Create . Participate . Connect
Key Strands: Young People, Creative Well-being, Community Action, Artist Support
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.
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This Season...
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, You-create Youth arts exhibition, Revolutions art activities!
Care to Dance
This is a chance for you to express your creativity, learn new skills, and have fun in a relaxed, low-pressure environment.
Word of Mouth: Poetry Open Mic
Perform or just listen to poems, in our welcoming Co-create space.
‘Cool Beans’ artist residencies
Hurrah…come to Co-create Space to the FREE The Cabin creative sessions to: Meet, Make & Mingle sessions.
‘Cotton-on’: Youth Council podcasts
Take a comfy seat in Belper Library and settle in to listen to our three podcast interviews by Belper Youth Council, as part of our Creative Lives award nominated ‘Cotton-On’ project.
Bish Bash Nosh
Eat, meet and create together as part of the Food & Community Hub, in Belper Baptist Church, on Bridge Street.
Bloomin’ Marvellous 2026
Nature-based creative sessions, including a cuppa in a community garden followed by an indoor eco-art activity for adults.
BIG thanks to individuals and organisations that have contributed to our core funding,
to enable us to continue to deliver our charitable work:-
Garfield Weston Foundation
Vernon Robert Bowmer Charitable Trust
Belper Town Council
Kind donations through both in-person philanthropy and our website
More information on our project funding is in our ‘Partners and Funders’
on our ‘Who we are’ page…
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Come along to this great day at Cromford Mills with the first of the year Derbyshire Makes hub event...we will be launching our fun and creative 'Revolutions' workshops...the 'Wheel of Fortune' made by the wonderful apprentices at Engineered Learning Ltd and the brilliant Imagination Train with Arthur's Here and There Portable Railway
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We are looking forward to being in the River Gardens for this Belper 250 event run by Paddle Peak ...obviously our Recycled River Goddess will be with us, encouraging us all to help keep our rivers clean and overseeing all things watery! Hope to have our short film showing on a loop, about the journey the Goddess took with the Friends of the River Derwent Pilgrimage last year.![]()
Belper Town Council Garfield Weston Foundation
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Thanks to our 'Bloomin Marvellous' artist Stories under stones Claire Simpson for another lovely Eco-art wellbeing session, welcoming Spring at Blue Box Belper Alder Centre 💚 A break next month for Easter then back in May 🌞🌺🌿![]()
Belper Town Council Garfield Weston Foundation
We are hosting a public meeting in our Co-create space, to hopefully gather an enthusiastic group together to take on coordinating some well-dressings in the town.![]()
Anyone interested in making a well-dressing (especially this Belper 250 year) then do come along and/or get in touch to use this space for your making. ![]()
Belper Town Council Central Co-op Food @belpergardeningclub Belper Unitarians Blue Box Belper
Big thanks to Unite Community for working with us to offer a Warm Spaces this Winter. The sun is shining and the flowers are blooming...so we are now pausing these sessions to work on our Spring/Summer programs.
