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The Red Brick Building is a community hub/ project based in the former Morlands Factory Building. Situated between Glastonbury and Street Somerset.
Over the past six years, The RBBC has become a vibrant community space, offering affordable workspace for social enterprises, an award-winning restaurant, a local FM radio station, venues for education and arts, a holistic health practice, a youth club and an events space for residents in Glastonbury, Street and the wider area.
The transformation of the site began in 2009 when a group of concerned young people squatted the derelict Morlands buildings situated on Morland Road, just outside Glastonbury, in an attempt save two historic buildings from demolition. The Morlands site was the former centre of world famous sheepskin production, which closed in 1982.
Local residents responded, and a Community Benefit Society was set up to develop the vision of a community hub. In December 2010 a community share offer was launched that initially attracted 180 shareholders, raising £105,000, an innovative RBBC investors club bringing together five local investors, who contributed £215,000. This in turn attracted additional local grants. The project attracted over 300 shareholders, with a team of volunteers playing a vital role in the rest.
The Red Brick Building Centre has been awarded a £248,000 grant from the Power To Change Big Lottery Fund on the provision that the project can match fund the amount to address the urgent required works to the derelict adjacent building known as Building C.
