Halloween Pumpkin Carving Competition 2021

We have a SPOOKTACULAR event for you this October.

Join in our Pumpkin Carving Competition!!

TO ENTER: post a photo of your carving on our Facebook page and like and share this post, to win a great prize, as well as the glory of knowing your pumpkin was the spookiest of them all!

So no matter your age we would love to see you get creative and send us photos of your carved pumpkins.

Make sure you send us your photos between Monday 18th October and Saturday 30th October and follow us on Facebook at: @Prospectcentre
https://www.facebook.com/Prospectcentre

MODEL TOTS TO TEENS FINALS

Competition winners are announced for 2019 Model Tots To Teens and Maria Kamper, centre manager at Prospect Centre, said: “Everyone at the centre is delighted that Model Tots has led to such success and we are delighted that the people of Hull come forward to take part in the competition, which has gone from strength to strength since launching in 2017. We love seeing the families of Hull bring their children to be photographed and we have met some amazing young children. We wish them all the success for the future – last year’s winner Henry Hines, age 11 now has modelling contracts with Next, DW Sports, Aldi and the BBC. Henry is an extremely confident young boy, we will be watching this space for the next Model Tots winners and runners up to make there way in the modelling world and wish them well every success for the future”.

An Unusual Afternoon Tea

Brighten up your Monday by coming to one of our brand new Unusual Afternoon Teas. We have teamed up with Age UK to offer people the chance to try something new, such as chair yoga or walking netball, as well as the chance to meet new people over a bit cake and a cuppa. We welcome everyone of all ages and abilities!

It will be held on the last Monday of each month, between 2pm and 4pm, upstairs in our strEAT Food Court. You never know, you might even find a new passion! Keep your eyes peeled for updates on dates and activities once they have been confirmed.

Gift Wrapping Service

To make your gift shopping experience with us even better and more convenient, local charity Child Dynamix will be on hand to hand wrap your presents.

Thursday 21st December
2pm – 6.30pm.

Christmas at Prospect Centre

We’ve got a fantastic line-up of events and activities at Prospect Centre this Christmas. Here is what you can expect:

Prospect’s Christmas Grotto
A Christmas grotto will return to the strEAT Foodcourt this year, where kids will eat free at selected food operators with every adult spending £5 or more. Admission is free, however donations for Hull Kingston Lions will be welcome. Opening times are 11am – 4pm and dates are as follows:

Sat 2 Dec Sun 3 Dec
Sat 9 Dec Sun 10 Dec
Sat 16 Dec Sun 17 Dec
Thurs 21 Dec, Fri 22 Dec, Sat 23rd Dec

Breakfast with Santa 
Saturday 2nd December

Join Santa for breakfast in the food court for just £2.50 and be the first to visit the grotto afterwards. Book you place at Real Cafe.

Key to Christmas
Saturday 9th and 16th December
The Elf Elder can’t remember which key opens the door to the Elf HQ. If visitors can pick the right one, they will win a prize.

After School Christmas Club
Every Thursday in December, 4.30pm, strEAT Foodcourt
Cosy up on bean bags for a Christmas story plus arts and crafts, then enjoy discounted meals before you head off for late night shopping.

WIN a VIP Christmas Shop
To mark the start of late night shopping, one lucky shopper will be in with the chance of winning a VIP shopping trip. This will include a premium parking spot, a free lunch in the food court and £50 voucher to spend in a retailer of their choice on a date that suits them.

Young runner swaps cross country for cross continent thanks to shopping centre sponsorship

17190784_1299719556781246_8173255122508447054_nA 21-year-old runner is set to take on a gruelling 650-mile challenge to raise funds for a Sierra Leone-based orphanage thanks to a shopping centre sponsorship opportunity.

Prospect Shopping Centre, along with several of its local suppliers, has sponsored David Newlove’s place on the Hope Alive Tour, a nine-day adventure taking place across six cities and two continents organised by Operation Orphan.

Mr Newlove, supervisor at the centre’s Poundland store, is the final runner to be confirmed on the 12-strong relay team, which sets off from the centre’s Brook Street entrance on Saturday 1st April, at 10.30am.

