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Atkins Building including Atkins Gallery is open Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00 but will be closed on the following dates:

Opening Hours
Thursday 17 April 09:00-17:00
Good Friday 18 April CLOSED
Easter Saturday 19 April CLOSED
Easter Sunday 20 April CLOSED
Easter Monday 21 April CLOSED
Tuesday 22 April 09:00-17:00

In Atkins Gallery is the Nuneaton Festival of Arts - Craft and Needlecraft exhibition and on the Post Box Gallery will be a solo exhibition by Ruthie Elizabeth.

Hinckley Registry Office is by appointment only
For information on Leicestershire County Council Registration service please visit https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/registrars or call 0116 305 6565

Barclays Banking in the Community
The last Barclays visit before Easter is Thursday 17 April and they return on Thursday 24 April. Barclays Telephone banking 0345 734 5345

Available offices at Atkins Building updated 26/03/2025


Office S10 495sq ft non furnished annual rent £5432.50 +VAT and furnished rent £6,435+VAT
Annual Service Charge Inc. Utilities £3,916.60+VAT


Office T01 231sqft non furnished annual rent £3,234+VAT and annual service charge inc utilities £1826.20+VAT



Atkins Building has:

• Flexible lease terms available

• On site building management staff

• 24/7 access

• Pay & display car parking nearby

• Town Centre Location

• Heritage site with strong local connections

* Onsite Cafe and Art Gallery

The Rent and Service Charge figures quoted above are the annual charge, which is invoiced in advance in equal monthly instalments.

The Service Charge includes management of the business centre, building maintenance, building insurance and utilities.


Tenants are responsible for Business Rates and BID contributions, where they apply.

There is also a Co-Working space at Atkins Building where you can rent a desk for the day on a flexible basis https://www.atkinsbuilding.co.uk/news/story/Co-working


If you would like to book a viewing of the offices or Co-Working space please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Are you waiting for Wi-Fi installation at home, have need of an office but only part time or just need a change of scene than why not consider renting a desk at Atkins Building new Co-working area?

Atkins Building’s Co-working space is a warm and welcoming open plan office that's designed to accommodate people from different businesses to do their work in a comfortable and professional setting.

Atkins Building is a refurbished Victorian hosiery factory located in Hinckley Town centre with excellent public transport links and nearby car parking which includes EV charging options. Atkins Building has a spacious Reception where you can meet colleagues and guests, get fresh food and Fair Trade coffee from the Hansom Café, view exhibitions in the art gallery plus a variety of meeting rooms are available for hire.

Atkins Building Co-Working is the largest facility of this type in the local area.

There are many benefits to using the Co-Working at Atkins Building:
Improved Work-Life Balance
Increased Productivity and Creativity
Combat Loneliness and Isolation
Flexible and Cost Effective

Co- Working provides a great alternative to traditional workspaces with its flexible approach allowing you to book a desk when needed making it a more cost-effective solution, particularly for freelancers and start ups with limited budgets.

A day at Atkins Building Co-working (08:30-17:00) costs £27.60 (£23+VAT) and this includes a large desk, office chair, laptop riser, mouse, mouse mat, Wi-Fi, access to a printer and photocopier, break out areas, kitchen and toilet facilities. There is also a coffee inclusion version where you can order two hot drinks of your choice from the onsite Hansom Café for £34.80 (£29+VAT). Half day options with or without coffee are available as well.

There is a launch of the new Co-Working space on Wednesday 17 April 2024 from 09:30 to 11:00.
Join us for coffee, view the facility, network and meet members of the Leicestershire Business Advice Service.

For more information please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

To book and make payment please visit https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/info/200159/pay/1348/miscellaneous_payments and Select Co working from the Atkins Building section

Barclays Hinckley Team will be at Atkins Building on Mondays and Thursday 09:30-14:30 and are here to help you with anything from money management and financial health, to improving your home or supporting your business.

There’s no cash or counter service, but Barclays can help you with your banking and can show you what you can do from your Barclays app

You can pre-book an appointment at: https://events.uk.barclays/local/

UPDATE 01/06/2022
Atkins Building has made it to the final round of best Art Space!
Thank you to all those who voted us previously to make Atkins Building a finalist and if you are able to vote for us again that would be amazing!

https://leics.muddystilettos.co.uk/vote/



05/11/2022
We are so pleased to have been nominated for Best Art Space in the Muddy Stilettos awards in Leicestershire and Rutland! It means a lot to the Gallery team that people are returning to our galleries after our long COVID closures and we plan to continue supporting local and national artists in our gallery spaces alongside our partner the Hansom Cafe.

Thank you to all our visitors and artists for supporting us!

The Volunteer Hub in Atkins Building Reception

The Volunteering Hub will be hosted in the meeting pod in Atkins Building Reception every Friday 10:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00. The Volunteering Hub, will provide a physical access point for members of the public to find out about volunteering opportunities in the Borough, and will complement the existing online volunteering service.

