Oxford arts venue seeks new home

Community arts centre Fusion Arts is looking for a new home as its current premises faces demolition.

The East Oxford Community Centre is part of a £5.5m Oxford City Council redevelopment plan, which includes new flats on site.

Branding the plans “counterintuitive at best”, Fusion Arts says the temporary relocation venue proposed by the council is “inadequate as it does not meet [its] legal, safety or minimum requirements to serve the community”.

The venue took to Twitter to ask the local community for help finding alternative arrangements.

It plans to continue running creative community projects throughout the county during the works.