Horsebridge Arts Centre Prepare for Queen's Jubilee

A grant of £9,600 from the Arts Council England’s Let’s Create Jubilee Fund administered by Kent Community Foundation is helping the Horsebridge Arts Centre prepare for their ‘Seventy Years in the Making Tea Party’ Project

The Horsebridge Arts Centre is hosting community art workshops to create a plethora of tea party items to display in their ‘Seventy Years in the Making Tea Party’ exhibition to be held over the Queen’s Jubilee Bank Holiday. They were one of twenty-four organisation across Kent and Medway who received a share of £140,000 to help communities celebrate the Queens Platinum Jubilee and are busy working with the community on an exciting range of crafts.

Hannah Wenn, Artistic Director at The Horsebridge said “Part of our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee project ‘Seventy Years in the Making’ is to create an entirely handcrafted Tea Party and it has been wonderful to see so many people really enjoying getting involved in this community arts project. We have been running a wide variety of free workshops to make our tea party pieces, including mono printing doilies, ceramic vases and bowls, wet felting flowers, pottery painting and weekly crafts sessions with our super team of volunteers. We also wanted to ensure everyone from the area was able to participate, so we created a series of party food craft kits for those who are isolated or unable to visit the centre to make at home, to ensure they can still part of this exciting community project. The work that is being produced is looking fabulous and we are hoping that the exhibition will be a very fitting way for the community to mark this extraordinary celebration.”

Josephine McCartney, Chief Executive, Kent Community Foundation said, “Kent Community Foundation was delighted to administer the Arts Council England’s Let’s Create Jubilee Fund. We received a wide range of exciting applications showing some very innovative ways the community wanted to come together to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee over the Bank Holiday weekend. We estimate the funding we distributed to twenty-four projects across the county will reach thousands of people in Kent and Medway.” 

See all of the organisations that received funding through the Let's Create Jubilee Fund