For more information about volunteering in Hinckley and Bosworth Borough https://www.ruralcc.org.uk/hbbc-vcs-partnership/

The Volunteer Hub was opened on 10 May 2022 at 11 AM by Atkins Gallery volunteer and local student Patrick Parker.

UPDATED 02/05/2024

Atkins Gallery is having a COVID Christmas Remembrance Tree where people can hang an ornament to represent someone they lost to coronavirus. From 1st December people can bring in bauble either purchased or handmade to hang on the tree. Also available are pre cut plain wooden decorations for people to decorate with the name of their loved one which can be collected from the Reception at Atkins Building.

The Christmas tree is a sustainable real tree which is being rented from local business Love a Christmas Tree who will collect the tree after Christmas and return it to the ground at their farm in Kirkby Mallory.

The COVID Christmas Remembrance tree accompanies the next exhibition in Atkins Gallery called Journey. Journey is a collaborative exhibition led by trainee art therapist Lyni Sargent, exploring the topic of human emotions and how art can be used to process the events of life. Lyni was motivated to create the exhibition after the passing of her father.

As part of our COVID-19 Secure strategy Atkins Building has put measures in place to record visitor details for NHS Trace and Test service.

Atkins Building remains closed to the general public at present with access by appointments only with Leicestershire Registration Service and the other businesses based at Atkins Building.

To keep up to date with Atkins Building and Atkins Gallery please follow us on social media @AtkinsBuilding


Recording customer details: how we use your information
To support NHS Test and Trace (which is part of the Department for Health and Social Care) in England, we have been mandated by law to collect and keep a limited record of staff, customers and visitors who come onto our premises for the purpose of contact tracing.

By maintaining records of staff, customers and visitors, and sharing these with NHS Test and Trace where requested, we can help to identify people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus.

As a customer/visitor of Atkins Building - HBBC you will be asked to provide some basic information and contact details. The following information will be collected:

- the names of all customers or visitors, or if it is a group of people, the name of one member of the group
- a contact phone number for each customer or visitor, or for the lead member of a group of people
- date of visit and arrival time and departure time

Atkins building - HBBC as the data controllers for the collection of your personal data, will be responsible for compliance with data protection legislation for the period of time it holds the information. When that information is requested by the NHS Test and Trace service, the service would at this point be responsible for compliance with data protection legislation for that period of time.

The NHS Test and Trace service as part of safeguarding your personal data, has in place technical, organisational and administrative security measures to protect your personal information that it receives from the venue/establishment, that it holds from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

In addition, if you only interact with one member of staff during your visit, the name of the assigned staff member will be recorded alongside your information.

NHS Test and Trace have asked us to retain this information for 21 days from the date of your visit, to enable contact tracing to be carried out by NHS Test and Trace during that period. We will only share information with NHS Test and Trace if it is specifically requested by them.

For example, if another customer at the venue reported symptoms and subsequently tested positive, NHS Test and Trace can request the log of customer details for a particular time period (for example, this may be all customers who visited on a particular day or time-band, or over a 2-day period).


Under government guidance, the information we collect may include information which we would not ordinarily collect from you and which we therefore collect only for the purpose of contact tracing. Information of this type will not be used for other purposes, and NHS Test and Trace will not disclose this information to any third party unless required to do so by law (for example, as a result of receiving a court order). In addition, where the information is only collected for the purpose of contact tracing, it will be destroyed by us 21 days after the date of your visit.

However, the government guidance may also cover information that we would usually collect and hold onto as part of our ordinary dealings with you (perhaps, for example, your name, date of birth and phone number). Where this is the case, this information only will continue to be held after 21 days and we will use it as we usually would, unless and until you tell us not to.

Your information will always be stored and used in compliance with the relevant data protection legislation.

The use of your information is covered by the General Data Protection Regulations Article 6 (1) (c) – a legal obligation to which we as a venue/establishment are subject to. The legal obligation to which we’re subject, means that we’re mandated by law, by a set of new regulations from the government, to co-operate with the NHS Test and Trace service, in order to help maintain a safe operating environment and to help fight any local outbreak of corona virus.

By law, you have a number of rights as a data subject, such as the right to be informed, the right to access information held about you and the right to rectification of any inaccurate data that we hold about you.

You have the right to request that we erase personal data about you that we hold (although this is not an absolute right).

You have the right to request that we restrict processing of personal data about you that we hold in certain circumstances.

You have the right to object to processing of personal data about you on grounds relating to your particular situation (also again this right is not absolute).

If you are unhappy or wish to complain about how your information is used, you should contact a member of staff in the first instance to resolve your issue.

If you are still not satisfied, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Their website address is http://www.ico.org.uk.

