Help Us Settle Into Our New Home

Aim

Ardour Academy is settling into a new, more accessible community space in Cardiff. Help us cross the finish line.

Help Us Settle Into Our New Home

Ardour Academy is moving into a new home in central Cardiff  and we need your help to get it ready.

This new space is a big step forward for us. It's more wheelchair accessible, better connected by public transport, and better suited to the kind of pioneering, accessible creative and wellbeing work we exist to deliver. Making this move happen has meant investing the majority of our reserves, and we're now turning to our community to help us finish the job.

One of our final essential costs is an outside sign and coffee station; a welcoming first impression for everyone who walks through our doors, and a simple space for connection before and after sessions. Together, these will cost approximately £5,000.

We're aiming to raise £2,500 of this through our online fundraising initiatives, with the remainder coming from a series of fundraising activities over the coming months.

Every contribution, however small, brings us closer to a space that reflects the values we hold dear: accessibility, inclusion, and community. If you're able to support us, whether by donating, sharing our fundraiser, or getting involved in one of our upcoming events — we'd be so grateful.

Thank you for helping us build a space where everyone belongs.

" Ardour Academy is a not-for-profit creative community and wellbeing hub, founded in Cardiff in 2018. We connect people through the arts offering dance, drawing, yoga, music, and creative workshops in a warm, welcoming space led by our small but dedicated team. Queer-led and proudly inclusive, we specialise in reaching communities who often face barriers to creative and wellbeing spaces: Deaf and hard of hearing participants (with BSL communication support built into our sessions), LGBTQIA+ communities, neurodivergent individuals, and people experiencing financial hardship, who can access donation-based sessions and Hardship Passes. Projects like Butterfly Soup bring movement, visual art, poetry, and BSL together for participant-led creative programmes, Everything we do is rooted in one belief: that everyone deserves the chance to have access to high quality creative opportunities and feel part of a community."

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 12th August 2026 at 5:44pm