It’s a people place

Sunflower House is a registered charity, which manages the building and organises the programmes and activities at this much loved community venue.

Our Charity Number is 1158558.

The Sunflower House building is owned by The Harbour Church and they lease it to The Sunflower House charity. We work in partnership with The Harbour Church and many other community organisations.
The Community Room building is a purpose built space leased from Ould Developments Ltd and is part of a regeneration project in The Bayle

We couldn’t do what we do without help from a number of generous supporters and funders – we’re proud to share our appreciation of them with you.

Our support team deserve a shout out too!

Chris Waterton is our finance advisor, helping us to get the best our of our resources and to use our funds as well as possible.
Sharon Holdsworth and Brian Westcott head up our wonderful Volunteer Gardening team and also provide support for the Sunflower Warm Welcome every Friday, when we work with our students from the Beacon Plus cafe team.
Sharon also runs the fortnightly Saturday sessions for the Community Creative Collective (C3) group, another local initiative we are proud to be supporting.
Mike Wright is our Tech Assistant, providing help with our IT systems and also supporting the Sunflower House Repair Cafe, which has a great team of experts working with us to fix stuff for people and reduce waste and landfill!
Charlotte Chapman is our Community Arts adviser, working on a range of new projects to provide opportunities for local people in visual arts and self-expression.
Marketa Patelova is our Wellbeing adviser, helping coordinate and develop activities which can improve quality of life, including physical and mental health.
Our Press team  (giving their time and expertise pro bono) are the talented writer Diane Priestley – her blog site is here…
and the remarkable photographer Pete Maclaine, who has contributed our images.
His instagram account here shows just a small part of his range and talent.

The vision for Sunflower House was the brainchild of the late David Taylor and his wife Raili, who oversaw the major project through which Sunflower House was extensively modernised and remodelled in 2013, to provide flexible facilities for a wide range of activities.

We prioritise usage for community benefit, such as self-improvement courses, exhibitions, music, dance, art projects, meetings – as you can see on our other website pages. We may be able to offer some limited usage for community events
– please note we are not currently taking private hire bookings.

The beautiful Sunflower House mural by local artist Phillippa Goddard

Many passers by admire the beautiful mural which characterises Sunflower House.
This link will take you to the website of “Up the Wall” where you can discover how local artist Phillippa Goddard undertook this extraordinary project.