Contact our Data Protection officer:

Online: complete our contact form at https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/infogovQ
Phone: 01455 238141


We keep our privacy notice under regular review, and we will make new versions available on our privacy notice page on https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/info/200240/data_protection/899/our_data_protection_privacy_notice . This privacy notice was last updated on 8 September 2020.

Local art venues Atkins Gallery and Ten2 Gallery have teamed up to showcase your creative responses to Life in Lockdown

Ten2 Gallery is planning to host a physical exhibition of their lockdown canvases as soon as they can open again and the Atkins Gallery will include them in their online exhibition.

To enter the Ten2 Gallery exhibition please call in to The Art Studio, 102 Castle Street and collect your lockdown exhibition kit ( 20x20cm (8x8inch) canvas, acrylic paints and brushes set at a special offer price for just £10!) Completed entries can be returned to the art shop from Monday 15 June or they can be posted through the letterbox (if closed)! The cost of the kit includes entry into the exhibition at Ten2 Gallery plus it will be photographed to be included in the Atkins Gallery online Exhibition.

Later in the year when Atkins Building is open to the public again, the physical entries from the Ten2 exhibition will go on tour and be displayed at Atkins Building as well.


Atkins Gallery also has its own online exhibition which is free to enter with a digital submission of up to three responses to the lockdown be it painting, sewing, writing or sculpting! Submission of entries is from now until 26 June and the exhibition goes online on 1 July 2020!


ENTRY DETAILS

Ten2 Gallery, 102 Castle Street, Hinckley, LE10 1DD https://www.ten2gallery.co.uk/

Please collect the lockdown exhibition special offer canvas set by calling into The Art Studio, Monday to Saturday between 09:00 and 2:00. Return your entry by dropping it off during those same times or put it through the letterbox.

Please include with your entry Name, contact details and piece title. If the entry is from a person aged under 16 please include their age and the contact details of a parent or guardian.

Entries will be photographed by Ten2 Gallery and details transferred to Atkins Gallery for submission in both exhibitions.

For information on the Ten2 Gallery exhibition please call 01455 636339 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Entry to just Atkins Gallery online exhibition, Atkins Building http://www.atkinsbuilding.co.uk

Please email your submissions to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and please include your name and piece title. Optional extra details include a statement about the piece, your social media handles, mediums used and the size of the piece.

04/06/2020 UPDATE

Atkins Gallery exhibitions and Town Centre events cancelled for July https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/press/article/2172/events_cancelled_%E2%80%93_july_2020

04/05/2020 UPDATE

Atkins Gallery exhibitions and Town Centre events cancelled for June. https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/press/article/2158/events_cancelled?fbclid=IwAR0pSZW_7vqAJxyjTDHleMzYZ8gYNDrYrVxF7LB9QYvRkBdkBAG-N_cx21Q

30/03/2020 UPDATE

https://www.leicestershire.gov.uk/registrars/registration-services-and-coronavirus-updates
Leicestershire Registration Service Death appointments will move to a telephone basis please see the link for more information. Atkins Building including Atkins Gallery remain closed to the general public.


18/03/2020
Following Government guidance on COVID-19 it is with great regret we have to announce that Atkins Building is no longer open to the general public & only open to those with appointments at Leicestershire Registration Service 0116 3056565 and the businesses based at Atkins Building.


In a wider response to the advice HBBC has cancelled Atkins Gallery exhibitions and Town Centre events for the foreseeable future to carry out the current advice of non essential social contact. The situation will be monitored going forward in regards to making a decision regarding the exhibitions and events planned later this summer.

For more information on Atkins Gallery and other Town Centre event cancellations please see Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council press release

https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/press/article/2146/events_cancelled

Post Box Galley, Atkins Building Terms and Conditions

Atkins Building is launching a new exhibition space for local artists and community groups called the Post Box Gallery which is situated in Atkins Building Reception. This free exhibition space has high footfall, a flexible STAS mini rail hanging system and you can exhibit for up to six weeks and promotion of the exhibition on Atkins Building social media. To download a copy of the Post Box Gallery Terms and Conditions please click on the Download Information link

The popular Atkins Gallery Open Exhibition returns this summer with 2019 celebrating the Hansom Cab and Hinckley’s contribution to the transport industry.
The theme of this year’s Open Exhibition is Travels and Transport with 2D and 3D interpretations of the theme welcome. Your piece could be about a physical or personal journey, a favourite vehicle you’ve owned or would like to own, views and experiences from your travels from home and abroad, inspiration from heritage transport like the Hansom Cab or the Flying Scotsman, inspiration from daily or special journeys or different ways of travelling by land, sea or air.

