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Your donation supports our new arts venue, creates space for children to get creative and continues to provide invaluable experiences.

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 Modern Painters, 
 New Decorators 

Modern Painters, New Decorators is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation based at Aumberry Gap in Loughborough.

Over our first year in the new venue, we have opened a new home for contemporary art in the town, welcomed new audiences, supported artists, created opportunities for children and young people, and built a space where people can meet, make and spend time together.

Following unsuccessful funding applications to Arts Council England and Charnwood Borough Council, we are currently unable to continue operating in the same way.

For at least the rest of 2026, we will not be delivering our regular MPND-curated programme of exhibitions, workshops and public events while we reapply for funding and work out what is possible.

This is a significant obstacle, but it is not the end of MPND. We are not closing or disappearing.

Our studioholders will continue to work from the building, and the site will remain active through occasional exhibitions, events, fundraising activity and future hires of our Gallery and Project Space.

This situation reflects the reality faced by many small, independent and artist-led organisations working within an increasingly competitive funding system. Public funding enables organisations like ours to provide free cultural activity, pay artists and arts workers fairly, work with communities who may otherwise face barriers to taking part, and support creative work that cannot be sustained through commercial income alone.

We are working hard to protect what has been built at Aumberry Gap and develop a sustainable next phase for MPND.

Your donation will help us:

* keep our building active and accessible
* maintain our Gallery, Project Space and shared facilities
* support the essential running costs of the organisation
* continue creating opportunities for artists and local communities
* prepare new funding applications and future programmes

Every donation, whether large or small, helps us continue.

Thank you to everyone who has visited, taken part, collaborated with us and supported our first year at Aumberry Gap. We have achieved a great deal together, and we are still here.