FUSEBOX
FUSEBOX is a creative playground in Kingston, a place for young people to produce work, try new things, learn, share and develop their talents.
The venue is available for hire and offers a flexible, open-plan space steeped in local heritage. It houses the footings of the original Kingston Bridge and a medieval Undercroft.
During summer 2025, FUSEBOX experienced two significant flooding incidents caused by a blockage in the building above, which resulted in burst pipes and overflowing toilets.
Despite over seven months of work with our venue partners to assess the damage and plan for recovery, the venue unfortunately remains closed to all activity.
While we had initially hoped to reopen in autumn 2025, and later January 2026, the situation is still unresolved.
As a result, all commercial hires are on hold, and our programmes for communities and young people have been postponed, cancelled, or relocated. The loss of FUSEBOX has taken away the beating heart of our organisation – the space where our team, emerging artists, vulnerable communities, and partners come together to connect, create, and share. Without it, the creative engine that fuels our work has been displaced, and the opportunities it provided have been put on pause.
The loss of FUSEBOX for over 7 months is a severe blow to our small charity. The venue generates 61% of Creative Youth’s total income, had been rapidly building momentum since its 2023 launch, and was set to host over 100 creative, educational, and community activities during this period—from mindful art sessions for young people struggling with mental health, to local schools exploring heritage, to residencies for emerging artists, to a vibrant performing arts programme spotlighting underrepresented performers.
We can’t wait to reopen stronger, safer, and more inspiring than ever.
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About FUSEBOX
FUSEBOX is a place for young people, emerging artists, key academic partners, and community organisations locally, nationally and internationally to come together. With innovation, diversity and inclusion at its heart, it is a multi-functional space, with areas for performance, exhibitions, creative practice, socialising, co-creation and more.
It is a home to FUSE International and our Creative Talent artists. The venue will evolve in close collaboration with young people and the local arts community. In short it will be your space, to build your future.
FUSEBOX is available for hire in its entirety as an open-plan venue, or has two exhibition spaces surrounded by the historic Kingston Bridge. The space also hosts BOX Bar & Café.
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