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Join the people-powered campaign to keep creativity alive in Leicester

Two Queens, the independent art gallery and studios at the heart of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter, needs you. 

We’re a grass-roots champion for freedom of artistic expression and we create access to art that enriches and brings meaning to the lives of people in our community. Art that can be both courageous and challenging, whilst also serving a therapeutic purpose for our wellbeing. Art that is created by and for the community in Leicester and beyond.  

As an artist-run space that has endured for over 12 years, Two Queens has become part of the artistic fabric of Leicester, as well as holding significant national influence within the wider Contemporary Art community. Two Queens pushes boundaries, stimulates thought, challenges the status quo and provokes discussion. It moves us forward through new creativity and progressive ideas and brings fresh, bold vibrancy and vitality to its local community.

But without your support, all of this is at risk. 

In March 2025 our lease at 2 Queen Street will expire. Our landlords will be selling the building and we have no right to remain as tenants. So, this Summer, we urgently need your support to help us buy the building, ensuring Two Queens can continue its work in the long term. If we owned the building we would also be able to improve it and make it a better public space that meets everyone’s needs. To buy it, we are working to raise money through grant funding and through investment from you, our community, inviting those who care about our work to come together and save an important cultural asset at risk. 

Access to art should belong to all of us. 

For Two Queens to continue, we need people-power. We need people like you, who believe in the arts, to come together and invest as a community in the future of Two Queens. 

Through our Community Share Offer you can take a share in the ownership of Two Queens.  Owner Packages start at £50, with options to spread the cost of investment from £5 a month. 

As an owner you will be proudly helping to keep the doors open and the studio thriving. You will be enriching lives through art, for years to come.

Full details for this share offer can be found in the share offer document and business plan at the bottom of this page. These documents set out our plans, explain what a community share offer is, and contain more detail on Two Queens’ operations and financial performance. Please read both documents before deciding whether investment is right for you. 

Because access to art should belong to all of us, Two Queens invites members of our community to invest and help us secure our long-term future.

Find out more about our Community Share Offer at: https://2queens.com/community-share-offer/
Become an owner today on Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/twoqueens