Made In Hastings

Made in Hastings opened in the summer of 2004 to provide an outlet for the work of the founding members and local creatives. The idea grew from a successful Open Studio sale where Sue, Josephine, Sophie, Judith, Claire and Melanie all first met. Between us we realised that sharing our combined skills, experiences and expertise could allow us an opportunity to focus on our individual businesses and also have somewhere to sell our work. Many meetings later we set about finding a suitable premises to open a shop that would suit our needs. No 82 the High Street in the Old Town just happened to come up for rent and in June 2004 we opened our doors for the first time.

In the early days we focused on our own work but soon started to include the work of many talented local people and have forged strong relationships with our makers over the years. As well as our own work we sell for between sixty and eighty talented craftspeople from the local area and some from further afield.