The Big Give Christmas Challenge



Double your donation when you give online between 3 and 10 December towards the Big Give Christmas Challenge.

Your donation will support our charity's Art For All By All learning programme enabling us to provide artist-led creative learning for local people who would not ordinarily have this opportunity.

Why your donation matters

In the year that we celebrate 175 years since the birth of our co-founder Mary Watts, we honour her artistic talent, philanthropy, and advocacy for social reform today, through the community engagement programme. This programme embodies her vision that art can be transformative; helping to inspire and uplift, creating access to art and to craft for thousands of people across Surrey who might not otherwise have this opportunity. Through artist-led workshops, we help people to learn new skills, gain a qualification, build self-confidence and experience how art and craft can enrich their lives.

These workshops are delivered free-of-charge to groups supporting young people in overcoming challenges such as mental health challenges, to charities helping people with a learning disability to achieve their full potential and to organisations working with young offenders and women prisoners to rebuild a better future.

The more I escape into my art, the more confident I become, as an artist and a person. It's a lifesaver.

- Deborah, HMP Send

A close up photo of a woman's hand making marks on clay

We are grateful to the Borrows Charitable Trust, Robin Privett and the Big Give for their support.