Volunteering

Getting a pottery studio set up is hard work! If you’ve come to this page, you clicked that you’re interested in helping us out between now and 12th September. Here’s some of the things we could use help with!

  • Moving furniture around this SUNDAY, **16th August**: from around noon for a couple hours

  • Unpacking equipment, moving furniture and heavy bags of clay around on **25 August**

  • 3D printing small studio supplies

  • Drawing simple throwing charts — I can provide my own very rough version to work from

  • Labeling shelves, materials and studio supplies from **7 September**

  • Preparing for the soft launch on 12th September

  • Preparing simple food or homemade bakes for the soft launch on **12 September** — agreed in-advance only, with a full ingredients list and allergen information

What would you like to help with? Or what would you like to donate?

Wish List

Got something we might be able to use?
We’d love to give useful pottery and studio equipment a new home. Have a look through our wishlist below and please contact us before bringing anything in — space is limited and we can’t accept unscheduled drop-offs.

Studio furniture, storage, and reference

  • Pottery and ceramics books or magazines

  • Clean sheets of plywood or straight lengths of timber over 2m — no rough, splintery or heavily damaged wood, please

  • IKEA Billy bookcases or similar sturdy shelving; solid, clean drawer units over 1m wide; one large, lockable steel cupboard

Pottery tools

  • Throwing & handbuilding tools in good condition

  • Banding wheels / turntables

  • Extruder dies

  • Brushes, glaze tongs, glaze sieves, et

  • Plaster press moulds or sprig moulds in good condition

Clay & glazes

  • ES5, Vulcan Black or porcelain clay

  • Certain clearly labelled commercial glazes that fire to cone 8, with at least 1L remaining

  • Clearly labelled underglazes, commercial slips, ceramic stains, and lustres

Kiln & firing supplies

  • Kiln props / posts

  • Pyrometric cones 05, 04, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11

Larger pottery equipment

Definitely by prior arrangement.

  • Pottery wheels

  • A small test kiln (up to 40L), or secondary kiln around 200L

  • Electric glaze stirrers / mixing equipment / vibrating sieves

What you may be surprised that we CAN'T use — but thanks for the thought!

  • Clay, unless you happen to have bags of ES5, Vulcan Black or porcelain, or most glazes. Too many variations lying around can be hard to organise.

  • Kiln shelves: we have soooo many! There's a great deal up north if you need any — just ask.

Have something pottery-related that isn’t listed? Feel free to ask — we may be able to use it.