Welcome to Bovey Paradiso
Our vision is to create a lively community arts and entertainment centre in Bovey Tracey. We have given the 16th century King of Prussia building located at the top end of Fore Street a new lease of life. The restoration of this Tudor building now includes an art gallery (since June 2021), four artists' studios and a meeting room seating 11 people, for more detail select top menu ‘Art Gallery’ and select ‘Meeting room’. Please come along and visit our gallery. we aim to change exhibitions approximately monthly. You can also contact us on any subject by selecting top menu 'Contact us'.
Following our second community share offer which raised over £100,000, and with the grants we have obtained, we have now started the development of phase 2 of the project. This phase is the development of a well-equipped kitchen and high-quality restaurant which will be open in the Spring 2022. We will send Newsletter updates advising progress in due course.
When funding is available, the final phase of development will be a cinema / theatre with almost 100 seats, for more detail select top menu ‘About us’ and select ‘Plans’.
Bovey Tracey Paradiso Arts Ltd. is a charitable Community Benefit Society owned by over 400 Members holding community shares. Including donors around 600 people in our community are stakeholders. Huge thanks go to the holders of our community shares, donors and volunteers for giving their time to make this project possible.
In addition to our community supporters, we have received support from Big Society Capital and generous funding from the grant organisations shown below.
Funding
We still need financial help to complete this exciting project. If you'd like to help by making a donation, please visit the gallery where you will also be able to view the latest exhibition, or you can donate online, just click the button below.
Your help is much appreciated.
Next Event
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Land and Sea
Thursday 13 January 2022 to Saturday 19 February 2022
The Gallery will be hosting our second exhibition featuring landscape and seascape artworks, following our successful debut exhibition in June 2021.
Latest News
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Report from the AGM - Feb 21
Bovey Paradiso AGM The Annual General Meeting of Bovey Tracey Paradiso Arts took place on Thursday, 11 February online via the Zoom platform. Given the circumstances there was a great turn out of member shareholders. In addition to the Chairman's report from Stephen Willmore, presentations were given on the Finance Report by David Alexander and a report from the Architect, Dawn Presland.
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Bovey Paradiso Community Share Offer
It’s official, we have launched our second community share offer, you can now help us finish the job to open Bovey Paradiso Our vision is for a place of fun, imagination and togetherness on everyone's doorstep. The historic King of Prussia will have a new life and purpose for the people of Bovey Tracey once again. Bovey Paradiso will be a focal point for the local arts scene to showcase local artists and drama groups, as well as an airy, open communal gathering place to meet and socialise.
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The King's Chronicle - December 2020
From the Chairman: Dear Reader, Well, this year has been a challenging year for all of us in all sorts of different ways. For Bovey Paradiso things were moving along so well until we were into March then for quite some time everything stopped. When we started back up it wasn’t easy with all the difficulties of social distancing for our contractors and making it inappropriate to deploy volunteers.