Artizan International - makers of handmade cards, jewellery, accessories, gifts and homewares in Harrogate, Peru, and Ecuador
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Artizan International UK


Passionate about making the world a more inclusive, accessible place for everyone.

Arts, Crafts and Training Facilities in the Heart of Harrogate

Discover Artizan in Harrogate
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Artizan UK is a centre in Harrogate that provides therapeutic arts and crafts workshops and workplace skills training opportunities for over 40 people with disabilities in the region.
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It aims to transform attitudes towards people with disabilities and create opportunities for disabled people to engage in the local community.
Creative Workshops
Creative workshops every day of the week for people with disabilities to access arts and crafts activities.​
Llama Lounge
​Every other Thursday evening, our cafe space transforms into a youth club for disabled 16-25 year olds. 

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Visit our Shop
​The Artizan shop is a stunning flagship store for our artisans to display their finest work. Here you can purchase Organics products from Harrogate artisans and stunning jewellery, homewares, gifts and cards made by our talented artisans in Ecuador and Peru.
Training Cafe
Our training Cafe in the heart of Harrogate is training over 30 young adults with learning disabilities.
Crafty Llamas
​Free after school club for children aged 11-15 to create a full range of arts and crafts in a friendly and supported environment.
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Mosaics for Schools
​Our school mosaic project has successfully educated thousands of children & teaching staff all over Yorkshire about disabilities and created some stunning mosaics.
Artizan Organics Enterprise
​Beautiful natural candles, hand cream, lip balms & soaps all made by disabled artisans in Harrogate.
Visit our Cafe
​The Artizan Cafe menu is full of delicious light bites and cakes. Our Peruvian spiced chicken panini, iced lattes and specialty cakes; all made by our trainees are some customer favourites.
Community Engagement
​It is our aim to ensure that our disabled members have opportunities to engage with their community in as many events and occasions as possible from partnering with other charities to walking the catwalk at a fashion show.

Mosaics for Public Spaces: The Harrogate Letters

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Colourful ‘Harrogate letters’ brightening up town centre street, demonstrating the  brilliant skills and talents of people with disabilities in our community 

Nine colourful letters, spelling out the word Harrogate, are now brightening up a drab town centre street.
 
The mosaics have been funded by Harrogate BID (Business Improvement District) and created by artists with disabilities at town centre charity, Artizan International, and are now adorning the side wall of the Boots building, on Cambridge Place.
 
Before the project started, The BID asked businesses and residents what they felt best symbolised the town. The responses, which included Bettys, cycling, Yorkshire Tea and The Stray, where then given to Douglas Thompson, local mosaic artist and freelance creative at Artizan, who came up with the individual designs.

Susie Hart MBE, Artizan International Founder said: “I would like to thank Douglas for doing such a fantastic job of designing the mosaics and working alongside our participants to make them. He put a huge amount of time, effort and inspiration into this project and our folk have absolutely loved working with him.  We'd also like to thank the Harrogate BID for giving us the opportunity to create something truly special for the town centre.  Our members and volunteers spent many hours creating each of the nine letters. They have taken great pride in their work, and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.”
 
Harrogate BID Chair Sara Ferguson said: “I’d like to thank the team at Artizan International for the work they have done in creating these stunning letters. “Now in place, the mosaics look absolutely fantastic, and they have given the much-used passage between Cambridge Street and Oxford Street a real lift. “This has been a fantastic partnership, the result of which is now bringing some much-needed colour to Cambridge Place at the same time as enhancing the area. And each time they journey along Cambridge Place, they will have the satisfaction of knowing they have made these letters which are now adding a positive contribution to the town centre.” 
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Local artist and regular Artizan workshop leader Douglas Thompson, working with our participants with disabilities for many weeks to complete the project.
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Artizan International, our Shop
39 Oxford Street
Harrogate
HG1 1PW
UK

Artizan Cafe & Creative Space
4 Nidderdale House
Cambridge Road
Harrogate
​HG1 1NS
​UK

Artizan Peru, Crafts Centre & Cafe 
202 Calle Espinar
Yanahuara
Arequipa
Peru 

Artizan Ecuador, Crafts Training Centre
San Pablo De Chila
Santo Domingo De Los Tsatchilas
Ecuador 

Registered charity number: 1160494
Telephone (UK)
01423 561556
01423 509251​

Opening Hours (UK)
Shop: Mon, Tues, Weds 10:00 - 16:30
           Thurs, Fri, Sat 10:00 - 17:00
Café: Mon - Sat, 09:30 - 16:00
Services for our disabled members:
Mon - Sat, 09:00 - 16:00
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  • Home
  • About
  • Shop
  • UK
    • Cafe
    • Creative Workshops
    • Training Cafe
    • Llama Lounge
  • Ecuador
  • Peru
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer
    • Become an Artizan Angel
    • Corporate Support
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Instructional videos
  • Blog
  • Events