ESSENTIAL TOGETHER FOR CINEMA
BRINGING THE CINEMA EXPERIENCE TO RAINBOWS Together For Cinema (TFC) Founder, Ian Morrish, provides EI with the full story behind its latest project, recently featured on BBC News. lighting to help create a wonderful ambience and visual experience. It was fortunate that we already had good contact with an installer local to Loughborough, this being Decorum Technology. Gary Mills and his team are hugely supportive of TFC and had, in fact, project managed an installation at Acorns Children’s Hospice in Walsall in 2014. Gary visited Rainbows and viewed the room for himself. Having discussed with the Rainbow’s team what could be done, they were all happy to commit the room to a full cinema scape room, as opposed to a multi-functional room doubling, or even trebling, up as anything Rakhee Thakrar, Anne-Marie Rosak and Ian Morrish on opening day
Rainbows Children’s Hospice is located just
In August 2021 Rainbows contacted me
south of Loughborough, and only a few minutes
and were amazed to hear about what we could
off Junction 22 of the M1.
do and so the journey began.
In 1989, Harry and Gail Moore’s five-
Images of the proposed room were sent
year-old daughter, Laura, sadly died after a
down to us and, even though the room was
battle with Leukaemia. She had three years of
relatively small, it was perfect for turning into
treatment, including a bone marrow transplant
a cinema room to hold anything up to about
from her twin brother, Kit. Laura’s favourite
eight to ten people.
else. This made the whole project a little more exciting for us and enabled us to consider more immersive products to really add to the cinema experience. Thanks must go to Control4 (Snap One), Denon (Sound United), Epson, HDANYWHERE, KEF, Orluna, Penn Elcom, Projecta, QMotion, Sony and Starscape. Great brands with great products and a real desire to help progress our work. Gary Mills, Director, Decorum Technology, comments, “Working at Rainbows Children’s
thing in the world was a rainbow and her parents
I visited Rainbows at the end of September
wanted to create something special in her
and met with Kate Golding, the Head of
by the hospitality of the Rainbows team who
memory – which is how Rainbows was born.
Organisational Giving, and some of her
couldn’t do enough to help us and make sure
Today, Rainbows supports over 300 children
care colleagues. Having viewed the room it
we had a cup of tea and a biscuit whenever
and young people living with life-limiting and
was clear to me that we could deliver a pretty
required! Of course the main focus was to
life-threatening conditions.
‘standard’ TFC installation, but with extra
create as good a cinema room space as we
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Hospice was made all the more pleasurable
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