Dear People of Crawley and beyond,
We hope you have enjoyed experiencing a range of different creative activities and events in Unit 79/80, County Mall since the end of March 2025. 2,300 people have been through the doors and the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Our test period was until the end of June 2025 and that’s when the grant from Arts Council England to support the transformation of the spaces and the programme within it ended. However, we are delighted to tell you that County Mall have asked us to stay and we’ve agreed to do that until the end of March 2026 (unless a more commercial tenant appears).
This means we are committed to caretaking the Unit as a resource for local creative people and we are fundraising to create a programme of work led by Creative Crawley. This means we are still incurring costs to keep it running. Since March the space has been used by local orchestras for music workshops, youth music organisations, local performers and film-makers as a rehearsal, workshop and performance space. We employed a group of 18 Crawley locals to staff and manage the space for activity to take place in.
We want more creative people to use the space and we encourage you to get in touch if you have an idea for an event you want to put on, a meeting you want to have or a creative session you want to run.
AudioActive will continue to run their music workshops for 12 – 25 year olds in the space on Mons, Weds & Thurs. We’ll open the Unit when there is an event on, otherwise it’ll be closed to the general public. Even if it looks closed there might be a rehearsal or a session going on inside. Visit our website www.creativecrawley.com to find out what’s on.
We will continue to pop up in lots of other spaces and places around the town as well as here but for now, this Unit remains a resource to use for the creative people of Crawley.
Love from the Creative Crawley team x
June 2025
