Information for all Workshops and Courses

Fees

The price for our 4-week throwing workshops is £160 for all four sessions, all materials and firing of your pots. To reserve a place on the course full payment of £160 is required for each person attending the Throwing Course.

The cost of the Hand-building classes is £12 per 2-hour session and £15 for a 2-hour 30-minute session. The firing fee for hand-built work is £15 per kilo.

Class sizes & studio use

• Bookings for wheels will be limited to 8 people per session.
• Bookings for Hand Building will be limited to 12 people per session.
• Bookings for Glazing pots will be limited to 4 people per session.

All the people who attend and book a place on one of the sessions will only have the use of the area in the studio they have booked and will work in that area for the whole of the 2 hour session. This is to keep everyone as safe as we possibly can with the limited number of people in the studio at one time.

What to wear

Sensible clothing must be worn for these sessions as you are using an electrically powered pottery wheel that must be used correctly.

Please wear clothes that you don’t mind getting clay on as it can be a little messy.

Please do not wear any clothes that are to loose or have anything that could get trapped in the wheel and Please wear sensible footwear, so no open-toe shoes, no flip flops and no high heels as you will need your feet to control the wheel’s speed. Also, if you have long nails this will make learning to throw a difficult task as your nails will interfere with the throwing technique.

​Aprons will be provided to everyone who comes to the pottery which will help to keep some of the clay off your clothes but not all of it.

When deposits for reservations have been made for the workshops and courses these are non-refundable if the workshop or course is cancelled less than 31 days before the start as it will not give us enough time to fill the place again in that short time. If a full payment is made then we will refund half of the payment unless it is less than 2 weeks before the start date of your workshop or course. When a deposit is made, an agreement of these terms has been made between Hands On Pottery and the buyer.

All pots that have been made on the throwing workshops and courses will be stored for 2 months after they have been fired in the kiln, after this time if the pots have not been collected we will have to dispose of them as we do not have the space to keep them for longer. If an arrangement has been made with us that the pots are collected at a later date then we will keep them until that date and dispose of them if they are not collected on the arranged date. This is also part of the agreement and terms made between Hands On Pottery and Students when payment is made.

Thank you for your understanding.