New Backing From C20

Our community share offer is making good progress and we now have 142 members, who have invested a total of £70,750, so we are on track to pass our minimum target of £100,000 and then head towards our optimum target before the offer closes on 31st October 2025.   This significant community investment shows strong grassroots…

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…

Last week members of The Amulet Centre voted to elect the society’s first board of Directors, these 10 directors will lead the project and run the community benefit society, now we have a board, volunteers can get involved with working groups. You can read all about our new board below Get in touch to find…

A planning application for seven flats in the Amulet has been turned down at appeal. The application was originally submitted in 2020 and was refused by Somerset Council last year, with an appeal against that decision being dismissed by the national planning inspector this week. The flats were to be located in the Amulet’s main…

Our project had a boost this week with the donation of 400 theatre seats from Cambridge Arts Theatre.  They will be used in the short term for temporary pop-up events and when we own the building, they will be installed in the auditorium. The Amulet’s original seating was destroyed by a water leak some years…

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…