites ... how you benefit from Holywood GoesGlobal depends very much on who you are or what you do, but we aim to benefit everyone who participates.



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Posts can be places, things, events, news, special offers in Holywood... with uploaded video, audio, photos, slideshows, interactive maps and graphics to support.

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Event:16/05/2013

... oh, and quite a few awkward obstacles to get over. For more details contact Neill Grainger at Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Tel 028 90680758 neillgrainger 'at' cancerfocusni.org (replace 'at' with @!)
Holywood Shared Town Consortium
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Art and Home and Holywood Centra have come together to bring the people of Holywood a World Record Attempt at the longest simultaneous Christmas Cracker Pulling Chain - in conjunction with the Salvation Army we will be using this event to help collect funds for the homeless during Christmas and the
Holywood Shared Town Consortium
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Event:28/03/2013

HOLYWOOD BUY LOCAL MEETING AT THE HOLYWOOD LIBRARY

The Holywood Buy Local campaign is gaining momentum and we have 50 businesses to date that have made a financial pledge to the campaign.We have taken note of comments and feedback from businesses that we have met and believe that the majority you are more in favour of the production and distributio...
Holywood Shared Town Consortium
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Event:28/03/2013
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CAMPHILL COMMUNITY GLENCRAIG: FOREST SCHOOL NETWORK EVENT.

On Saturday the 20th April 2013 the Camphill Community Glencraig will host a Forest School Network Event.The purpose of the event will be to share with people the value of the natural environment and particularly woodlands in the development of resilience for children, young people and adults. Terr...
Camphill Community
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Profile:07/02/2013

I work as a coach, consultant, facilitator and researcher. I specialise in the areas of culture change, education and learning, healthcare, business, arts, ideation, creativity, emotional climate, cultural heritage, social innovation, and community development.I deliver enriched CDP programmes base...
Anthony McCann
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News Item:24/12/2012

Well it was not quite a world record but it was a Northern Ireland one! Everybody who participated enjoyed the "CRACK" ( pun intended) and it was great fun. Next Christmas we really will get that world record. We need everyone to come along and help out.
Holywood Men's Shed
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News Item:08/12/2012

Over the past year Holywood has witnessed a growth in community spirit, identified in many ways at our Town Centre community events, with an impressive attendance at Mayday despite the inclement weather, over 4000 people attending the first ever Culture Night with 100 local acts and over 70 bus...
Holywood Shared Town Consortium
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Event:03/12/2012

SUNDAY SERVICE

Come and join us at our regular worship services, children welcome and catered for.
First Presbyterian Non-subscribing Church
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Profile:01/12/2012

The Church is Presbyterian both in organisation and discipline, but Non-Subscribing or 'Free' as regards its attitude to doctrine, and thus a stand-alone denomination in its own right.The Womens League provides tea and coffee on Saturday mornings in the Schoolroom below the church from 10am -12noon...
First Presbyterian Non-subscribing Church
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HOLYWOOD CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

HOLYWOOD CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

 
Holywood Shared Town Consortium
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