pOSsibility Machines r back!

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Funded on
26 May 2025

We want to bring the pOSsibility Machine back to Oswestry during Summer of Art 2025 and give all ages access to an exciting, vibrant range of pop-up creative activities.

£8,243 Raised of £8,231

39 Backers

100%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 26 May 2025 | Delivered on 30 September 2025

£8,243

RAISED

39

BACKERS

115

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

Largest pledge from Shropshire Council

£2,857

From Shropshire Council

£5

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

500

people have visited this project!

National Lottery Community Fund Awards For All donated £350

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13 Community events created

More about our impact

The environment

I had ambitious plans for this and we did manage to have some conversations around the connections between mess and wildness. I did also deliver a workshop at the Centre for Alternative Technology in the lead up to the project delivery that also developed this conversation. As a part of the project I also worked closely with Oswestry in Bloom and delivered workshops for their well dressing project and was part of the judging days for both Britain in Bloom and Heart of England in Bloom. We also delivered a workshop at Babbinswood Farm involving making paints with natural materials which deepened the conversation.

The local economy

We worked closely with Love Oswestry and Oswestry Bid as well as a number of other partner organisations to make sure our project supported the visitor economy.

Volunteering, jobs & education

We employed two freelance practitioners paying recognised fair rates of pay.

Arts, culture & heritage

We delivered on our aim to create a project for all ages and opening up creativity to all in an accessible and inclusive way at the heart of the town. We also developed a project that enhanced the look of the town centre itself.

Activity, health and leisure

There WAS walking and jumping and digging and pushing and stretching!!

https://ruralarthub.org.uk

Our innovative, interdisciplinary projects bring together creativity, heritage and sustainability to support transformation and inspiration at the heart of community. We are artist-, volunteer- and community-led, committed to supporting the local and regional arts and rural ecology.

Central to our vision as an organisation are the well-documented benefits of open-ended, playful, exploratory creative processes to support resilience and enable a sense of radical transformation. We bring this open-endedness together with heritage arts and crafts activities to provide an innovative, inclusive volunteer, artist and community-led programme that is unique in the local cultural ecology. We aim to focus on and respond to a number of specific challenges and outcomes for the local population, where there is a high proportion of older people experiencing rural isolation and lack of opportunity for young people.

Our aims are based on a vision for a grassroots organisation that is led by local lived experience and opens innovative ways to create a new sense of community and place across different diverse groups who may not otherwise connect. We are, in particular, focussed on responding to rural isolation and working to support new ways to bring all ages together to think about sustainable futures. We aim to engage with all ages through a diverse programming that mixes more accessible and familiar content, including heritage crafts and art, with other more challenging but rewarding activities that introduce new outcomes and unique experiences. We are particularly keen to provide opportunities for intergenerational creativity where, for example, adults can experience the way children create and play. We create opportunities for reflecting on sustainability through a choice of materials or an understanding of the needs of the natural world and the impact of climate change. We are also particularly interested in continuity by providing long-term activities that can help us sustain engagement and really understand the needs and interests of individuals we work with. Through our “Pay What You Can”, taster and free activities we address inclusivity because of economic barriers. We also signpost to community transport providers and subsidise travel costs if needed and possible.

Project Owner: Rural Art Hub The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.