On 6th December 2025 one day after The Amulet’s 50th Birthday our 300+ members met at St Pauls Church for our first ever meeting! This was an important thank you, project update and celebration, all members received hand designed and printed share certificates and Babycham to mark the occasion! We also had birthday cake which was cut by our most senior member who is 91 years young!
Special Thanks to Mark Adler for the photos.
News of our potential funding remains on hold. Following July’s election, we are still waiting for news on how the new government will manage community funding. Our bid to purchase and reopen the Amulet had been well received but along with many other community campaigns, we are currently waiting for the bidding process to reopen….
We are delighted to have been awarded a £10,000 development support grant from the Community Shares Booster Fund. This will pay for professional advice on how to set up our community business, to become legally registered and support to launch our community share issue. The programme is funded by Power to Change, Architectural Heritage Fund and Access – The…
A public questionnaire was carried out in December 2023, to find out how the building was used in the past and how everyone would like to see it used in the future. You can find a summary of the over 500 responses to the questionnaire here.
This week volunteers installed a temporary lighting system on the ground floor. These stage lights are hung from existing ceiling structures and will support the programme of pop-up events that will take place this spring and summer. Media students programmed the DMX lights to be controlled using a scene selector, which means that at the…
Calling all members of The Amulet! The first members’ meeting of The Amulet Centre Limited will be held at 4:30pm on Saturday 6th December 2025 in St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Shepton Mallet. The purpose of this meeting is to say a massive Thank You and Welcome to everyone who has supported this campaign to reopen the Amulet…
Coxley Developments Limited, the owner of the Amulet theatre building in Shepton Mallet, has submitted an appeal to overturn an earlier planning refusal for conversion of the Amulet’s stage and dressing rooms into flats. We intend to oppose this planning appeal because it would mean the permanent loss of Shepton Mallet’s only large scale performance…