The Clayrooms

The Clayrooms is a pottery studio in Ashbourne offering workshops, courses and memberships. The owners wanted to grow the business by increasing their offsite activities.

A £5,477 grant has enabled them to equip the rear area of the shop. This has enabled the business to make better use of their retail space and stay on the high street. In time they plan to employ a part time member of staff to manage it.

Development of the hub has involved refitting the rear of the shop with shelving, upgrading materials for the additional workshops plus new IT hardware to handle increased volume of bookings and enable the use of professional graphic software. This will facilitate the running of workshops in various hospitality venues (pubs, breweries, cafes etc) a branch of the business which is already seeing growth.

Sarah Reed (Owner) says;

Pottery@ThePub is growing from strength to strength, we now have approx 20 venues across the region and we are growing!

Total Project Cost Grant Received Outputs
£6,846.72 £5,477.37 Increase Turnover, Reduced Running Costs, 0.5 Jobs Created

This grant scheme is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).

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