Your Station Your Community

To mark 200 years of the railway, we were awarded funding through Govia Thameslink Railway’s Your Station, Your Community Improvement Fund to deliver a programme of creative, youth-led placemaking at Bexhill station.

Through our Blueprint Go initiative, young people are working with professional artists to improve the station environment, develop new skills, and create a shared visual language that reflects the identity of Bexhill. The programme focuses on making the station more welcoming and vibrant, while giving young people a meaningful role in shaping a key public space in their town.

The activity includes a station-wide visual identity and wayfinding project developed by young people working with artist Lucy Grainge; large-scale planters designed, built and planted with artists Beccy McCray and Makermark; a permanent light installation in the ticket hall created with Bexhill Academy Art Scholar students and artist Jenny McNamara; and a new exhibition wall showcasing local community arts work. Together, these interventions embed creativity across the station, greening public spaces, and establish a place to share future community-led and socially engaged projects with the wider community.

The revolving exhibition wall will be 6 large frames on one of the platforms, which will showcase community centred projects from across the local area. These will be changed quarterly, and artists and projects will be able to apply to show their work.

The first exhibition on the platforms is an extended six-month presentation of work created by the Young Creatives Collective across the year, developed during their residency at Flatland Projects in summer 2025.