Welcome to Leith Community Pottery CIC.
A Social Enterprise with a three-fold purpose:
1. Producing high quality, reduction-fired stoneware for retail and by commission.
2. Offering 10 week courses, weekend workshops, 1-2-1 tuition and group experiences in pottery & ceramics.
3. Offering free & donation based access to courses and workshops to those living with poor mental health, dementia, social exclusion and isolation.
Courses with The Potter of Leith
We offer courses and workshops throughout the year, many with a specialist focus on the potter’s wheel.
We aim to offer free and subsidised access to classes and workshops to those living with poor mental health, social isolation or exclusion.
Beautiful, unique stoneware.
Trading as The Potter of Leith, we produce top quality, high-fired stoneware.
Products include domestic ware and one-off pieces. We supply cafes, bars and restaurants with bespoke tableware.
Reduction Firing in our Gas Kiln.
Leith Community Pottery is home to a unique, gas-fired reduction kiln, one of very few in Edinburgh. Reduction is a highly specialised and increasingly rare technique, used to produce unique and inimitable glazes and finishes in ceramics.
Interested in learning more?
Our next course starts soon. Join us!
Art school made me a potter, and so I am. In the bones, in the blood.
Andy Lang
The Potter of Leith
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What's been happening at Leith Community Pottery?
Clay Time!
Saturday 9th October 2021, 2 – 4pm As part of NHS Scotland’s Thrive Fest#2 Programme, Leith Community Pottery is running a FREE HANDBUILDING WORKSHOP to
Leith Community Pottery CIC – First AGM
Leith Community Pottery CIC will be holding its first Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 22nd June at 7pm. The meeting will be conducted on line,
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2021
https://www.mhfestival.com/ Leith Community Pottery has received NHS funding to run 2 FREE “CLAY THERAPY” WORKSHOPS as part of this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
