You can hire our accessible white-walled high street gallery space for an exhibition, shoot or event. All income from space hire funds our venue, making our inclusive low / no cost art, craft, music, and wellbeing community programme possible.
Fees to hire of our venue are on a sliding scale to enable us to provide affordable access for artists and practitioners according to need, whilst allocating fair cost recovery to keep our not-for-profit grassroots space doors open and the lights on.
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Hire charges:
£20 p/h standard rate
This is our standard ‘break even’ rate which covers the cost of opening.
£30 p/h for corporates & ‘for-profit’ events
This tier is designed for corporates, organisations with plentiful resources, those making significant profit, and also for those that wish to show us solidarity.
This rate recovers the cost of opening plus adds some extra which goes into the community kitty - this voluntary surplus allows us to save for equipment and maintenance and to subsidise use of the space for low-income / self-funded artists and practitioners so venue costs are not a barrier to participation and experimentation.
Special weekend gallery offer:We are trialling an accessible weekend price to hire our gallery space for £150.
Your work will hang during the week and be seen by 150+ people who come to our regular sessions, then come the weekend, the space is cleared and handed over to you to self-invigilate.
We can quote to support you with invigilation, assistance hanging your show, event support for your private view, marketing and promotion or to provide a projector or PA system.
Bookings need to include set up and pack down time.
Conditions of hire to support access and safety:
INSURANCE:
We require that people who hire our space have their own Public Liability Insurance
You can get good annual insurance as an individual practitioner or an artist organiser running workshops by joining The Artist’s Union for £48 or A/N (also a union for artists) for £38.
SAFETY:
You need to have an active DBS certificate and a clear safeguarding policy if you are going to be working in our space with children or vulnerable adults.
We ask people hosting in the space to ensure your visitors uphold our code of conduct.
We will share our venue risk assessment with you and run you through a safety induction when we handover keys so you are ready to hold responsibility for the safety of your guests during your activity.
We have a blanket policy that nobody is ever turned away for lack of funds and we request that everyone who books the space works with us to create opportunities for inclusion for people who couldn’t otherwise afford to join in.
Facilities include a kitchenette, 8 folding trestle tables and chairs, a sofa, floor rugs, a decent stereo with Bluetooth connection and free WiFi.
Our venue has flat access and a roomy accessible loo with with baby changing facilities.
Email us or send a message on WhatsApp for a quote.
01843 627 111