He said: “I couldn’t believe it when I was told I had been chosen. I’ve never been on an aeroplane before and the furthest away from England I’ve been is Amsterdam, so to say I am excited is an understatement.

“I like to keep fit. I really enjoy running and I’m quite strict with my diet, but I never thought I’d ever be running this far. It’s going to be a massive personal achievement for me and a fantastic experience.

“I can’t wait to meet all the other runners and I am counting down the days until I will be on the starting line.”

Hull was chosen as the starting point as the birthplace of William Wilberforce, leader of the abolition of the slave trade movement and known for his humanitarian work in Sierra Leone.

The runners will continue across the cities of Cambridge, Nottingham, Liverpool and London – pioneers of the slavery abolition movement, before flying out to Sierra Leone, continuing in Freetown and finishing at Operation Orphan’s Heaven Homes sanctuary.

Maria Kamper, Centre Manager for Prospect Centre, said: “We are extremely proud to have been chosen as the starting point for the Hope Alive Tour and delighted to have been able to sponsor a local runners place on this once in a lifetime opportunity.

“Thanks must also go to our suppliers – Kingston Cleaning Service, AM Support Services and Total Support Services, for making it possible to fund David’s journey.”

Much loved local fundraiser, 94-year-old Jean Bishop, otherwise known as “The Bee Lady” will be waving the flag to set the runners off on their mammoth journey at the launch, which will also be attended by The High Commissioner of Sierra Leone and other national dignitaries.

Michael Scott, founder of Hope Alive, said: “After almost a year of planning, it is a fantastic feeling that the tour is finally here.

“We have an exceptional team of runners and the number of individuals, businesses and organisations that have got behind this initiative to support in one way or another is just incredible – I cannot thank them all enough.

“All funds raised from The Hope Alive Tour will help provide vital services to orphaned and deprived children and improve their quality of life. Every £500 raised for Operation Orphan covers the monthly living costs of 25 children, so we are grateful for any donations received.”

Flutter of moths at West Street entrance

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A flutter of Gypsy Moths, based on the plane flown by Hull aviatrix Amy Johnson, are now in the air just inside Prospect Centre’s West Street entrance.

The cardboard replicas of the biplanes were completed by local children in celebration of the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Prospect Centre has also sponsored a moth as part of the ‘A Moth for Amy’ project and the Amy Johnson Festival – which will be in the main atrium until the beginning of next year.

Shopping centre beats off stiff competition from businesses across the city to be crowned winner of children’s hospice charity challenge

12208774_10156220341585506_3458937453451427984_nOne of Hull’s busiest shopping centres has won a charity challenge after going head to head with businesses across the city to raise money for children with a wide variety of illnesses in the community.

Prospect Shopping Centre raised more than £1,500 for St Andrew’s Children’s Hospice after completing the Your Inspired Charity Challenge, which, from an investment loan of £100, provides an opportunity for businesses to prove they can outwit each other using their fundraising flair.

The fundraising task not only saw the centre come up against St Stephen’s, but also Tesco, Hemingway Bailey, EYMS and De Vere Urban Resorts to see who could raise the most during October for the Grimsby-based hospice, which provides free care for children with life-limiting illnesses in Hull and the East Riding.

“We are absolutely delighted to have won the charity challenge,” says Lee Appleton, Prospect Centre manager. “Every penny raised for this fantastic cause is extremely precious to the children and families it helps and we’re so grateful to St Andrew’s for giving us such a great opportunity to take part.

“Supporting the community has always been very important to the centre and I’m extremely proud of the Prospect team and our retailers for pulling together to organise an action packed month that we all had stacks of fun taking part in.

“We might be vying for footfall all year round, but businesses in the city are first in line to pull together for the greater community, a quality which makes me proud to work in Hull.”

The Centre’s charitable efforts included tombola’s, raffles and bake sales, followed by a brave member of the security team baring all for a sponsored chest wax, a silent disco and a chilli challenge, where contestants were faced with eating a hot, fiery and nuclear chicken wing in the fastest time possible.

