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The National Centre for Craft & Design
Former name
The National Centre for Craft & Design
EstablishedOctober 2003
LocationNavigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, NG34 7TW
Coordinates 52°59′55″N0°24′26″W / 52.998679°N 0.407356°W / 52.998679; -0.407356 Coordinates: 52°59′55″N0°24′26″W / 52.998679°N 0.407356°W / 52.998679; -0.407356
TypeGallery and arts venue
Visitors90,000 (2011–12) [1]
Website
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River Slea and the Hub

The Hub (sometimes The National Centre for Craft & Design) is an arts centre in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, which holds England's largest exhibition space for craft and design. [2] It comprises a shop, cafebar, galleries, dance studio, and design workshops. [3] [4] [5] [6] The centre provides space for contemporary artists and makers, workshops, talks, classes, competitions and performance. It has creative links to local schools, and is a focus for the Design-Nation creatives network.

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The NCCD began as 'The Hub' in 2003, [7] [8] in a converted Hubbard and Phillips company seed warehouse. In 2011 it changed to The National Centre for Craft & Design, funded by North Kesteven District Council and Arts Council England. [1] [9] [10]

Prior to the NCCD re-brand, the building spent nine years as 'The Hub', after transferring from The Pearoom in Heckington which was turned into a heritage, craft and tourism centre for the village in the 1970s. Until a move to Sleaford in 2003, the current home was a seed warehouse from 1939 to 1972 and a storage area thereafter. The Hub is today an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, owned and supported by North Kesteven District Council and operated by Lincs Inspire Limited, a Lincolnshire-based charity. A £1.2 million refurbishment in May 2021 followed closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hub is part of Lincolnshire One Venues (LOV), aided by Lincolnshire Arts Trust to promote, and achieve funding for, ten arts centres within Lincolnshire. [11] [12] and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, owned and supported by North Kesteven District Council and operated by Lincs Inspire Limited. [13]

Events

In 2011 the NCCD held an international competition for architects and artists to design beach huts for the Lincolnshire coast; entries came from North America, Europe and Asia in the form of scale models, the winning design being built full size. [14] [15]

In January 2012 the Centre became a venue for an international touring exhibition, The Museum of Broken Relationships, with Croatian exhibits of personal relationship mementos. [16]

The NCCD co-curated, in collaboration with the Crafts Council and mac (Birmingham), the tri-annual Made in the Middle exhibition of contemporary design, held at the mac centre from February to April 2012. [17] The Arts Council funded Design Factory announced that Made in the Middle would visit the NCCD from April to July 2012. [18]

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  12. ↑ "Our venues"; Lincolnshire One Venues. Retrieved 12 June 2012
  13. ↑ "About". Hub Sleaford. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  14. ↑ "Bathing Beauties: Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century"; Electricegg.co.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  15. ↑ "Bathing Beauties on Tour"; Bathingbeauties.org.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012
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  18. ↑ "East meets West at The National Centre for Craft & Design"; Designfactory.org.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012
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