Submission Dates for your transport and journey inspired pieces are 1 July to 5 July at Atkins Building Reception 08:30-17:30 costing £12 for up to three pieces with the exhibition opening on 15 July. You can download a Open Exhibition Pack from https://www.atkinsbuilding.co.uk/events

Atkins Gallery which is a large well-lit open plan space adjacent to Atkins Gallery Reception which has availability in autumn 2019. The space is ideal for group and solo shows and can support 2D, 3D, visual media and installations. It is available for £120 a week and includes the use of plinths and lockable glass cabinets and support from Reception and Atkins building social media.

For more information about any of the ways to exhibit at Atkins Building please call 01455 247070 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or follow Atkins Building on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Say Yes and provide GDPR consent

You may have heard about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that comes into effect May 25, 2018. To help Atkins Building
comply with GDPR consent requirements, we need to confirm that you would like to receive periodic updates from Atkins Building and Atkins Gallery from .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

If you have received an email from .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) then please SAY YES and reply to the email with Yes so we can keep on sending you all the information on the upcoming news and events straight to your inbox. Alternatively if you would like to hear from Atkins Building drop us an email and we will include you in future communication.

How we will use your information
Your information will be used so that we can deliver a public service. Under Article 6(1) (e) of the General Data Protection Regulations, we are permitted to use data for our tasks; data Protection law describes this legal basis for handling your information. Your data will only be used by Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, Atkins Building and our partners for the reasons it was collected. We will not disclose any personal information to any other third parties unless required or allowed to do so by law. Read more about how we use personal data on our privacy notice page: https://www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/privacy

Atkins Building has a number of companies based in its office accommodation on Lower Bond Street plus a virtual office service where small companies can use the Atkins Building as a business mailbox. The Virtual Office service is ending on 31/03/18 and once the current service users have finished their notice period there will be no more business mailboxes at Atkins Building only those in the office and studio accommodation.

With these upcoming changes Atkins Building recommends carrying out some simple checks when dealing with businesses that you aren’t familiar with who give this building as their business address. Please call 01455 247070 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to check that the business in question is based at Atkins Building.

If you have any concerns regarding a company please report them to the local trading standards office:
Leicestershire County Council
Chief Executive's Department
Trading Standards Services
County Hall
Glenfield
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 8RA
03454 04 05 06

e: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
w: http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/business/tradingstandards.htm
For further advice and guidance please see http://www.tradingstandards.uk/advice

Atkins Building has got a great programme of events and exhibitions happening this winter in Atkins Gallery

Bouncing Back 11 Nov - 25 Nov
An exhibition featuring work from a collective of artists who chose to Bounce back when their artworks were destroyed by an arson attack.

In 2010, Terry Hartshorn, an artist and resident of Stretton-under-Fosse approached the Malt Kiln Farm Shop also in Stretton-Under-Fosse with the idea of opening a gallery adjacent to the already popular farm Café.

The resulting Gallery offered a bright, airy space and an excellent outlet for the work of several well established and new up and coming artists living and working in Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

By 2016 the gallery was attracting the work of numerous artists based in Warwickshire, Leicestershire and even Northamptonshire. The Gallery had proved to be so successful for Malt Kiln Farm and the exhibiting artists that extensions to the existing Gallery and Café were planned.

Then on 26th June 2016, the complex was struck by disaster in the shape of an arson attack. Fire swept through the building, completely destroying the farm shop, cafe and the gallery. Five fire engines from Rugby, Nuneaton, Coventry and Binley, the command support vehicle, water bowser and aerial platform from Leamington Spa were deployed to tackle the flames. The artists lost all the artworks, easels, display boards and other equipment and a local family lost its business, all destroyed in a couple of hours A rare and vital community facility and a huge expression of creative endeavour were lost in one senseless, wicked and violent act.

Thankfully, the owners of the farm shop have proved to be resilient and the shop, cafe and gallery have since reopened and the community of artists have also been undaunted by this tragic incident.

“Bouncing Back” is an exhibition of work in reaction to the fire and loss of a creative space on display at the Atkins Gallery, Atkins Building, Lower Bond Street, Hinckley from 11th - 25th November. Work by local artists; Michelle Leche, Terry Hartshorn, Paul Percival, Jackie Ward, and Janet Watson will be on show. The work speaks of a new beginning, new ideas and offers a view of an exciting future. Demonstrating that creativity will always shine through.

