Shepton Mallet Lantern Festival Workshops & Christmas Sunday Market

We are excited to have been awarded a £10,000 development support grant by the Architectural Heritage Fund. We will use this to pay for a professional project viability study, to make sure that our plans are commercially viable. AHF normally support historic building projects, so it is good news that they see sufficient value in…

Latest figures for our community share offer are:207 members £97,850 invested The response to the campaign, pop-up events and the community share offer has been fantastic but with only two weeks to go we really need as many members as possible to send the clearest message to funders that local people are invested in the future of…

After an incredibly successful two months of events, we had to follow up with something even BIGGER! So we’re pleased to announce our pop-up events will be extended through until the end of September to support our community share offer! With More Live music, More Cinema and More community events we’re going all out to…

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…

The Labour government has announced that they are “minded to cancel” the Levelling Up Fund for Culture, that included £5m for capital cultural projects in Mendip. Our project to purchase and reopen the Amulet had been shortlisted for a share of this fund in June 2024. Instead, they say there will be a new scheme…

Thank you to all who supported our pop-up events over the last few months and to our army of volunteers who made it possible. Bringing this building back into the community is absolutely vital to securing a better future for the town. Our top quality live performance events were all sold out and prove the…