Category Archives: Future plans

Patreon update – it’s good news!

Pop on over for an update on how our appeal to finance our pantry through Patreon is going – it’s happy news 🙂 Last month, we launched an appeal to help us secure regular monthly pledges to fund opening the … Continue reading

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Event announcement: Southampton Seed Swap, Sun 12 March 2023

Over the past century we have lost 97% of our vegetable varieties in the UK alone. A handful of corporations now control a quarter of the world’s entire seed market – the very same corporations that are pushing their GM … Continue reading

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We’ve added new shows to our listings!

Take a look here for the new things we’ve just added

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How to get free live streams from our House to yours!

When the lockdowns were coming to an end and restrictions lifted, a lot of online shows and options to join live events online disappeared. Our audience let us know that they would really miss being able to join us from … Continue reading

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A little gratitude

Two years ago we were readying ourselves to fundraise for our future, and in Feb 2020 we raised £25K to support a change in direction to a more venue-based business model. Less than a month later, the pandemic closed our … Continue reading

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Covid update Monday 29/1/2022

Covid update: TLDR we won’t be dropping all our measures this week – because we’re still in a pandemic. We’re very glad to see infection rates falling and to have seen lower rates of hospitalisation and death in this latest … Continue reading

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Inflation for ordinary people

We just shared this over on Facebook with a text description – adding it here as it’s important info to get out there. Our community pantry might be seen as somewhere that folks who are unhoused use, and yes we … Continue reading

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Covid update

Quick #Covid update: we have never dropped masking or social distancing in our space, so we will continue to limit numbers, keep performance times short with ventilation breaks and encourage masking and lateral flow testing. We are keeping an eye … Continue reading

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An important change to our Patreon

Our community pantry and community cafe events have become very important services locally since the start of the pandemic. We anticipate that, with the end of the furlough scheme, drop in Universal Credit and rising prices of energy, fuel and … Continue reading

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What’s changed? 2021 update

In early 2020, before the pandemic, we held a fundraiser to allow us to step back, repurpose and redesign how we ran The Art House. You can watch us talking about this here We raised £25K at the end of … Continue reading

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