Christmas Gift Fair 18 Nov
the Christmas Gift Fair returns to the Atkins Gallery for its third year on Saturday 18th November with Christmas gift ideas and other festive treats and is the place to be to find inspiration and get you in to the Christmas mood. There will be stalls of creative gifts, food and drink and other activities to keep you entertained on Saturday 18th November. For the latest updates and to see who will be having a stall this year, please check out our Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1907516982821799/

Colour in a Monochrome World 2017 6 Dec 2017 - 2 Jan 2018

Penny and Colin first met while studying for a masters Degree in Fine Art in 2005. They have exhibited work together ever since. This exhibition explores diversity; in the combination of art materials not normally worked together and differences within society.
Penny Andrews, a textile artist, uses her psychotherapy background as a starting point for creative work. In her work for this exhibition she explores childhood issues. Children under the age of 10 make sense of the world and their experiences with limited knowledge and understanding. How they interpret their world during these early years can have an impact on their future lives. Penny’s work explores the impact ridicule and humiliation can have on creativity.
Colin Ward, fine artist, has been practising art from an early age. He has always used a wide variety of materials in his work. In this exhibition Colin has been exploring unusual combinations of medium; glass with ceramics, glass and fabric, acrylic on canvas combined with fluorescent celluloid. Colin’s work is inspired by people and nature.

For more information on Atkins Gallery please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or see the event calendar http://www.atkinsbuilding.co.uk/events

Interior image of Cafe area at Atkins Building

Due to a change in personal circumstances the owners of Café Español will be leaving Atkins Building creating an exciting new opportunity for a new café business to operate from Atkins Building.

The Café area at Atkins Building is situated next to Atkins Gallery and is in close proximity to North Warwickshire and Hinckley College Hinckley Campus and Hinckley Town Centre. It has high footfall from the users of Atkins Building, opportunities to cater for the conferences held in Atkins Building meeting rooms and private hire options The Café area at Atkins Building is 1700sqft plus a separate storage area of 170sqft and comes with furniture, outside decking area, kitchen fixtures and fittings and other food preparation items.

For more information or to book a site visit please call 01455 247070 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

What are your childhood Memories?

Atkins Gallery Open Exhibitions return this summer with a new brief to inspire local artists!

This year's theme is Childhood Memories a broad and all encompassing title which can be interpreted in many different ways. The title encourages expressive reminiscence and allows the artist to draw upon personal memories or explore a more generalised nostalgia. You might want to think about people you have known, things you have seen, experiences you have enjoyed. You could consider special occasions or milestones in your life; favourite colours, foods or toys from your youth; or changing styles and fashions when you were growing up. You might create a piece highlighting people, places or products that are no longer with us. You might decide to paint an old photograph or draw a collection of childhood relics; or you might sketch a place you have visited or create a collage using ephemera from the year you were born!
There are many possibilities and submissions interpreting the theme in a variety of media are welcome.

If you are interested in exhibiting in the Open Exhibition please download a copy of the Exhibitor Pack. Please read the information thoroughly, the back page is to be filled in and returned to us along with your submitted pieces. Artists can submit up to three pieces for £12 (instructions on making the online payment is included in the pack) and artwork is to be submitted between 26th – 30th June and be collected after the exhibition between 1st – 4th August 2017.

A Lunchtime Launch is on Saturday 8th July to kick-start the exhibition, giving visitors the opportunity to meet the artists involved and discuss the artwork on display. The Lunchtime Launch will be free entry and welcomes everyone, with refreshments available from Café Español

Download your copy of Atkins Gallery Spring 2017 exhibitions by clicking on the link below!

In Atkins Gallery this Spring

ALCHEMY EXHIBITION
25th MARCH - 22nd APRIL
A group of local artists will exhibit some intriguing compositions in a range of style and subject matter. The Alchemy Artists work, talk and exhibit together. Explorations on the themes of "Alchemy", "Things are getting better, Things are getting worse" and others, will stimulate, delight, and puzzle.

FOOTPRINTS ON THE FOSSEWAY
2nd MAY - 10th MAY
This is an exhibition by Redmoor Academy that covers a year of exploring the Roman heritage of Hinckley and surrounding areas. It will consist of an original mosaic made using traditional Roman methods; costumes created by students for use by actors in a world premiere of a forgotten Roman play; a life-sized Roman chariot of the type used on the Fosse Way; archaeological finds from the dig at Sharnford; a film of the Roman play; the documentary of the year’s work; written pieces and photographs.

IN OILS BY NEIL PRIOR
13th MAY - 27th MAY
Local artist Neil Prior will be exhibiting a superb selection of oil paintings in the Atkins Gallery this May. His subject matter ranges from animals and people to landscapes and still-life in his chosen medium of oils. In addition to hosting the exhibition, Neil will be spending time in the Atkins Gallery to showcase the tools and techniques he deploys to create his artworks and to speak about his inspiration and choice of subjects. For more information about Neil and his artwork please visit his Facebook page @NeilPriorArtist

NWHC BA HONS VISUAL MEDIA GRADUATE SHOW
12th to 27th JUNE 2017
Students from North Warwickshire and Hinckley College will be putting their graduate work on display in the Atkins Gallery in June. This is the third year the college has exhibited the students' coursework and this exhibition anticipates the exploration of a range of subjects and themes in a visually dynamic and striking way.

