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To celebrate creative design and healthy living by bringing together fine arts, handmade crafts and wholesome food in an uplifting and imaginative setting.’

Creative Clay Festival and Children’s Holiday Activities – see events page for more information....... click Arts for current exhibitions ..... .....Paint Your Own Pot.....click EVENTS to see our current activities.

Taurus Crafts is an exciting place to see a vibrant range of crafts and to discover your own creativity.
The centre is family friendly and offers something of interest for all ages.
Taurus is a social enterprise and  also a training and trading centre for the Camphill Village Trust.

Taurus Crafts aims to be a successful community enterprise. We work not for profit, but to generate the funds needed to support the social objectives of the centre.
We wish to integrate people whose needs are not well met through mainstream education and training.
Taurus Crafts offers work experience and skills training to enable confidence building
and greater independence.
Together we want to make a contribution to the economic, social and cultural fabric of the Forest of Dean.

It is located just outside Lydney on the A48 road in Gloucestershire in a country park setting.

TAURUS CRAFTS
The Old Park
Lydney
Glos
GL15 6BU:

Telephone: 01594 844 841 Fax: 01594 845 636 Email: enquire@tauruscrafts.co.uk

Opening Times: 10am to 5.30pm Daily We welcome bookings for parties, functions, receptions, business meeting etc.

Coach parties welcome by prior appointment

Training at Taurus Crafts

The training department at Taurus Crafts provides support to adults with special needs in their day to day work experience, working alongside the trainee until confidence is gained, ensuring that special needs are catered for in an unobtrusive manner and that the grounding for work place skills is provided.

Although not a training establishment Taurus Crafts provides Basic Skills, Life Skills and Work Skills training. Those wishing to may attain NPTC, NVQ qualifications without travelling to a college.

Award Ceremony for Students Gaining Qualifications

Training staff assess each individual and plan their training so that competence is attained without undue stress. We have excellent links with local colleges and can arrange extra tuition for work related skill courses. (Recently our trainees have taken courses in antique furniture restoration and silver jewellery making.)

Oliver Packer started in the Garden Now helps run a Jewellery shop making his own pieces for sale.

We run other learning experiences such as a supper club in our restaurant kitchens once a month so that trainees can learn independent living skills in a fun and friendly atmosphere.

Taurus Crafts hosts work placement for young people from surrounding schools each year as well as those with special needs or exclusion problems. Our staff members are skilled in counselling and teaching and are on hand 7 days a week to support the work placements.

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