Community Project
Making Space is working with Planet Aware to deliver a year-long project focussing on reusing, upcycling and reinventing items to minimilse textile waste!
Doesn’t have to be yesteryear, yesterday will do! Do you have memories of Leigh Park Gardens? Ones from the last decade or even just last Monday?Do you recall the Six Penny Six or have newspaper cuttings about the lightning tree? Do remember the picnics in the summer of 2018? We’d love to hear of them […]
Following the success of our popular ASTM sessions, we are launching a brand new ASTM YOUTH project funded by the Big Lottery Fund. These sessions will take place fortnightly at Making Space and we can take up to 12 young people per session. The sessions are suitable for local creative young people aged 10-14. ASTM […]
Learning Through Craft Tuesday 3 July 2018 4pm – 6.30pm The Westgate School Cheriton Road, Winchester, SO22 5AZ Tickets | FREE but please book. Learning Through Craft is a pilot project which took place in 2017/18 that aimed to ignite teachers’ interest in and understanding of the value of craft in children’s creative, cultural and […]
Are you a young person aged 11-25 with an interest in heritage, craft, film & photography? We’re looking to work with a group of local young people on an exciting project designed, lead & participated by young people! Memories & Keepsakes will look at local heritage, keepsakes that people treasure and the memories associated with […]
Making Space is looking to involve young people in planning, making choices and being part of a new creative project in Havant. We’d like to invite any young people who’d like to get involved to come to an ‘ideas session’ with Making Space and the Leigh Park Big World Impact project run by Active Communities Network. […]
Making Space has been working with Glenwood School on a project called Changing Shapes. The project enables pupils to make choices, shape ideas and learn new skills through a series of creative workshops with local professional artists and makers. The project will promote personal and social development through participation in the arts. Funded by the […]
On The Street Where We Live In 2011, the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded Making Space a grant of £50,000 for a project that explored and celebrated life in Leigh Park, from its early development as a housing estate in the 1940s, right up to the present day. The project included an ongoing programme of events […]
Make Your Mark was a partnership project organised by Making Space and Big World Impact, with support from Artswork, The Asda Foundation and The Police & Crime Commissioner. The project was focussed around a series of creative workshops for at risk and vulnerable young people in Leigh Park aged 9-19 from June – November 2015. The two-hour sessions […]
In the Summer of 2015 Making Space met with D-Day Museum to discuss a textile project which would inspire local communities and help raise awareness of D-Day Museum’s collections and The Overlord Embroidery. Director of Making Space, Lynne elaborates, “We’re very pleased that D-Day Museum, Portsmouth commissioned us to organise this project. The courageous story […]