Aim: £2,300 for our ground floor & garden furnishings - providing a creative & welcoming space for our community to Enjoy, Create & Participate
OUR STORY AT 70 YEARS OLD
1946
On October 10th, local arts patron Gwen Pollard opened Bridgwater Arts Centre in two Grade 1 listed Town houses. It was the first Arts Centre in Britain to open with Arts Council support and one of the oldest Arts Centres in the UK.
2011
After the cut of regular local Council funding of £100, 000 a year, all 5 staff members at BAC were made redundant.
2012
We stayed open as a totally voluntary run Arts Centre. This inevitably had consequences on audience numbers and degradation on the building.
2013
The Town Council offered financial support towards a staff member – Kate Goodale, now the Artistic Director. From this point the Arts Centre has continued to grow in staff numbers, audience numbers and confidence.
2015
We celebrated this growth with a successful street party 'Bridgwater's Big Bash' raising our profile significantly in the town and proving to key town Council members and our community we were moving in the right direction of growth
2016
This year we are celebrating our 70th anniversary and were successful in gaining funding to renovate the ground floor of the Arts Centre from it's current tired state. We are crowd funding for the interiors for the ground floor and a refreshment area.
WHAT WE ARE DELIVERING
At 70 years we are waving goodbye to our time of crisis and saying hello to the developing future of BAC with a fresh face to serve our ever growing communities needs and to continue to provide a space to Enjoy, create and participate!
We have successfully gained funding from Viridor to make the desperatley needed renovations to our ground floor areas but need to buy the interiors for BAC's tired entrance ways, gallery, kelting room, garden and a fully furbished refreshment area with self service coffee machine and homemade cake offering. We will deliver this with our hard working team of dedicated volunteers!
WHAT REACHING OUR TARGET WILL GET US
Gallery - seating areas to enjoy art and relax with a coffee:
Self service coffee machine
Chalk board Cake stands
X1 Statement armchair
x2 Statement lamp
x6 Georgian chairs
x3 Stand up/ or table lamps
x1 Georgian rectangular pouf
x2 Stand up plants
x3 Scafolding shelves
x1 Large kilner tap jar
x20 Mixed small picture frames to upcycle
x4 Tins chalk paint & wax
x2 Pairs curtains
x2 Curtain poles
Entrance:
Feature chandelier materials for DIY
x1Light shade
Vinyl wall mural
x1 Large blackboard
x6 Poster Holders
x1 Donations box
MDF for signage
Wooden beading and glues
Garden - Introducing comftable and welcoming seating areas into our ever complimented and well used 'secret' garden courtyard:
x8 Waterproof cushions
x3 Waterproof rectangular bench cushions
x5 Chairs
x2 Small tables
x3 Tins chalk paint + wax
x3 Canope cover sails
Kelting Room - making our traditional georgian kelting room fully functionable for a variety of community groups:
x12 medium modern georgian style chairs with wooden arms
x1 small table
x1 modern Georgian style table to match chairs
x1 bookcase
x1 noticeboard
Including all crowdfunder fees that occur from the funder