Arts & Crafts Club

The Arts and Crafts Club sessions take place every Thursday.

mosaic’s Arts and Crafts Club started in 2007 with Arts Council funding; the Club proved to be a great success because there were a lot of disabled people who wanted to improve their skills in arts and crafts, who wanted to meet up with like-minded people and who wanted to have the benefits of working with a professional artist. Once the funding finished in April 2009, mosaic decided to continue this service and enable disabled people to use their direct payments or personal budgets to pay for a place at the Arts and Crafts Club. This has worked really well.

The Arts and Crafts Club meets on a Thursday morning between 10am and 1pm. It now meets at Tudor Centre, Bewcastle Grove, Leicester.

Members of the Arts and Crafts Club use a number of different methods to develop their art work with the help of the professional artist. Some members have displayed their work at exhibitions and have sold pieces of work, others just enjoy visiting the exhibition. There is also the opportunity to to have work on display at Oak Spinney Park.

We have also run an Art Group on a Monday for people with learning disabilities. We have had to stop this group for the time being because members do not have Personal Budgets yet and thus the Group is unfunded. We want to get this group started again so if you know someone with learning disabilities who wants to join an art group and has a Personal Budget, or is willing to finance themselves, get in touch with Katie Barradell on 0116 2318720 or the Development Worker on 07912 480 954

Updated on 5 September, 2011