We enable everyone in our community to explore their craft and creativity. Our work improves skills, forges friendships, and delivers wellbeing benefits for thousands of people each year.
NEW BREWERY HEARTS – creating a community movement!
Imagine this: hundreds of people in need in our community getting free access to creativity, finding warmth, making friends and boosting their wellbeing - we call this New Brewery Hearts.
New Brewery Hearts participants come from the community and are referred to us by our key front-line community partners who work with vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Our partners include Cirencester Foodbank, The Churn Project and Cirencester Housing for Young People (CHYP). Free spaces on our classes can bring a myriad of physical and mental-health benefits; reduced social isolation and anxiety, a sense of fulfilment, achievement and increased confidence.
New Brewery Arts is a registered charity, number: 900036. We have teamed up with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) to process your donations and gift-aid securely.
New Brewery Hearts supporters give a small amount on a regular basis, or a one-off donation. Together this builds to help us deliver our purpose of “craft and creativity for all”.
“As a disabled person on benefits, I could never have afforded this experience, it’s made me feel worthy of something special. It’s made me feel someone believes in me.”
Patrons give more significant contribution to our work each year. New Brewery Hearts Patrons help to give craft and creativity to those who need it most.
“I am passionate about ceramics – it fits in around my responsibilities as a single parent and my chronic health condition (ME). Pottery is the one bit of ‘me time’ I have every week and it keeps me sane. It challenges me and gives me a sense of achievement.”
our Supporters
We would like to warmly thank the organisations and individuals who generously support New Brewery Arts, especially our individual Patrons, Friends and supporters.
RECENT FUNDERS:
K D Winstone Charitable Trust; Arts Council England; The Radcliffe Trust; St James’s Place Wealth Management; The Arts Society; Cirencester Town Council; Schroder Charity Trust; Summerfield Charitable Trust; The Architectural Heritage Fund; .Garfield Weston Foundation, The Finnis Scott Foundation and other generous donors.
PARTNERS:
The Churn Project; Cirencester Food Bank, Cirencester Housing for Young People (CHYP), Bath Spa University.
WHAT'S ON
New Brewery Arts is the place to come and explore the best of British craft and creativity. We have over 100 weekly courses and short workshops on offer each term and regularly changing exhibitions.
blend Café
Blend Café is a casual, welcoming space for any occasion - whether that’s a cosy morning coffee in town, a much-needed nourishing lunch break during the work day, or a quick nibble before a weekend exploring Cirencester and the wider Cotswolds.