The Margate School (TMS) is an independent not-for-profit postgraduate liberal arts school. Situated across a former four storey Woolworths Building that had stood empty since 2008, The Margate School by its very nature has become a new hub for innovation and creativity in the heart of Margate and further afield.

Since opening in June 2019, TMS has developed three postgraduate courses including the first European Fine Art MA in the UK accredited by French art school ESADHaR, a Visual Communication and Sound Arts course, a gallery space, FabLab & Makerspace, over 30 studios, a screening room, two darkrooms, a café area and a community garden.

Its theme of Art, Society, Nature, aims to provide socially engaged and sustainability-driven programmes, delivered through knowledge sharing, collaboration and co-creation, peer-to-peer learning, sharing of space and technical facilities and thus enabling creative practitioners to realise their potential in a critically reflective way.