Double your donation when you give online between 2 and 9 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.

This year, help us raise £75,000 in our Big Give Christmas Challenge and give the gift of art to many people across Surrey.

“I love coming here. It’s an amazing, happy place. I like coming with Halow. It’s so quiet and peaceful.”
- Participant, Halow

If you would like to donate during the Big Give Christmas Challenge, complete the promise form below and we will remind you when you can donate and send you the link. Help transform lives through art.

Why donate

Watts Gallery provides art workshops to some of the most vulnerable in our community. Working alongside community partners, we give opportunity for participants to gain benefits from engaging in art and creativity in a calm, safe setting including; fostering creativity, building confidence, self esteem and the foundations for positive progression.

Your donation could help to:

To support marginalised young people:
Working with young people who are facing challenging circumstances, we aim to offer those who are not in employment, education or training the opportunity to gain key learning for life skills, rediscover enjoyment in learning and gain confidence.

To enrich school level education:
Working with schools including those serving the most deprived areas of Surrey, our programme aims to offer pupils the opportunity to re-discover their enjoyment of learning, to engage in art and creative activities, improve confidence and self esteem.

To improve independence and employability:
We aim to develop key life and personal skills helping to aid independence, personal progression and development, and the potential for moving into employment or volunteering.

To improve outcomes for those involved with or at risk of entering the criminal justice system:
Our programme aims to help to equip participants with the life skills, confidence, self belief and motivation through creative expression to help them progress positively in their lives.

“I have gained the confidence to have a go at any type of art or craft. The mental health benefits are multiple. To turn up at a class and have to think of nothing except what you are doing is amazingly calming.”
- Participant, Explore Refresh Express social prescribing course