The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre (known as the Havant Arts Centre until 2009) is an

arts centre An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues fo ...

Havant Havant ( ) is a town in the south-east corner of Hampshire, England between Portsmouth and Chichester. Its borough (population: 125,000) comprises the town (45,826) and its suburbs including the resort of Hayling Island as well as Rowland's Cast ...

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

, England. Containing a small

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

(135 seats), the arts centre is used for professional and amateur

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

of all kinds, dance, to show films and for community groups to meet. It is a regular performance venue for the following partner groups: Bench Theatre Company, Havant Light Opera, HumDrum Theatre Company, and Havant Dynamo Youth Theatre. It is also the base for the music project charity, Music Fusion (the trading name of Fusion Plus, a Charity Registered in England and Wales no: 1128586). The centre is run by The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre Company (registered in Wales 20888483), which is a Registered

Charity Charity may refer to: Giving * Charitable organization or charity, a non-profit organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being of persons * Charity (practice), the practice of being benevolent, giving and sharing * C ...

. (Registration Number 297353). Funding comes from the state via

Hampshire County Council Hampshire County Council (HCC) is an English council that governs eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire. As one of twenty-four county councils in England, it acts as the upper tier of ...

and Havant Borough Council. The centre director from 2003 to 2012 was Amanda O'Reilly. The current centre director is Sophie Fullerlove.

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