Firstsite - Essex Community Foundation

Arts, Culture and Heritage

Firstsite

As well as hosting exhibitions from local, national and international artists, the Firstsite art gallery in Colchester offers a wide range of community-based activities and educational programmes for people of all ages and abilities.

Their projects encourage individuals to extend their learning and build confidence which contributes to their overall health and wellbeing.

We funded a project exploring what ‘Britishness’ means, where over 1,000 children and young people explored issues of identity, citizenship and what it means to be British, by creating mixed media artwork for an exhibition.