As well as a little cafe, here you can paint your own pottery…read more There's a £2.50 studio fee and once you're in you get a choice of numerous items, such as mugs, plates, teapots, candle holders, garden ornaments, etc. Prices are clearly labelled on the bottom of all items, I think the cheapest was about £3.50 going all the way up to around £30 for the larger items. I opted to paint a mug. Once I'd decided I was shown to a table and given clear instructions of what to do. There was even a little ideas book which I used for inspiration. The staff were very attentive and the whole experience was fun!! I'd definitely go back again. Left my pottery to be glazed and baked in the kiln and received a call a few days later to say it was ready to be collected. Nicely packaged in a box too to stop any breakages. With a display of numerous home made cakes and sweet things, there's literally something for everyone. There's loads of gluten free options too!! I had a huge slice of the chocolate orange cake once I'd finished painting, and I kid you not, it was the best chocolate orange cake I've ever had - so much so that I really should have asked for the recipe!!

This store makes me want to be a kid again (ok, some of my friends would say that I still am...)!…read more It is an ecclectic mix of toys, art supplies, and art. I popped in because my nieces' (fraternal twins) first birthday are coming up and I figured there would be something for them in this store. The staff are always quick to greet you and let you know that there are more toys upstairs. The store is a little on the small side, so it is easy to knock things off the wall or shelves (I speak from experience... you know the scene where someone knocks something off the wall, and then when they go to fix it, they knock something off the shelf...). The reason I love the toys in this store is that they are handmade, high quality toys... lots of wooden toys. I find most toys today so... technical and they don't allow kids to really use their imagination. I also think that kids are overstimulated... they can carry media with them now, but I think they should get time to just be kids and I think these toys are perfect for that... besides how long will it be before they have cell phones, iPods, iPads, and more iProducts?! They have stuffed animals... beautiful, soft, plush, fun stuffed animals. There are puzzles, even brain teasers for adults, there are hand painted, wooden letters that you can use to decorate children's rooms. Upstairs are bigger items, like wooden doll houses, castles, prams (strollers if you are American), and more technical building sets for the older children. The items are a little on the pricey side, but I think that is due to the high quality of the toys. It may not be an 'everyday' toy store, but it is certainly one for doting aunties and grandparents to spoil their nieces and grandchildren. I do fear that with the economic climate... and the way that there are so few shops left in Grantham that it might not get enough business to keep it open. So if you are reading this... go buy some toys!

This charming Aladdin's cave of delights brands itself as being The Biggest Little Art Shop in the…read moreUniverse. Its size is certainly deceptive, Tardis-like even. On first arrival, you think the store ends at the counter - only to realise that there are many more delectable products in a room at the back. This quaint old store boasts a great range of products to delight art and craft lovers young and old. Everything from paints to pastels to polymer clay. Best of all, the staff are super friendly and knowledgeable - a rare quality missing from a lot of other places. They know their stuff and are never too busy to help you with your queries. The prices are very reasonable too compared to other art shops.

Pocklington Arts Centre, also known as the oak house, has gained a reputation for its live-events…read moreand film programmes, in only a short period of time. the venue, which has a 200-seat auditorium and 70-seat studio space, has provided film screenings, live music, theatre performances, comedy clubs, art exhibitions and conference facilities, since opening in 2000. before it re-opened it had been closed for a few years, it was originally a cinema with 2 screens and then it became an arcade and closed down. till the council took it over and it became the oak house Previous performers include: Barbara Dickson, Steve Harley, Midge Ure, Dave Gorman, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Curtis Stigers, Jenny Éclair, Barry Norman, John Hegley, Al Stewart to name but a few. when this place 1st opened it was a relief as the nearest cinema was around half an hours drive in any direction, but it has wierd opening times and don't open on a wednesday, so can't use orange wednesday tickets here! and most films shown, are later then the national release dates. but it has hosted some really nice indoor farmers markets? and school fares and productions. when midge ure played the tickets were literally sold out before the event was released! as the saying goes in pock, is its not what you know, but who you know! the cinema itself is basic, and seating is of the itchy kind but pleasant enough for the price you pay. but doesn't have the big screen appeal! it doesn't seem to hold that many day time events now, possibly because of the stupid 1 hour parking restrictions, in the town center!

Fantastic friendly venue. bigger than you might think with its acts too, most return over and over…read moreagain because of the wonderful atmosphere and great management. Gets some big names there due to the hard work of the staff. Good selection of films too, often blockbusters, but more suited to the more arty or foreign films popular amongst its regulars. The art exhibitions are usually of a high standard and well publicised. Definitely a venue to support.

