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A well-established community arts charity based in Belper, Amber Valley in Derbyshire, since 1983. We work with a wide variety of groups and partners across the region, delivering quality, diverse, arts workshops, projects, events and support, particularly with those at risk of social exclusion.
Any queries, please get in touch
This Season...
World of WORDS
back by popular demand…a 3 x week writing course with the wonderful Leanne Moden (Book your bargain place asap) and a free spoken word open-mic with Daron Carey.
THRIVE : Youth Arts Club
Our Youth Art Club in our Co-create space is continuing for at least two more terms! Different art mediums will be explored led by professional artists. FREE but must book via our online form as per poster details.
Bloomin’ Marvellous 2025
Nature-based creative sessions, including a cuppa in a community garden followed by an indoor eco-art activity for adults.
Belper Arts Trail
Come and immerse yourself in art in our Co-create space over the bank holiday Arts Trail weekend. We will have a fabulous artist market, Bloomin Marvellous project exhibition, Murmuration art activity…and you may catch the ‘Gold start Gal’ here and there!
Derbyshire Makes
We worked with 4 x amazing artists and 100’s of people over two weekends – one in Heanor Market Place and one in Cromford Mills, with Derbyshire Makes. Watch out for our amazing Recycled River Goddess coming to a river near you with a ‘keep our waters clean’ message…
FREE Easter activities
Lots on offer over the Easter holidays in Heanor, Cromford, Belper and Ilkeston!
Spring exhibition Ilkon Gallery : Bloomin’ Marvellous
Help us celebrate Spring and respecting the earth in our installation at the Ilkon Gallery as part of their Spring Exhibition….created with Bloomin Marvellous participants and #Sharethelove Climate Coalition campaign workshops.
Bish Bash Nosh
Eat, meet and create together as part of the Food & Community Hub, in Belper Baptist Church, on Bridge Street.
BIG thanks to individuals and organisations that have contributed to our core funding,
to enable us to continue to deliver our charitable work:-
Vernon Robert Bowmer Charitable Trust
Belper Town Council
Big Give pledgers
Kind donations through both in-person philanthropy and our website
More info on project funding/logos on our ‘About’ page…
Facebook Posts
Over the next few weeks, after several full weeks of delivery, we are taking a break, interviewing and getting ready for Belper Arts Trail . Do pop in to our Co-create space though, to see the glory of our creations from this Derbyshire Makes weekend at Cromford Mills with The Making House and @rosemarytimms. Also, get in touch soon if you want to book a FREE creative residency slot in our awesome Central Co-op Food space! Eleanor Parkin Belper Town Council
Pop on down to Cromford Mills this weekend to help us celebrate all things water with DerbyshireMakes . Join our fantastic artists - Anna Roebuck will be there all weekend to create a River Goddess sculpture out of recycled plastics...and Rosemary Timms sharing her experience in you making your own mini well-dressings. Thanks @ellieelizabethparkin for supporting.
Join us this weekend at Cromford Mills as we take part in another Derbyshire Makes with the most brilliant Anna Roebuck The Making House and help her create a River Goddess from recycled materials...a statement piece about our unclean waters/waste! 🩵 Lots more going on all weekend and it's FREE!
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TOMORROW 11am - 1pm just pop-in (NO need to book) for your chance of a 30minute brilliantly-fun Slot to Plot in our Central Co-op Food Co-create space, Strutt Street in Belper!![]()
Chris Lewis-Jones (aka Nu-Urban Gardeners’) says: plots are limited, so it’s ‘first come first served’...each 'gardener' is allocated a plot, which they are free to occupy for up to 30mins. Gardeners who successfully complete a garden design that explores the theme (Spring) and is free of NUG contraventions, will be presented with a prize...a limited edition Nu-Urban Gardeners Pencil! Points will be awarded for plots that display evidence of post-modern irony, climate awareness, folkloric sensibility and/or surreal flights of fancy. Points will be deducted from gardens that lack adequate scope for biodiversity. ![]()
Belper Town Council
Join us THIS Friday in the fabulous @ilkestoncontemporaryarts Ilkon Gallery to see our 'Bloomin Marvellous' Spring exhibition (amongst an amazing art collection) and drop in 10.30am - 12.30pm there for our free eco-art workshop with claire simpson
