Community Projects
We believe that craft should be accessible to everyone. Our priority when we started our building renovations was to create level access to our studios and a fully accessible toilet. Our staff and directors are experienced in working with people with a huge range of needs and abilities. We often partner with other organisations, such as DisAbility Cornwall, Quiet Connections and Camborne Deaf Group, to offer courses, workshops and events tailored to their community's needs and interests. We work independently and with other organisations to offer a range of funded community projects to participate in, where you can meet new people, develop skills and tap into your creativity.
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Catch-up Cuppa
Ongoing
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Initially funded by National Lottery Communities Fund, this project has developed into something we have rolled out to community groups and also included in StreetDraw24. Utilising our Decal Printer we run workshops for people to draw, write or collage something and we scan it, print it, and fire it onto a bone china mug for them to keep forever.
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After School Pottery
March - July 2025
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A sixteen week course of free after school pottery workshops for children aged 9 to 13, funded by Cornwall Community Foundation and our One Hundred Mugs fundraiser.
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Camborne Deaf Group
September 2024 - January 2025
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A pilot programme, funded by Truro Diocese, giving people in Camborne and the surrounding villages who are deaf or living with hearing loss an opportunity to participate in a ten week contemporary crafts course exploring ceramics and warm glass.
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Kerrier Way Design
October 2024 - March 2025
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We are working with Camborne Town Council to produce designs for the new Kerrier Way Green Space, funded by Camborne Town Deal. We ran a community brainstorming day on Saturday 26 October 2024, but you can still share your memories, stories of the site and ideas for the new designs. Just pop in or drop us an email.
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StreetDraw24 2024
September - November 2024
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We hosted Camborne StreetDraw24 again this year and in spite of the weather we had more than thirty participants. The exhibition opened on Friday 25 October 2024 and ran for a week. All drawings were for sale, with all proceeds going to St Petrocs.
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Create Kids Crafts Club
December 2023-March 2024
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Thanks to a very generous donation from an anonymous donor, Feast Cornwall's grant and EH Consulting's match funding we have been able to run an ongoing fully funded weekly craft club for a group of homeschooled children.
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GWR Station Community Mosaic
December 2023-March 2024
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Mosaic Artist Alec Rice was commissioned by Camborne BID with funding from gwruk Customer and Community Fund to produce a mosaic installation for Camborne station. He worked alongside us at the Contemporary Crafts Hub to design and make the tiles needed right here in Camborne.
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Collaboratively, we hosted 2 free community workshops. A tile making day and a tile construction day at Create CIC, where participants could design their own tiles and help assemble the final Mosaic, ready to be installed at Camborne Station.
#IWILL
April-December 2023
The #IWILL movement champions that all children and young people should be supported and empowered to make a positive difference on the issues that affect their lives, their communities and broader society.
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This protest pottery, youth led project sought to address issues the participants have chosen 'Marine Animal Rights' and 'Pretty Privilege and Gender Inequality in Cornish Institutions'. First by developing their debate and pottery skills over the duration of the 10 week program. Finally, building up to their very own Protest Pottery Exhibition at Create Contemporary Crafts Hub.
Camborne Streetdraw24 2023
September - October 2023
This 24 hour Community Art Event was hosted in collaboration with Streetdraw24 CIC. Designed to raise money and awareness for St Petrocs and to encourage participants to see where they live through fresh eyes.
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Drawers took to the streets of Camborne, either independently or on one of our organised draws to capture their surroundings. The Drawings were then donated to Create CIC for our week long exhibition.
Our 28 drawers raised £350! Thank you to everyone who contributed.
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Girls Assemble X Create CIC
March 2023
We teamed up with Girls Assemble to offer a series of free after school workshops to girls aged 9-15. The Girls Assemble Team ran the first wooden frame making workshop. Followed by us teaching the girls lino cutting and tile making! The girls used the frame they made to cut a lino pattern inspired by moving water. They then rolled out a clay tile, impressed the pattern to the tile and cut them into water drop shapes. This was followed by a glazing week and a construction week!
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The Red River Community Mosaic
January - March 2023
Funded by Community Led Local Development and European Regional Development Fund, as part of Phase 1 of our renovation. We opened our doors for an Open Day that enabled people to come in and craft their own tile to become a part of our building forever, as part of the Red River Community Mosaic. The Project is led by local artist Alec Rice and celebrates the natural, social and industrial history of Camborne.
Co-Working Kitchen Space Tiling Project
May - June 2023
Designed by Jane Smith, made by you here at Create Contemporary Crafts Hub. We invited all of our previous glass students to create a tile to decorate our kitchen space. Every tile is unique, but fits perfectly with all the others.
Pot in a Box
April - June 2021
Funded by FEAST Cornwall, this project allowed 100 families in Camborne to explore creating in clay in the comfort of their own home.
Camborne Taster Sessions
May - July 2021
Funded by Camborne Town Council, these introductory sessions gave Camborne residents a free introduction to stained glass, enamelling, glass engraving and mosaics. This was a taste of what the Camborne Contemporary Crafts Hub will offer and allowed Create CIC to hear about their ideas and aspirations for the hub.
Coaster Connections
October 2020 - February 2021
Funded by the National Lottery Communities Fund, this was a project to improve mental health and wellbeing during the 2020 Covid lockdown.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“A really worthwhile community initiative that I’m delighted to support. Through donating my ceramic kiln, tools and materials to Camborne Contemporary Crafts Hub, I am confident that its enthusiastic and professional promoters will introduce the maximum number of people to the empowering creative process.”
Anthony Fagin - artist and writer
