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Work With Us: Office & Finance Manager

We are recruiting for a managerial role to work with Trowbridge Town Hall. This person will manage the finances, contracts, policies and HR of the organisation. They will also support the governance and fundraising. This is a full-time role. This is an essential role. It holds the processes which underpin the operations of the whole… Read more »

Meet Lorena

From my earliest days studying journalism in Venezuela, I’ve always been fascinated by the arts and our need, as humans, to communicate and connect. Before moving to the UK, I worked in a film distribution company and for local film festivals, and I was a lecturer of Films and TV at a University. When I… Read more »

Celebrate – Trowbridge’s Community Paper

Five hundred years ago, whilst Britain was tearing itself apart over an ideological and traumatic break from Europe, something remarkable was happening in Venice. Words in ink soaked into paper, the paper was folded in four and then disseminated across the city. For the first time in human history, the inhabitants of a city had… Read more »

Culture Recovery Fund Award

Trowbridge Town Hall is among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund This award will enable the organisation to reawaken the Town Hall with live music and work with communities across the town. Trowbridge Town Hall has received a grant of £38,635 from… Read more »

Gavin Osborn Joins The Team

When you’re writing songs at home in your bedroom, it really does feel like you’ve pulled the sword from the stone and done something impossible. With nothing more than your thoughts and words and fingers on strings, you’ve built something that wasn’t there before. Like a magic trick. It’s not a house or a cupboard… Read more »

Live at the Town Hall

Over six weeks, we released performances from six incredibly talented local musicians. While we were unable to welcome an audience into the building due to the pandemic, Wiltshire Rural Music came to us with the idea of creating an intimate collection of special performances from our live music space. We were proud to host performances… Read more »

Trowbridge 18-25

Trowbridge 18-25 is a project to hear ideas from people aged between 18 and 25, and to help them realise these. It might be that you want to put on a music festival, start a new business or run an exhibition. Whatever you want to do, we’d like to hear from you. Funded by Sovereign… Read more »

Welcoming New Staff and Trustees

Amber Massie-Blomfield

The charity running Trowbridge’s historic Town Hall has recruited a new member of staff to their core team. Emily Thommes joins as Office and Finance Manager. She has worked as a theatre producer and arts manager for organisations including Lost Dog, Pride in London, Fuel, Theatre-Rites, Impropera, Engineer Theatre Collective & Arts2Educate. She was as independent… Read more »

Rosemary Macdonald Appointed as Chair

The charity running Trowbridge Town Hall has appointed a new Chair of Trustees. Rosemary Macdonald BEM was elected as Chair in September and took over at the AGM last week. Rosemary is the CEO of UK Community Foundations, which distributes £98 million of funding a year through 46 local foundations. Prior to this Rosemary was… Read more »

A Song For Trowbridge

Hello, my name is Jonny. I’m a stand-up comedian, playwright, and I write songs as one of half of the musical-comedy group Jonny & The Baptists. And I’ve a favour to ask of you! A few years ago I made a show called “Every Brilliant Thing”, a play about depression and the lengths we go… Read more »