The Carousel is a community interest company founded in 2019. With the goal of building a caring, friendly and accessible art space in a downtown location, The Carousel has since grown into a community of artists, freelancers and remote workers. Students have written dissertations, freelancers have organized events, companies have grown and joint projects have been developed, all under our roof.
As well as building our community and revamping our space, we run workshops, engage people with creativity and skill building, showcase 104 artists, distribute over £18,000 to creatives, record over 89 hours of DJ sets, 8000 people worldwide The world viewed our exhibits online, we organized three small festivals, produced street art projects, took over larger music festivals and a corner of John Lewis Nottingham and drank an estimated 7024 liters of coffee.
69% of employees who work from home experience symptoms of burnout.
Community Work Day is a crowdfunding campaign to provide free access to The Carousel to remote workers, freelancers, small business owners, and anyone else who may need a community-run workplace. Hosted by The Carousel once a week, Community Work Day aims to support people who are struggling with the modern work climate and looking for a change of environment.
Studies show that 81% of those under 35 feared the loneliness of long-term home-based work.
Our current members have told us that working from The Carousel has: Reduced their stress levels, as they are able to rationalize issues with their peers, Helped balance their work life, Allowed them to work on collaborative projects, and Reduced feelings of isolation while doing new friendships. In an increasingly remote world, Community Work Day aims to bring people together.
Access to El Carrusel every Wednesday: 09:00 – 17:00
Including:
- free tea and coffee
- fast wifi
- Kitchen fully equiped
- Lockable storage spaces
- Access to printers
- Access to art materials.
- Free tickets to the Wednesday Workshops 19-22:00
To celebrate Community Work Day, we need to raise funds to pay staff, support snack costs, and contribute to building utilities. Throughout the cost of living crisis, The Carousel has been hit by a 23% increase in its utility bills, while at the same time losing members as their individual spending has increased. In particular, early career professionals (who now cannot afford a membership) are at risk of reduced opportunities; maybe even to give up your aspirations. Community Service Day will help us keep The Carousel’s increased expenses while helping others who are struggling in the current economic climate.
Our Campaign has been selected for matching funding by The Co-operative Bank. For every donation you make they will match it. If we raise £5,000 in pledges, this will double to £10,000, allowing us to run Community Work Day for 8 months.
So we can go even further and help more people, we want to run this project for 1 year, plus add a free monthly ‘Community Play Day’. We can do it if we hit an ambitious target of £20,000!
rewards
**PLEASE NOTE** All items that are physical rewards No include a shipping charge. If you are successful with our campaign, we will ask for an additional postage fee (at cost price) before mailing the item to you.
Art Sale – £10
Purchase a ticket to our art sale that will be randomly selected at an event on March 31.
Tickets include original artwork by Carousel members.
Every £10 donation gets you one ticket.
Super Freak Zine – £15
A post about the time we painted our sign with artist Super Freak.
Still Here Still Life Book – £25
A book that has sold out online! The SHSL book was made with studio alumni Zena Kay and The Carousel co-director Benjamin Kay for the Still Here Still Life Instagram account.
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Carousel Community T-shirts (two designs, one to be announced later) – £30
Designed by the artist and former student of the Kynobio studio. The brand for this campaign. Printed at The Carousel Printing House. Created exclusively for this campaign.
Community Work Day A2 Screen Print – £40
Designed by the artist and former student of the Kynobio studio. The brand for this campaign. A2 screen print in four colors on fully recycled 300 g/m² paper.
Risography Printing Class for 2 at The Carousel Printing House – £50
Experiment with different creative techniques and learn how to print Risograph. Pick up a fine art edition or some mini-zines.
Photo: Tom Morley
International Women’s Day Project Collection 2021 – £60
Within this anthology, you’ll find the work of twenty illustrators from across the UK.
25 risograph prints, a poster, stickers and a handmade booklet.
Photo: V21 Artspace
© The artists
Courtesy: The Carousel
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Screen print on paper at The Carousel Printing House – £75pp
Learn how to produce high-quality screen prints on a variety of alternative papers and substrates. This workshop is an introduction to The Carousel Print Room and gives you access to the space, equipment and consumables so you can keep printing after the session.
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Textile screen printing at The Carousel Printing House – £90pp
Print a run of tote bags and learn how to screen print on textiles. This workshop is an introduction to The Carousel Print Room and gives you access to the space, equipment and consumables so you can keep printing after the session.
Group Creative Play Day – £200
Have a creative play day with The Carousel. Includes a range of art supplies for every type of art-making process.
For groups of up to 8.
Full-time co-working for 3 months – £220
Give yourself or someone else the gift of working 24/7 at The Carousel. Including all the amenities and services of The Carousel.
RRP. £240
Photo: Tom Morley
Full-time co-working for 6 months – £420
Give yourself or someone else the gift of working 24/7 at The Carousel. Including all the amenities and services of The Carousel.
RRP. £480
Photo: Tom Morley
Your own art exhibition – £500
Our downtown gallery space is a great place to showcase your work. We have exhibited; works of photography, fine art, engravings and moving images. Our multipurpose space has different walls on which you can hang your work as well as the option of presenting your work in our stained glass windows.
Photo: V21 Artspace
© The artists
Courtesy: The Carousel
Your own art exhibition including printing – £700
Exhibit in our gallery and also get print credit with The Carousel Printing House to produce your exhibition.