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OPEN EXHIBITION
8th JULY – 29th JULY
This summer the Atkins Open Exhibition returns with a new brief to inspire local artists. As with previous Open Exhibitions, Childhood Memories has a broad and all encompassing title which can be interpreted in many different ways. A Lunchtime Launch is proposed on Saturday 8th July to kick-start the exhibition; this will be free entry and gives visitors the opportunity to meet the artists involved and discuss the artwork on display with refreshments available from Café Español. For more information on the Open Exhibition and to download an Exhibitors Pack please see the exhibition entry on http://www.atkinsbuilding.co.uk/events

Details of what's happening in the Atkins Gallery over the next few months. For any queries please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 01455 247070.

Promotional poster for the Atkins Gallery

The Atkins Gallery has a busy schedule this spring and summer meaning there is always something to look forward to. The all-important dates for your diaries are included in our snazzy promotional poster.

Back for their second year running, Coventry University Drawing Prize promises to be an eclectic and memorable exhibition this April. Similarly, students from North Warwickshire and Hinckley College return this May following last year's exhibition for another fantastic collection of work entitled H.E Photography. WhiteFriars Revisited showcases some wonderful examples of Haybarn glass in June with the opportunity to get your antiques valued and sold at auction by Lockdales on Thursday 9th June, 11.30am-3.30pm.

Not to be missed during the summer is our second Open Exhibition so artists get on the lookout for some inspiration and submit your artwork for this 'Local Landscapes' themed collection. If you are interested in participating, please download an Exhibitor Pack, which includes terms and conditions and payment instructions. Remember there will be an Evening View on Friday 15th July to launch what should be an exciting and variegated Open Exhibition. Refreshments can be purchased from Café Espanol and entry is free, giving you the opportunity to look at the artwork and meet the artists involved.

The Atkins Gallery is free to enter and welcomes everyone. Its opening hours coincide with Café Espanol's opening times: 10am till 2:30pm on weekdays and Saturdays and evening openings on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 6:30pm till 10pm. Visitors are able to view the Gallery between 2:30-4pm on weekdays - please enquire at the Atkins Reception. For more information on anything about the Atkins Gallery including upcoming exhibitions and events and how to exhibit please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 01455 247070.

Left to Right: Michelle Kemp Photography, Ann Patchett, Anne Jones, Prize Draw Winners Hannah and Ethan, and Emma Banks

Wedding Fair Prize Draw winners Hannah Mason and Ethan Hawkins had no idea that a visit to the Atkins Building’s annual Wedding Fair would turn out to be so advantageous. The building’s 5th annual Wedding Fair held in the Atkins Gallery boasted a fine selection of local exhibitors, some of which had offered gifts to the free entry prize draw which all visitors were welcome to enter. The winner selected at random was Ethan Hawkins of Earl Shilton who plans to marry his fiancé Hannah Mason in August 2017. The couple admitted to being over-the-moon at the news they had won, stating that “when we entered we never even had the thought that we might win. It came as a complete surprise.”

Included in the prizes were a Michelle Kemp Photography gift voucher for pre-wedding couple photo shoot including one mount print; £50 gift voucher from Sue Todd of Designer Travel; a hamper of best-selling Forever Living Products courtesy of local representative Jennifer Plester, Choices Floristry gift Voucher; £100 towards wedding décor when selected from the WOW Business; free chair covers from The Meeting Centre and a custom made vanilla sponge cake made specially by Ann Patchett of Ann’s Party Catering. The prizes were presented to Hannah and Ethan in Café Español on Saturday 12th March 2016 and several exhibitors re-joined them for a cup of coffee to celebrate as photographs were taken. The Atkins based staff would like to congratulate Hannah Mason and Ethan Hawkins and wish them all the very best for a happy future together.

Atkins Showcases

Available to hire for display for six weeks at a time, the Atkins Showcases are ideally located in the Atkins Gallery and adjacent to Café Español for maximum promotional potential. The cost to exhibit is £10+VAT (£12) per shelf for six weeks and this method of exhibiting is ideal for jewellery and textile items, smaller artworks and ornamental pieces. Situated next to the town centre and in close proximity to aspiring enterprises, the Atkins Gallery has a high footfall, opening your arts and crafts up to a larger audience to help you sell your artwork whilst getting your talent recognised. If you would like to exhibit in one of the Atkins Showcases please download an Exhibitor's Pack or contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or ring 01455 247070.

Jill Boggon 2013 Crafts Image

The Christmas Gift Fair sees its first year at the Atkins Building on Saturday 21st November. Previous years the Atkins Building has had a craft fair called Glitter Arti run by Creative Hinckley. Since this organisation dissolved earlier this year, the Atkins Team have taken back the gallery, rebranding it as The Atkins Gallery, and has created a programme of events and exhibitions which are being managed in a completely different way to before.

