Developing our new building to become an accessible, community hub hosting a range of exciting creative events and activities so that everyone can get involved in arts and culture in Morecambe.
Good Things Collective provide skills, stuff and space to support anyone to be creative. We run exciting, creative projects which are sociable and sustainable, making “good things” happen in Morecambe. We believe that everyone should have access to arts and culture, and that this makes where we live a better place to be. In April 2024, we relocated to a new home on Northumberland Street. This building houses a thriving community of artists, and a growing programme of creative clubs and co-working spaces. Throughout 2025, we’re developing a new community hub including a stage, kitchen, garden and workshop. This will be a place for making things, sharing food, hosting performances and getting together. It’s important that our building is welcoming and friendly. This means we need to fundraise to make our doorways and floors accessible for wheelchair users so that everyone regardless of physical ability can easily navigate our building and participate fully in everything we do.
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In June this year, we signed a 10-year lease, which means that, for the first time, we have a permanent home. We can now grow into more of our building, offering a wider range of activities and reaching more people in the area. We’re excited to really start work on creating a vibrant, colourful, friendly place for anyone to come and get involved in a variety of exciting things. Building our community hub and making sure it’s fully accessible means we can: 1) remove barriers related to getting involved in our creative activities for people of all physical abilities; 2) increase space for our creative activities, opening access to our extension area which will be a place for workshops, performances and events; 3) continue to contribute to Morecambe’s creative public offer, growing our creative programme by bringing more voices into our collective; 4) offer more paid opportunities for people in Morecambe from running our community kitchen, performance and workshop area.
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How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £21,393
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VolunteerGood Things Collective (GTC) is a community-led CIC, providing a home and platform for community-led arts, activism and enterprise. Together, we are working to build a self-sustaining ecosystem of activity that will support inclusive and ongoing social, cultural and economic growth benefitting people in Morecambe.
Our approach is not to work for people but with people, building a vibrant and diverse community of “movers and shakers” who get stuck in and help to make more “Good Things” happen in Morecambe. We are working hard to support our growing creative and socially driven membership to be as collaborative, aspirant and sustainable as possible. Often we do this by working on projects together as we learn a lot from each other when we do, but also, because we understand that together we can achieve far more than we can do alone. ?It also makes for a much more interesting journey.??
Our site houses 15 artists and enterprises, a network of subscribers accessing co-working space, and 36 members who actively support our organisational aims and programme activities. We provide Morecambe residents with affordable access to equipment, spaces and expertise both in the studios as well as our wider community of members and beneficiaries. There is space in our building for people to try out and pursue a variety of creative practices and processes, including painting, printmaking, textiles, crafts, gardening and other forms of socially-engaged activities.
Over the last ten years, we’ve been committed to making “good things” happen in Morecambe. We’ve run exciting events: festivals such as Make My Day and the People’s Bandstand; and “Slow Fridays”, a regular opportunity for like-minded people to get together to share food and ideas.
Project Owner: Good Things Collective CIC The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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