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The Sidwell Street Workshop
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Aim
To build a community workshop, where people from all backgrounds can come together to make stuff, make friends & learn or pass on skills.
We are seeking your help to build The Sidwell Street Workshop, a new space at our busy community centre where we will be able to offer a whole range of inclusive arts and crafts activities – traditional wood-working projects, pottery classes, willow-work, jewellery making, book-binding, mosaicking, and much more.
St Sidwell’s Centre is a thriving community hub near the centre of Exeter: an independent charity dedicated to
strengthening the local community and promoting inclusion. We’ve got a busy community café where anyone can come to eat and drink and relax, or learn to cook, volunteer and share cookery skills. Everything is homemade and we even make our own bread, and pickles and jams.
In our city centre vegetable garden we’re piloting a food waste composting scheme which turns all our food waste into useable compost in just a few weeks. Our city centre gardens – once a graveyard – have won four Outstanding awards from the Royal Horticultural Society in just 4 years.
Inside the centre we’ve got rooms that were used last year by more than 200 local organisations. Everything that we do and offer relies on the hard-work of just a small handful of paid staff and a huge team of dedicated volunteers. Our welcoming Volunteering and Work- Experience Programme is open to everyone – regardless of ability, background or experience. St Sidwell’s is a unique place where everyone works together and everyone looks after each other.
But we need more space...
The Sidwell Street Workshop will offer not only the space needed, but the flexibility for more creative projects. Please help to make this exciting development a reality. We have already secured planning permission for The Sidwell Street Workshop and this crowdfunding campaign (which is part of a longer and larger fundraising campaign for the construction of the workshop) will help us move onto the next stage – enabling us to develop the detailed construction plans and to carry out archaeological and conservation surveys.
Devon and Cornwall Police - Community Resilience Fund has provided £1,000 of match funding
This project successfully funded on 22nd January 2019