Fundraising Art Auction
Our amazing Art Auction returns for 2025. The auction will take place online and in our exhibition spaces and we hope it will help us raise vital funds to secure the future of the arts centre. The auction is only possible because incredible and generous artists donate their artwork for us to auction. We hope not to raise important funds but also introduce you to new artists and artworks that you continue to follow and support once the auction is over.
Please help us share the auction far and wide, and if you are able, we look forward to your bid. Thank you.
Every year we need to raise funds continue to provide, and grow, this important arts space in Kent. We pride ourselves as a place where critical barriers to accessing the arts are tackled with programmes that provide accessible low cost or free activities for all regardless of age, background or ability. Your support enables programmes like ARTbank, Pay What You Can and Family Art projects to grow and impact our community.
We are faced with constantly increasing pressure to meet the basic running costs of the centre; fuel, wages and materials. Each year we face a shortfall of about £30,000. Our team work incredibly hard to cover most of our costs by hiring spaces, putting on events, running workshops, producing projects and selling through our shop, but the rest we need to fundraise through big events like the auction. We wish we didn't have to - and in the past we received support to provide the arts centre for the community from the local council - but this is no longer possible and we have to generate every penny to cover our costs. And this means every year we have to ask our community to support us, because without you we simply won't exist.
The Artwork
We are now slowly adding donated artwork, please keep checking back for new works and please sign up to our newsletter to stay up to date.
