ARK, Cliftonville’s Cultural Space – a former synagogue with a unique heritage and based in a unique part of Thanet with diverse communities – will invite people to contribute to and take part in The Freedom Space project through building planters, planting (with herbs for the community to use), and creating mosaics and ceramic pieces.

Through its active volunteer programme; free activities for the local Roma community and refugee and migrant communities, weekly drop-ins and programme of workshops for local schools celebrating Jewish heritage; members from the local mosque; and the wider local community, this project will celebrate the diversity of the community, and ARK as an inclusive, creative cultural resource, and will also provide an opportunity for people to continue to be connected to ARK, and each other, while the building is closed for improvements over the summer.