This month we hear from Zahra of the Young Women’s Music Project, a local charity that provides an inclusive, supportive space for young womxn to get together to make music, learn new skills, express themselves, and grow in confidence. Zahra: The Young Women’s Music Project was founded by Kate Garrett in 2000 in response to inequality in […]
Makespace Oxford stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. We have taken time to reflect, take to the streets in solidarity, and consider how any collective statement might offer a meaningful declaration of our commitment towards the deep work and sustained action needed to carry us forwards. Racial injustice has strong roots in the colonial […]
At Makespace Oxford we have always tried to create spaces that offer a community environment for socially conscious groups and organizations. We have prided ourselves on providing affordable spaces in Oxford by acquiring short term ‘meanwhile’ leases from landlords with empty property, refurbishing them and renting them to charities, businesses, artists and makers. Our efforts over the […]
This Saturday we had a fantastic time celebrating Makespace Oxford’s first birthday with many members of our networks and local community – and looking forward to another incredible year ahead! In just a year we have become a working home to over 30 purpose-driven local businesses, organisations and individuals, and had frequent community events attracting over 2,000 […]
Emma Gordon, Makespace Coordinator on being part of a community-led and grassroots call to put empty shops to better use. Photos by Youssef Sida. Last night Makespace Oxford attended the “What to do about Oxford’s empty shops” community discussion group at Open House on Little Clarendon Street and what a turn out! Starting from a little post […]
When it comes to housing and homelessness, we need to talk. Oxford has a big problem with housing and homelessness. You don’t need to read the headlines to notice that there are more people sleeping rough in Oxford than ever before. 2017’s ‘street count’, the way the national government records the number of people sleeping rough found […]
Christmas has come early at Makespace Oxford as residents have been gently serenaded with Christmas carols coming from behind the doors of the Inspire Sounds recording studio. In this blog, Kingsley Pratt-Boyden explains why, and how you can support them. Recently, through local charity Be Free Young Carers, we’ve been working with an incredible group of young […]
Katie Reilly, Architectural Assistant at Transition by Design writes about the experience of moving a cooperative architecture and design studio into Makespace Oxford. For the last three and a half years Turl Street Kitchen has been home to the Transition by Design studio where we’ve shared a space with our friends from mental health charity Student Minds. […]