The Christmas Gift Fair will include Christmas gift ideas and other festive treats, encompassing crafts, home-made items and much more! We expect to see a variety of stalls with plenty of interesting items for sale and things to help get you in the festive mood. There will be exhibitors displaying their wares, including ceramics, men and women’s jewellery, fine art prints, textile items, greeting cards, Christmas decorations and plenty of other unique items. The fair will be taking place in the Atkins Gallery, situated directly adjacent to Café Español so you can grab a cup of coffee or a bite to eat in between browsing for Christmas products.

This year’s Christmas Gift Fair at the Atkins Building will be taking place on Saturday 21st November from 10am till 4pm. For those who would like to exhibit and sell their items for the festive season, a stall is £30+VAT for the day. Payment is to be made online on the HBBC website (instructions are included on the entry form). If interested please download an entry form below or contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Atkins Building has a number of companies based in its office accommodation on Lower Bond Street plus a virtual office service where small companies can use the Atkins Building as a business mailbox and it has come to the attention of the Atkins Team that a small number of businesses are fraudulently using the Atkins Building as their trading address.

The Atkins Team takes this issue very seriously and recommends carrying out some simple checks when dealing with businesses that you aren’t familiar with by calling Atkins Building on 01455 247070 or emailing .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to check that the business in question is based at Atkins Building.

If you have any concerns regarding a company please report them to the local trading standards office:
Leicestershire County Council
Chief Executive's Department
Trading Standards Services
County Hall
Glenfield
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 8RA
03454 04 05 06

e: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
w: http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/business/tradingstandards.htm
For further advice and guidance please see http://www.tradingstandards.uk/advice

Atkins Gallery Logo

Following the takeover and refurbishment by the Atkins Building and HBBC the Atkins team are focused on using the space for displaying local and regional art, not only has the layout and price structure been revised to make the Atkins Gallery more accessible for individual artists and groups to exhibit. The revised layout also makes it ideal performance area or workshop space.

The Atkins Gallery Cabinets are also available for exhibiting smaller art and craft items, including ceramics, jewellery, prints and greeting cards, while the Atkins Reception area provides a free space for local artists and community groups to display their work.

Upcoming Exhibitions in the Atkins Gallery

Until 7th May - Coventry Drawing Prize Exhibition
A collection of entries for the annual drawing prize organised by Coventry University and open to all past and present staff and students.

3th May to 2nd June - Christina Lauder Fellowship Prize collection
A collection of award-winning children’s portraits including a Baby of the Year portrait from local photographer Christina Lauder.

8th June to 20th June - North Warwickshire and Hinckley College Student Show
Following on from the successful NWHC 2015 staff show entitled “Finding Time”, this student exhibition will feature a wide variety of 2D, 3D and digital art and design from local up-and-coming talent.

From 25th June - Hinckley Business Market 2015
An annual event being held across Atkins Building with local business exhibitions, seminars, workshops, social media interaction. Those interested in exhibiting, sponsoring or attending the events please contact the organisers at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

10th July to 2nd August - Themed Series Open Exhibitions
The first exhibition in a series of themed open exhibitions open to all. The theme is Summer Holiday encompassing everything from trips home and away, sitting in the garden or on the beach to any activities or memories evoked by this time of year with all mediums welcome. The entry fee is £12 for up to three items with piece submission dates from 1st to 3rd July.


To download an entry form and information pack for the open exhibition please click the link below and for more information on exhibiting at the Atkins Building please call 01455 247070 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Left to Right: Keith Morton, WF Winner Vickie, Michelle Kemp, and Janet Morton

Winner of the Wedding Fair free prize draw Vickie Bailey was presented with a selection of prizes at the Atkins Building on Monday 16th March in an exclusive ice-cream tasting session. Miss Bailey was joined by Michelle Kemp and Janet and Keith Morton in the Paget and Goddard Suite for an ice-cream and photo-shoot.

Contributions to the prize draw included gift vouchers from Michelle Kemp Photography and Designer Travel, a discount from Wendy Louise Make-up Artist, and home delivery of ice-cream from Morton’s Vintage Hire. Vickie Bailey, from Hinckley, who is planning to marry her partner of 20 years, was delighted to find out she had won after entering the free prize draw at The Atkins Building’s annual Wedding Fair on Saturday 21st February 2015.

James Atkins left and Tom Atkins right - the last family managers of this historic local firm

Atkins Building hosted a family reunion for the Atkins Family on Saturday 26th April which was well attended by the hosiery generations and their children, with one guest travelling from Australia! The guest of honour was Mr Tom Atkins the last family director of this well known Hinckley firm who gave a speech and welcomed family back to their historic home. The family also visited the Great Meeting Chapel to see the graves of George and Elizabeth Atkins who along with their five sons started building the factory we see today in 1875. Inside the chapel the family received a talk from chapel volunteers Hugh Beavin and Pat Oliver about the Atkins family connections with the chapel and the contributions they made to Hinckley and the surrounding area.

