A Pioneering Arts and Wellbeing Programme in King’s Lynn, Norfolk gets underway
Create King’s Lynn, a new cultural programme for the town of King’s Lynn is beginning through a powerful partnership between arts and health leaders, made possible by Arts Council England Place Partnership investment alongside funding from the Geoffrey Watling Charity. Rooted in a shared commitment to wellbeing, connection and place, Create King’s Lynn brings together […]
Our New Home in King’s Lynn
We are pleased to announce, the very worst kept secret, that we are to be the new custodians of the Old Library in King’s Lynn – following the relocation of the libraries service in the town. The Old Library King’s Lynn will be our new home; a venue that will continue to be a place […]
Six Years of The Workshop, King’s Lynn!
What is The Workshop? For those who may not know us, The Workshop is a charity with a clear mission: to transform lives through the arts. We believe creativity has the power to inspire, connect, and change communities – and for the past six years, that’s exactly what we’ve been working to do in King’s […]
Welcoming The Workshop’s Project Manager Jen
Meet Jen, the new Co-design Project Manager for The Workshop in King’s Lynn, overseeing three community projects: Creative Wellbeing with the Purfleet Centre supporting local homelessness, ‘Sing4Fun’ for visually impaired participants with Vision Norfolk, and the King’s Lynn Youth Project with students from King’s Lynn Academy. With many years of experience working within the arts […]
Sound and Vision: Drum for Fun
What is Sound and Vision? Sound and Vision is a co-designed project facilitated by The Workshop for Vision Norfolk users. In the early stages of this collaboration, a focus group identified poor mental health because of isolation as a key challenge faced by people who are blind or visually impaired. Together, we created Sound and […]
Work experience was far from dull for Jack
We love lifting the curtain on what we do here and inspiring the next generation of creatives. So, it was great having The Prince’s Trust participant Jack here on work experience these past two weeks. I’ll let him catch you up with what he learnt. “Hi, I’m on the Trust’s Team Programme. As part of […]
Meet The Workshop’s new front-of-house assistant Harry
Meet Harry Hastings, who joined us in March as our new front-of-house assistant. Born and raised in King’s Lynn, he’s no stranger to The Workshop having freelanced for us and being one of our first ever Introduction to the Creative Industries programme participants. I’ll let Harry pick up the story. I’d like to thank everyone […]
Top up your mental health
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a topic close to everyone’s heart here at The Workshop. From inclusion projects like our Creative Wellbeing sessions with The Purfleet Trust to our education and participation programmes – the arts make us better, inside and out. Our team are sharing what they do to look after their mental […]
WoW we had a fantastic time at Buckingham Palace
Some of our team and participants swapped The Workshop for Buckingham Palace to hang out with royalty this week. You may have read on our socials how we were involved with the WoW (Women of the World) Festival Bus a few weeks back when it visited town. Our participants got to enter a draw to […]
Work has finished on our makeover. What do you think?
Hard to believe, but we’ve been open since 2019. The Garage Trust, which operates The Workshop, was already doing a lot of outreach activity in West Norfolk so knew it had to open a second venue. We landed at 38 New Conduit Street, in King’s Lynn’s Vancouver Quarter, but closed soon after because of the […]