Para Arts Clay Modelling
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Fairkytes Arts Centre
Fairkytes Arts Centre is a community arts centre in the heart of Hornchurch offering a wide range of activities for adults and children, rooms for hire, a large number of clubs and societies, and occasional events and demonstrations.
Keep up-to-date with what's on at Fairkytes
You can keep informed about events and activities including children's holiday workshops, music events, theatre, and open days:
Clubs & societies
Fairkytes is a meeting place for dozens of local clubs, groups and societies.
If you’re interested in music, learning a language, keeping fit or saving the environment, there’s a club for you at Fairkytes.
Fairkytes Live
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Rooms for hire
If you’re looking for a room to hold your class or a meeting place for your club, Fairkytes has a number of simple, adaptable spaces in a range of sizes, all at reasonable cost.
Whether you need a clear area for dance, tables and chairs for a meeting or a cabaret style layout for a quiz night, we can be of help.
Contact Fairkytes Art Centre on 01708 433433 to book or take a look at the venue directory.
The History of Fairkytes
Fairkytes was a private house originally built in the mid 18th century with several later additions to the property made up to the end of the 19th century. It is Grade II listed.
Previous occupants include Job Alibone, Joseph Fry (son of the famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry) and Thomas Wedlake, who owned the Iron Foundry which stood opposite. In the 1950s it was bought by Hornchurch Urban District Council who used it as a library.
Fairkytes became Havering's Arts Centre in 1973 when the library moved to the purpose built building in North Street. Over time the centre has grown considerably, incorporating the Annexe building at the rear in 1992 and the Billet building next door in 2001.
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