ABOUT US

Pottery Village Ltd. was founded in October 2007 by NIDA – the Nidzica Development Foundation. The social enterprise was created on the initiative of Nidzica’s partnership as part of the Project “Towards the Polish model of social economy – building new Lisków” – introduced by the European Union Program EQUAL.

 

The President of the management board of the Pottery Village is Barbara Tyszka, and members of the supervisory board are: Krzysztof Margol, Bogdan Kalinowski and Alina Naparta.

 

The enterprise employs 10 people. The subject of the business activity of the Pottery Village is craft production: tailor’s and ceramic products, souvenirs, handmade paper. The Village organizes training sessions, seminars and conferences as well as stained glass making workshops, ceramic workshops, production of handmade paper and glass painting. In the future, there will be also a smithy in the Pottery Village. The main product of the Village is Mazurian style wedding reception during which you can taste the dishes made following old recipes and take part in the reception full of singing and dancing to folk music.

 

The Pottery Village organizes study visits for representatives of local government, non-governmental organizations and businesses. In the Villge functions the Local Partnership Academy – training and advisory program in the field of creating partnerships for development.

 

The ‘Pottery Village’ brand offers:

• Unique products and services
• Placing them in tradition
• Quality resulting from proven technologies and centuries-old tradition
• Meeting client’s expectations

 

The Pottery Village is located in Kamionka near Nidzica, which is called the GATE TO  MAZURY. We cooperate with other organizations, members of the POTTERY VILLAGE TOURISTIC CLUSTER and together we invite to do the shopping of local products, to see the Mazurian fair, to take part in study visits, trainings, craft workshops, conferences and Mazurian style wedding receptions.

 

Partners and sponsor of the enterprise:

 

One of the main products of the Pottery Village is the Mazurian style wedding reception – tourist attraction and an idea for the newlyweds.

 

The Pottery Village combines entrepreneurship and promotion of local history and culture. Considering the ancient craft skills and forgotten professions it will give opportunities to employment for tens of local villages inhabitants. The project is demonstrative in nature, it shows a place and function of the past craft technologies. It also presents their profitability in modern and competitive market. We hope that it will become a specific concept for development for agricultural regions, and an example for villages inhabitants of how to earn money.

 

The Pottery Village is a partnership project.

 

The function of the NIDA Foundation was to coordinate the Project and to start the whole enterprise, encouraging local people to take part in it, making  vocational training for the unemployed and helping to promote the products and services of this unusual social business in the country.

 

Partners in making of this enterprise were: the County Labour Office in Nidzica, the County Government Office in Nidzica, the Nidzica Local Fund, the Practical Educational Centre, the Business Service Office – Katarzyna and Piotr Wiejak, DREHABUD General Partnership in Nidzica, the Association for the Mentally Challenged near Nidzica, the Commune of Janowo and the Commune of Nidzica. Partners and sponsors outside Nidzica’s region are: the Institute of Public Affairs, the Rural Development Foundation, the Civil Society, the Academy for the Development of Philanthropy in Warsaw, the European Fund for Polish Rural Area Development. Partnerships from Ełk, Biłgoraj and Lublin as well as foreign partners from Italy, Belgium and Netherlands are all sharing their experiences with us.

 

 

The Pottery Village is running a store with local products.

All products are handmade according to old technologies.

 

• Ceramic products
• Tailors products
• Handmade paper
• Souvenirs
• Company gifts
• Pots of honey

 

The Pottery Village organizes trainings in the domain of:

-         Setting up social enterprises

-         Business plan of a social enterprise

-         Setting up local partnerships for development

-         Social enterprise marketing

-         European Union funds acquisition

-         Financing the activities in the field of social economy

 

The Pottery Village organizes study visits upon:

-         local tourist product

-         using European union funds for local development

-         local development projects realized in partnership

 

The Pottery Village invites to workshops in the domain of:

-         pottery for the beginners and advanced

-         handmade paper production

-         stained glass making

-         weaving and wicker-work

-         tailoring

-         bouquet making

 

For the companies we offer organization of integration parties, Mazurian evenings and conferences of unique atmosphere. We invite you for regional fairs and artistic open airs. We are eager to cooperate with other organizations in the field of exchanging experiences and common projects for the development of the villages and rural regions.

 

   

Partners and sponsors of the enterprise:

• THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
• RURAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
• ACADEMY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILANTROPY IN POLAND