MESSUMS CREATIVE
Supporting Access, Learning & Excellence
​Messums Creative is a charitable organisation that advances creativity as a force for lifelong learning, wellbeing, and connection.
We are dedicated to showing that the act of making can strengthen communities, spark ideas, and inspire positive change.
Operating in rural Wiltshire and a coastal community in Lowestoft, our mission is to foster resilient communities by creating spaces where people can come together to forge meaningful connections through the act of making.
"To make is to live, to make beautifully is to begin to understand”
THOUGHT SHOPS
At the heart of our work are Thought Shops—participatory spaces where people can reflect, experiment, and exchange ideas. Like a café for creativity, Thought Shops provide accessible opportunities for learning, collaboration, and imaginative problem-solving. They are designed to be replicable, exploring solutions to shared challenges such as high street regeneration, and demonstrating that small, targeted investments in creative activity can generate high social value in wellbeing, hope, and resilience.
ACCESS TO CREATIVE LEARNING
We offer a unified platform for research, participation, and innovative programming. Access to creative learning is provided through community outreach, education programmes, workshops, courses, residencies, talks, events, and films. We believe art, as a common language, can build empathetic bonds, and that actively creating together allows people to understand and connect with one another.
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