AN ARTIST behind a successful creative project has called for a permanent centre for the arts to be formed in Chorley.

Paul Hodgson, of Chorley Arts and Crafts Collective, which have been running a week long project for children's Arts and Crafts Workshops at 34 Market Street, Chorley.

The funding for the project came from a £5,000 art grant.

Now Paul wants the arts to be made available to all of Chorley's public -- not just children.

Some of that grant is to be used in projects in the run up to Christmas but woodturner Paul would like to make the whole scheme sustainable and eventually self-sufficient.

Paul said: "What happens with arts and crafts is that there is intense activity for a short period of time and then people don't get anything for ages.

"That is where it falters, it takes time for groups to get together. If there was a centre for arts and crafts in Chorley we could take this on further."

"It really has been getting better and better.

And Paul added that parents were to be targeted in the future to create art as well as children.

He said: "In the future we would like to do some evening things for the parents to come down as well.

"We could charge them a couple of pounds and make it self-sufficient.

A spokesman from Chorley Borough Council said that further ways of funding arts and crafts projects were being looked into, especially making schemes self-sufficient.