about us    



Do Your Ideas is a community carpentry workshop in Bexhill-on-Sea. the workshop is open to everyone looking to learn new skills and realise their creative ambitions. we offer daytime, evening, and weekend classes covering a range of activities - mostly involving carpentry and "do-it-yourself" skills

we want to support people who don't usually have access to this kind of facility. we're open to changing the space and our ways of working to encourage a broad range of people to feel more welcome

the workshop has flat-access and accessible toilets. we're building a low workbench if you need to work from a chair

we provide free or subsidised classes to local community groups, this work is supported by donations and grant funding

our program of classes changes throughout the year and we have occasional weekend open days. please subscribe to our newsletter to keep up-to-date


Visit us
our open-hours for visitors are Monday to Friday 10am until 2:30pm. you’re welcome to drop-in but we often have classes on or we're busy in the workshop so it's worth emailing beforehand

Unit 20, Beeching Road Studios, Bexhill TN39 3LJ

the nearest train stations are Bexhill and Collington (there are no ticket barriers at Collington)

the workshop is part of Beeching Road Studios, which is also home to Flatland Projects art gallery; Common Clay ceramics studio, Beeching Road Artists Studios, Three Legs Brewery, and Built by Novo Gym


Do Your Ideas was founded by Adam Burton

Sam Ayre, Anne-Marie Watson, and Billy Stanley contribute to planning and programming


Donations
Do Your Ideas is a Community Interest Company, or CIC - we operate on a not-for-profit basis. we run free classes for local community groups which are paid for with grant funding and donations. also, our paid classes and other activities all contribute towards our free public programme

if you'd like to support our work with a financial donation please contact us or visit us at the workshop

we welcome donations of hand tools and power tools that we can use in the workshop, lend out, or pass on to others

we also welcome donations of materials: specifically untreated and treated timber, and ply off-cuts. please email us beforehand. we cannot take any MDF or pallets




the workshop was built with support from of the East Sussex Skills Fund,
Ben Urban at Flatland Projects, and Carla Wright at Common Clay

unit 2o, beeching road studios, bexhill-on-sea tn39 3lj