Belfrey Arts Centre is home to
Wellington Theatre Company(including Belfrey Youth Theatre and Belfrey Players) at the Belfrey Theatre
Wrekin Arts Photograhic Club in their studio
Mike’s Art School in the Art Studio
Green Room Players and Little Eyases in the Green Room Stage School Rooms
and Matt who is hoping to open a studio in our old pottery building and Van der Woning Studio.
Links to their websites are in the links section and you will find much more information from their own websites
The Arts Centre is run by Belfrey Arts Trust a registered charity number 1001265 and limited company number 2329616 set up 20 years ago to manage the centre. The trust is responsible for the running of the centre, promotion of arts activities and all external repairs, maintenance and rates. The above groups pay rent to Belfrey Arts Trust and are responsible for all internal repairs etc to their separate buildings.
The Belfrey Arts Trust also owns the car park across the road from the Belfrey Theatre having bought it some years ago from the council, as a car park, to prevent redevelopment and to try to ensure continuation of the activities of the Belfrey Arts Centre as a whole.
The present board of Belfrey Arts Trust is
Councillor Keith Austin Chairman (Elected Director)
John Sweetland Company Secretary (Elected Director)
Marianne Foster Treasurer (Elected Director)
John Sugden (Wellington Theatre Company Director)
Tim Crowson (Wellington Theatre Company Director)
Andrew Foster (Wellington Theatre Company Director)
Tony Thomas (Wrekin Arts Photographic Club Director)
Roger Hague(Wrekin Arts Photographic Club Director)
Mike Hatch( Mike’s Art School Director)
Irene Parks (Co-opted Director) (former Wrekin Art Rep)
Councillor Graham Riley(Co-opted Director)( former Wrekin Art Rep)
The Belfrey Arts Trust Board meets every other month.
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