Become a Friend

Our Friends Scheme

MAKE Southwest is a craft education charity and as such we rely on your donations to make some of the activities we do here possible. By becoming a Friend you can support us and get a host of benefits. Friends subscriptions support us by helping us to:

  • Remain admission free

  • Provide free workshops for young people

  • Provide free craft kits to support mental wellbeing

  • Support the local community

  • Nurture and mentor emerging talent

  • Invest in talented makers

As a Friend you will receive:

  • LATEST news with a quarterly newsletter (in addition to our general monthly newsletter)

  • EXCLUSIVE free access to preview evenings

  • PRIORITY booking for selected events

  • 10% DISCOUNT in our galleries

  • 10% DISCOUNT in Rodney’s Cafe upstairs

  • 20% OFF entry to The Leach Pottery

  • 10% OFF entry to Bovey Tracey Craft Festival & Cheltenham Craft Festival

Please see Terms & Conditions for full details and exclusions etc.

Annual Fee

Individual: £48
Joint: £60

Joint Friends must be from the same household. You will receive 2 cards and both names of Friends will be noted on the database, but we only require contact details of the lead person. All communications from MAKE Southwest will be directed to the email address of the lead person, submitted in this form.

Become a Friend Today!

  1. Submit your details using the form below.

  2. You’ll be redirected to another webpage where you can choose how to make payment. You will ALSO receive an email with duplicate information in case you want to make payment at a later time (you can ignore the email if you pay via the webpage).

  3. Once we have received payment, we'll be in touch (within 5 days) with your unique Friends number and we'll pop your Friends discount card in the post!

  4. Want to shop before you’ve received your Friends number or discount card? No problem! Just show your transaction email receipt to the team at the till and they’ll apply your discount.

FAQs

  • Friends can use their 10% discount on any item that is for sale in our Jubilee, Riverside, Maker Showcase or Retail galleries!

  • Yes. Spaces will be limited so it is vital that you book your ticket in advance, using the link we will send you via email.

  • We will remind you, via email, when your Friends subscription is coming to the end of the 12 months. If you set up a Direct Debit when registering as a Friend, payment will automatically be taken and you will not need to take any further action. If you made a one-off payment, we will email you with another payment link.

  • If the event is FREE for everyone but you, as a Friend, have been given advanced booking, you can book tickets in advance for whoever you like.

    If you have been given a FREE tickets for a paid for event, Joint Friends will have access to 2 tickets and Individual Friends will have access to 1 ticket, but you must make sure you book. Tickets will be first come, first served.

  • As long as one of the named persons on the Joint Friends Subscription attends, you can bring whoever else with you.

  • Please email hello@crafts.org.uk with your name from the email address you registered with, so we can identify you. We’ll send out another card in the post, to the address you used when you signed up.

  • No, you will be issued with a completely new friends number when you make your first payment under the new scheme.

  • No. Currently, we do not currently support this.

  • Once paid, your Friends subscription lasts for 12 months and is non-refundable. We would advise that you make full use of the benefits you have access to, for the entire year and simply don’t renew (i.e. don’t pay again).

    Of course, if you would like to go ahead and cancel your subscription anyway (and have your data removed from our system), please just email hello@crafts.org.uk with your request.

  • Get in touch ASAP with your new contact details - we use them to verify who you are so it is important that they are always kept up-to-date.

  • As Friends receive something in return (discounts) for their generous contribution to the Charity, we are not able to claim Gift Aid on these contributions.

    We are only able to collect Gift Aid on one-off donations made to the Charity.

  • Email your query to hello@crafts.org.uk and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Header image: Jenny Southam, Looking at Sculpture; Helmet Head