The promotion ot the arts in the local community and advancement of the aesthetic education of the public, particularly the young and disadvantaged , is part of our objectives.
Our 2025 Community Grant from The Arts Society has been donated to Felbridge Primary School to purchase three cameras for the students use. We await some of their photographs with interest.
In 2024 we have donated £250 to Peanut ward at The Queen Victoria Hospital for the children's art work and therapy, and a further £200 to Koeslter Arts for next years awards.
Our 2024 AS Community Grant for £250 has been given to Turners Hill CofE School to support their Theologically-based Christian Vision Day on Tuesday 11th June. We had a great visit to see the children's artwork as they produced it working on their project and again to see it finished and hanging on display in the entrance hall. To see the finished artwork look in the Gallery page.
Koestler Arts is a charity that supports prisoners to use their creative skills through Art.
In 2024, we again sponsered an award for Craft work . The winner was from HMP Lewes entitled 'Coffee Wolf' pictured on our Gallery page.
In 2023 the winning artists work was 'Warm and Cosy' and was exhibited at the Southbank Centre in the 2023 exhibition 'In case of Emergency' curated by the award winning poet Joelle Taylor To see the winning exhibit Click here
Summer 2021 we sponsored an award for craft artwork using a grant from The Arts Society . The winning artist’s work was ‘Gaudi styled stationery stand’ produced by a prisoner at Lewes prison. The winners work was being exhibited on the Southbank Centre in the 2021 ‘The I and the We exhibition.’
To see the email received telling us of the award Click here To see the winning exhibit Click here
Crawley Down CofE School- We used our Community Grant 2023 from the Arts Society to support the school with their Coronation project of a large all school collage of King Charles III, using newspaper photographs from the day. Our funding paid for an arts teacher Becky Fuller to work with the children.The result was amazing and has been displayed at the school and at the Haven Centre in Crawley Down. An article was published in our Two Villages Parish Magazine. To view Click Here
In the past The Arts Society Turners Hill were pleased to be able to offer sponsorships to students at West Dean College. Each year, we joined with other Sussex Arts Societies to identify an outstanding student to receive sponsorship. West Dean College specialises in the preservation and restoration of artefacts such as manuscripts, including books, ceramics, clocks and watches, metalwork, furniture, musical instruments and building conservation. Increasingly there is a shortage of skilled conservators in the heritage sector, and most are now required to have a specialist postgraduate qualification before finding employment. Sponsorship helps ensure a flow of new talent into heritage conservation.
To see the final report of our sponsored student, Hollie Drinkwater, go to OUR SOCIETY and then DOCUMENTS.
To see the report of our sponsored student, Andrew Braund, go to OUR SOCIETY and then DOCUMENTS.
Click HERE to watch Presentation on by Andrew Braund on 16th April 21, that years West Dean sponsered student.