Building Strong Foundations for Sustainable Creative Spaces & Community Ownership

Schedule

Thu Sep 03 2026 at 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00
Location

PRIMEYARC, NR30 2BG Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom | Yarmouth, EN

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Building Strong Foundations for Sustainable Creative Spaces & Community Ownership
Thursday 3 September
1-5pm
How can creative spaces become more sustainable, resilient and genuinely community-owned?
Join us for a four-hour facilitated workshop delivered by Clare Lucas of Ducks in a Row, alongside her colleague Liz Baalham.
The session will explore the practical and people-focused foundations needed to develop and sustain a creative space, building on our existing values and work, and looking at how we can collaborate to shape its future.
We’ll explore:
🌱 Vision & Sustainability – developing long-term ambitions, identifying opportunities and thinking about what success could look like.
🏠 Operating the Space – understanding the day-to-day responsibilities of running a creative space, including governance, decision-making, operations and shared ownership.
🌿 Strong Foundations for Growth – exploring sustainable approaches to planning, partnerships, audiences, marketing and income generation.
🤝 Building Community Ownership – creating a culture of shared responsibility and finding meaningful ways for everyone to contribute.
💡 Collaborative Working in Practice – identifying individual strengths, forming practical working groups and agreeing ways of working together.
🎯 Priorities & Next Steps – identifying immediate priorities, allocating ownership and agreeing practical actions to keep things moving beyond the workshop.
The workshop will be participatory, practical and focused on building the people and relationships that will help turn operational plans into reality.
Whether you’re interested in governance, programming, communications, fundraising, events, practical maintenance or simply helping to shape the future of PrimeYarc, there will be an opportunity to contribute.
Come along, share your ideas and help us build strong foundations for a sustainable, creative and collectively owned space.
Attendance is free and all are welcome.
This workshop is part of ‘By Doing Together – Shared Stewardship in Practice’, an Arts Council England-funded project providing learning around how to manage independent artist-run spaces, with a particular focus on PrimeYarc.
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Where is it happening?

PRIMEYARC, NR30 2BG Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom, STARBUCKS, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2BG, United Kingdom, Yarmouth

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