The centre management team also volunteered to be locked up in medieval style stocks to be hit with wet sponges and a 30 ft long, Rugby World Cup-inspired, bungee run had been planned for half term, but despite being rained off Prospect Shopping Centre still managed to race ahead of its fundraising target.

Jane Whenham-White, head of income generation at the hospice, said: “The people in this region have a reputation for being enterprising and go-getting types and yet again they haven’t disappointed.

“We need to raise £3.5m each year to maintain the services within the adult’s and children’s hospices and this is all made possible by their support. Our challenge to those taking part was to be ambitious, bold and daring, be creative and above all, be inspired and those are the exact qualities each and every one showed and for that we are extremely grateful.”

Lee Appleton was presented with the trophy by Dean Windass at the Inspired awards evening, which was held on Tuesday to celebrate the participants achievements.

To sign up to the Your Inspired challenge or to find out more, contact Adrienne Hodgson on 07730 748519.

Shopping centre celebrates frighteningly good footfall figures following Halloween

12193514_847385578692260_5435189877621600725_nProspect Shopping Centre is delighted to report a further increase in Halloween footfall figures this year, following from an exceptionally busy day on October 31st.

With in excess of 31,000 visitors to the Centre on the day, footfall increased by 20.2% on the previous week and was 5.5% up on Halloween 2014. With the events hosted in the Centre’s strEAT foodcourt, CPL Foods benefited from a 45% increase in footfall within their demise on the day and 6%increase in sales, with the highest footfall being achieved at 2pm when the event launched.

Nightmare on Prospect Street was launched last year and was hugely successful, resulting in the campaign being shortlisted for a prestigious Purple Apple award.

The year’s series of events, dubbed Nightmare on Prospect Street II, saw the return of our spooktacularly successful Little Pumpkins Party, a free fancy dress party for children of all ages. The trick or treating around the centre and broomstick flying lessons were just some of the afternoon’s key highlights before darkness fell and things got a whole lot more scary.

We wanted to give the student scare-seekers of Hull a truly original experience – one which they wouldn’t find anywhere else in the city. Drawing on our unique status as being one of Hull’s most haunted buildings, we transformed the strEAT foodcourt into an eerie cinema that played back-to-back horror movies after the centre had closed, right through until the witching hour.

The event was extremely popular, with more than 70 students donning freakish fancy dress crossing the threshold over the course of the evening. From the feedback we received, it appears most people had heard about the event through flyers our marketing team handed out at colleges during the morning and lunchtime rush, as well as all the students who received it under their bedroom doors in their halls of residence at the University of Hull. Others mentioned they had seen their friends were attending through the event we set up on Facebook.

Everyone received free popcorn upon entry and was able to relax on giant beanbags as they settled down for the scary screenings, all of which had been voted for by the public in the weeks running up to Halloween on a Facebook poll. The event saw us team up with CPL Foods to offer a series of £10 sharing meal deals in strEAT foodcourt, as well as a KIDS EAT FREE* incentive for children accompanied by an adult purchasing a full price meal.

It was an action packed day to say the least and we are already gathering very positive feedback from retailers, who noticed how busy their stores were as a result of the Halloween events!

Hull School of Art & Design Opens “Pop Up” Shop in the Prospect Shopping Centre!

To celebrate the annual Hull BID Fashion Week, the Prospect Shopping Centre is handing over one of its units to post graduate students from the Hull School of Art and Design, giving them the chance to run their own “Pop Up Shop”.

The students, who are all studying Fashion and costume design courses, will be opening the shop on Friday 18th April, giving shoppers a glimpse of their work and the students a first-hand experience of working in the retail industry.

Half of the unit, which is located opposite Goldsmiths, will be dedicated to the work of these up-and-coming designers, giving them the opportunity to showcase, and possibly sell, their creations.

The other half of the unit will be used as a Charity Swap Shop.  You will be able to donate your old clothes, which the students from HSAD will transform into beautiful new outfits.  These will then be sold with all proceeds going to charity.

The HSAD Pop Up Shop will be open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10am to 4pm for four weeks.

For further information please call Prospect Shopping Centre on 01482 324619.