Arts, Culture & Heritage Health & Wellbeing 2025
Harbour House

Harbour House Impact Report 2024/2025

Harbour House is a charitable contemporary art and wellbeing centre in Kingsbridge, South Devon, working to enrich the lives of its town and surrounding communities through art, creativity and wellbeing practices. The 2024/25 impact report covers the first full year of its engagement programme, shaped by five strategic aims: improved community cohesion, improved physical and mental health, increased cultural and socio-economic development, reduced social isolation, and increased environmental literacy. Key figures include 36,958 total visits, 83 free events, 2,889 engagement programme participants, and partnerships with 12 community organisations. Funding came from the National Lottery Community Fund (£20,000), Activities 115 (£3,790) and the Gibbons Family Trust (£2,280), with most core funding provided by Harbour House Trust.

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Free community art and movement workshops; contemporary art exhibitions (8 hosted); social prescribing partnership workshops (Mindful Making and Mindful Movement); free room hire for community groups (62 bookings, 186 hours); studio hire for local teachers; community partnerships with 12 organisations including NHS, school, food bank and carers' groups; employment for 18 local community members Custom geography from upload: Kingsbridge, South Devon, England

📊Key Metrics

36,958 total visits to Harbour House from April 2024 to April 2025, including 5,263 exhibition visitors and 13,050 café visits Key Metric 1
2,889 community members engaged in the engagement programme across 83 free workshops and events Key Metric 2
14,300 movement class attendances and 1,456 art class attendances supported through 22 and 3 local practitioners respectively Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Social prescribing partnership workshops (funded by National Lottery Community Fund) delivered 12 sessions to 12 participants with long-term mental health conditions including depression, anxiety and PTSD — with 100% reporting they met new people, learned new skills and had opportunities to be creative, and several participants forming self-led creative groups continuing independently after the programme
  • Free room hire provided 186 hours of non-clinical community space to groups including Devon Carers, the NHS, South Hams Family Hub and a Men's Growth Group — with social prescribing link workers citing the venue as a 'valuable asset' reducing barriers for clients with social anxiety
  • 40 Devon and Cornwall-based artists and movement practitioners were engaged across diverse media including dance, sculpture, somatic practices, video art, printmaking, puppetry, and DJing — supporting local creative livelihoods while co-designing community-led programmes rooted in the Five Ways to Wellbeing framework

📍Geography

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