Oxford City Council worked alongside Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, to redevelop the Old Fire Station, after a bid was awarded funding from the Government's Places of Change Programme. This was an exciting project for Kingerlee as we were involved in building the original fire station in 1896!

The Old Fire Station is home to a new Crisis Skylight Centre providing education, training and employment opportunities for homeless and vulnerably housed people and a social enterprise. The Crisis Skylight Cafe is open to the public.

There are high-quality, flexible spaces for artistic professional development and training, and for community groups to use to offer performance and visual arts events, regular classes and courses for the public. These spaces accommodate an auditorium, a gallery and retail space, and a creative workspace for artists and designers.

The Old Fire Station opened as a working fire station in 1896 and remained the main fire station until 1971!