If I had to describe this college into three words, it would be: Full of crap. I went to this…read morecollege with high hopes, thinking that it would be better than my old secondary school. It was worse. The first experience I had with the college was a few interviews, they showed me round the college and understood my mental health issues (or so I thought). They had promised me that they don't condone bullying and it will be handled immediately. I had previously been badly bullied in my secondary so when they promised me this I was quite relieved. My first day at this college was overwhelming. Which I understand first days can be stressful, the timetable was simple and it was easy to get around (at first). As the week progressed however people started talking about me behind my back. Something I didn't learn till one of my friends mentioned that someone had tried talking bad about me to them. I learned who this person was and immediately reported it to my tutor who said that it would be handled with. Over the span of the winter period things had not changed. As a matter of fact things got worse, I was starting to get harassed by a few students in the hallway and in classrooms. This lead me to report it and again they said "it would be handled with". In the meantime I swapped over to a new group for my course to be away from these few people that were harassing me. However this just made things worse as the group that I had joined was ahead of me in the course so I was really really far behind and I struggled really bad catching up. Cause I was so far behind on the course I noticed a change in my teachers behaviour which left a bad taste in my mouth. He started talking to me in a horrible and nasty tone and would give me really really bad looks. This really made me begin to hate the course. Time passed and the teachers just got worse with their attitude and their looks towards me. I no longer felt I could talk to them nor report any negative things from people. My mental health started to take an even bigger toll on me and I began not turning up to the college. I tried explaining to the teachers that my mental health was making it really hard for me to turn up but they just swiped it off their shoulders. I tried signing up for mental health sessions in the college but ultimately never heard back from them. Eventually I just gave up and stopped going to the college for weeks on end, my attendance went down and I just really didn't want to be there anymore. This lead me to my final straw and I just decided that I would not be going back there again. I signed up for a new college and said to myself that I would not be going back there ever again. This is just my experience there. I know some peoples experiences will be different, but if you care about your mental state then DO NOT GO HERE!

I left here in 2019 after my first year finished. I didn't come back for the second year. The…read morecollege was terrible and the college is just overrated. In 2019 their vice principal at time Kelly Rinaldi was growling at me when I was walking past her in the corridor. I remember when they refused to let me do Level 3 and A Level courses I wanted to do there and yet they were people who were resitting English and Maths GCSE courses which they failed at secondary school doing Level 3 and A Levels courses. There were people who weren't eligible doing Level 3 courses or A Levels courses there. Yet Leon Riley has the audacity to say in his meetings that everyone in the college doing A Level or Level 3 courses have English and Maths. When staff members spit facts at him he tells them off when he is lying about it. Leon Riley and Kelly Rinaldi were both stooges. Leon Riley, Kelly Rinaldi and higher ups all harass teachers while the teachers are teaching their students in lessons when they are doing teaching inspecting. Tons of staff members have left the college due to bad management and new rules in the college because of this the college barely has staff members now. The only reason why they get good results is because they kick students off courses if they don't do well. There were some people in my classes from Lincolnshire areas who had no qualifications or had barely any qualifications who got into this college. They let in everybody from the catchment areas for the college. So don't listen to the false advertisements or PR about this college. Their secondary school Leggott Academy which was running for a few years got shut down because they got the worst GCSE results in England. For the year 2018 to 2019 when I was there the college barely got any students in the college due to losing tons of students to different colleges. Also I was at the enrollment day event in 2018 there were loads of students there yet most of them didn't go to college. There was this teacher Julie Huntington who had a stroke in class and the ambulance came to college. She had a stroke because of stress from Leon Riley, Kelly Rinaldi and higher ups. In my Level 3 Art BTEC class there were a large number of students in my class but near the end of the course there were five people in the class because everyone else either dropped out of the college or got kicked out of the college for attendance and low grades results. Just a heads up the creative arts department in John Leggott College is the only good department in the college and they get the best results every year. I was doing these courses Level 3 Games Development and Level 3 BTEC Computing at the college for a few months when I first started the college. The college kicked me off both of the courses halfway through the courses and I also did a bunch of work for those courses. I even wrote a 1000 word essay during my summer holidays for the Level 3 Games Development summer task what a waste of time. The college kicked me off these courses and yet there were people who weren't eligible for the courses due to their qualifications that were allowed to do these courses and they kicked me off. Steph and Gren are both plonkers and the media department is the worst department in the college. Gren was growling at me when I walked past him in 2018. Gren messed a lot of people around and myself due to making promises which he didn't deliver. I remember when I was in Hungerhill in 2018 he said I was accepted for Level 3 Games Development but then he and his media department changed their minds last minute while I was doing the course in a span of a few months. The funny part is now I have a HND in Games Development and a Degree in Games Development. I was in this GCSE Maths resit class here for a year which had a bunch of chavy teenagers in class being cringe, disruptive, problematic and acting like they were in secondary school. Half of a year of the GCSE Maths course I was doing the teacher Celia didn't show up to the lessons. She didn't want to do the lessons because her excuses was she was too busy doing A-Levels lessons and A Levels Maths students are more important. So the college brought in a bunch of cover teachers from schools and other colleges. The cover teachers didn't know what they were doing because nobody informed them what they were supposed to do. Due to Celia, Jamie and other staff members in the Maths department being so bad and teaching me all the wrong stuff which wasn't in the Maths GCSE exam papers. I ended up teaching myself and revising the topics the teachers didn't cover in lessons which were in Maths GCSE exam papers in my own time. I ended up dropping out of the college after my first year there when I was 17 due to the college messing me around several times and the college was atrocious.