Visitors enjoying the Wedding Fair in the Partridge Suite at Atkins Building

The sunshine brought in over 175 visitors to the Atkins Building Wedding Fair last Saturday (22/02/14) where they were able to meet face to face with 21 local businesses working in the Wedding Industry in the Partridge Suite and outside on the courtyard including venue hire, catering, photography, bridalwear and much more! Hinckley Registration Services were at the Wedding Fair giving advice and providing tours of the newly decorated Ceremony Suite at Atkins Building. Visitors also entered a FREE prize draw to Win a Ceremony courtesy of Hinckley Registration Service and a selection of vouchers and products from the Wedding Fair exhibitors – winners to be announced soon!


To book your Ceremony at Atkins Building please call 0116 305 6565 to speak to a member of Leicestershire County Council Registration Team

To see photographs from the day please see
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.760992783925640.1073741829.154133097944948&type=1#!/media/set/?set=a.760992783925640.1073741829.154133097944948&type=1&comment_id=7547784&offset=0&total_comments=1¬if_t=photo_album_comment

Fully Fashioned Memories is a Photographic exhibition looking back at the everyday employee who worked for Atkins factories how they celebrated special occasions and the impact factory life had on the local community. The project was in response to former workers and the general public expressing an interest in looking back at the way local people used to work and the changes in local manufacture and employment.

If you missed the Fully Fashioned Memories exhibition at Atkins Building or would like to see the extra vintage Atkins photographs that were donated after the Reunion Party you can see it again at the following venues:

Bedworth Civic Hall - 6th Jan to 30th Jan 2014

Broughton Astley Library - 3rd Feb to 3rd March 2014

Barwell Indoor Bowls Club 7th March to 31st March 2014

To see the photographs from the accompanying reunion party please see https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Atkins-Building/154133097944948?ref=hl#!/media/set/?set=a.676064542418465.1073741827.154133097944948&type=3

Left to Right Janet King, June Clay and Sue Aston who worked in Fold and Bag at Atkins Factory

Nearly 100 former Atkins employees and friends attended the Reunion party at Atkins Building on Saturday 28th September as part of the Fully Fashioned Memories project.

Workers from all departments and years came together to reminisce and celebrate this unique part of Hinckley's social and industrial heritage. The reunion featured the Fully Fashioned Memories exhibition which has over 200 "vintage" photographs and various factory items lent by members of the Atkins community. The party also had showings of two films made by local film makers Stuart Watson and David J Wood on Atkins and Hinckley nostalgia and tours of the building so former colleagues could see how the Building is used now.

The photos from the party can be found on the Atkins Building Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Atkins-Building/154133097944948?ref=hl#!/media/set/?set=a.676064542418465.1073741827.154133097944948&type=3

and a selection of the old Atkins photographs can be found in the Hinckley Times online gallery
http://www.hinckleytimes.net/hinckley-pictures/

Fully Fashioned Memories is a photographic exhibition focusing on the working and social aspect of the everyday person who worked at the Atkins Factories with contributions from former employees and local organisations. The exhibition features over 160 photographs and a variety of factory items, so come down to see the exhibition you might even spot yourself in a photograph!

Exhibition Opening Times
Thursday 12th September 08:30 to 17:30
Friday 13th September 08:30 to 17:30
Saturday 14th September 14:00 to 15:30
Monday 16th September 08:30 to 17:30
Tuesday 17th September 08:30 to 17:30

The exhibition will be transferred to Café Impressions for the accompanying reunion party on Saturday 28th September. To put your name down for the guest list please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 01455 247070 with your name, years worked and departments to wear on a name badge (optional)

Future Footprints an exhibition on the History of Hinckley by Redmoor High School featuring archaeology, film, photography, reminiscences and fashion supported by Heritage Lottery Fund. The exhibition is on display in the Partridge suite at Atkins Building from now until Saturday 13th July. For films on the making of the exhibition including creating a replica Hansom Cab please see http://www.redmooracademy.org/footprints/videos.php.

Exhibition Opening Times - Monday 1st July to Saturday 13th July
Monday to Friday 08:30 to 17:00
Saturday 13th July 11:00 to 15:00

Folding and Bagging department 2002

Fully Fashioned Memories - a photographic exhibition and reunion party looking back at the employees of Atkins Brothers Ltd. The exhibition will be on display in Atkins Building Reception from the 12th September as part of Heritage Open Days and will look at the work and play aspect of life for Atkins Brothers Ltd employees.

Then on Saturday 28th September Fully Fashioned Memories moves to Cafe Impressions at Atkins Building for the reunion party!

If you are interested in attending the reunion or have photographs that you would like to share then please get in touch on 01455 247070 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)