Create wins four Koestler Trust Awards!
One of the books from our Inside Stories project, in which young offenders write, record and illustrate original stories for their children under the guidance of our professional writer, musician and...
View ArticleInside Stories
Inside Stories is our creative writing and illustration project for prison inmates at HMP & YOI Rochester. In January 2013, over a two-week period, Create’s professional writer and visual artist...
View ArticleFilming moving:images
During spring 2013, 10 adults with learning disabilities from Tower Project took part in our moving:images film-making project. Here Judith (29) gives her reflections: “I have been coming to the Tower...
View ArticleMore Creative ~ Redriff
During January and February 2013, More Creative ~ Redriff brought together 42 autistic and non-autistic children at Redriff Primary School for a sensory music project. Janie Ewing, the school’s Autism...
View ArticleKingston young carers photos get published!
Today has been a very exciting one for us here at Create and for a very special group of our participants. A key objective of every Create programme is to help raise participants’ self-esteem; and...
View Articleinspired:arts ~ Kojo
In collaboration with Carers Support Merton (CSM), Create delivered a series of workshops as part of its inspired:arts programme for young carers in 2012/13. The project reached 32 young carers aged...
View ArticleCreate’s and Daytrippers’ joint 10th birthday party!
On Sunday 28 April, we partnered with charity Daytrippers to celebrate our joint 10th birthday with a creative:space birthday party for disabled children and their families. Using the format of our...
View ArticleBritish Actress, Lorraine Chase, unveils “an act of love” at Carers Lewisham
This morning, I had the very great pleasure of attending the unveiling by British Actress, Lorraine Chase, of a new mural at Carers Lewisham. This was created by the staff team there under the...
View ArticleThe Rank Foundation awards Create £84,000 grant
We have today received the first payment of a very important new three-year grant from The Rank Foundation. Working as we do with the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in our society, this was...
View ArticleOur exclusive preview evening is almost here!
Our Exclusive Preview Evening of the Society of Women Artists’ (SWA) 152nd Annual Summer Exhibition at Mall Galleries on Tuesday 25 June is only a few days away now! The exhibition will showcase...
View Articlecreative:space ~ a participant’s perspective
We just received an open letter from our creative:space regular and Daytripper’s young ambassador, Riah Hedger about our creative:space events for children with disabilities & their families! It’s...
View ArticleSociety of Women Artists’ Exclusive Preview raises £4,296 … and counting
Last night, we collaborated for the fourth time with The Society of Women Artists (SWA), which generously gave us the Preview Evening of its stunning 152nd annual exhibition at Mall Galleries. In a...
View Articleart:space, project for young carers, recognised with prestigious award
Last Thursday, I attended Business in the Community’s (BITC) South East Responsible Awards Gala Dinner as a guest of our long-term corporate partner, British Land. Indeed, British Land supported our...
View ArticleAn underwater world of snakes, sharks, submarines, swimmers and sea grass
Yesterday morning I attended an inspiring, hour-long workshop in the children’s ward at University Hospital Lewisham as part of our ArtsAdventures programme for young patients. Four children and four...
View ArticleCreate awarded £480,000 grant from The Queen’s Trust
I am delighted to announce some very exciting news. The Queen’s Trust, which exists to enable and encourage young people to help others, has awarded us a transformational grant of £480,000 over three...
View ArticleCreate on the radio!
On Friday 23 August, our CEO Nicky Goulder made her way to the BBC Three Counties Radio headquarters for an interview with Roberto Perrone on Drivetime. Cue lots of laughter, chat about what Create...
View ArticleInside Stories wins five Koestler Awards including a Platinum Award
Our Inside Stories project has been recognised with five Koestler Awards. These prestigious accolades recognise the creative achievements of offenders, secure patients and detainees, providing...
View ArticleVisit to Arundel Castle
Thanks to the generosity and kindness of The Duchess of Norfolk and a group of her friends, we were given the opportunity to take 30 children from Hallfield and St Vincent’s primary schools on a very...
View Articlecreative:space returns to Milton Keynes
On Sunday 27 October, we returned to The Stables in Milton Keynes with creative:space, our interactive music event for disabled children and their families, thanks to funding from BBC Children in Need....
View ArticleJiggling jellyfish in Cumbria
Winning the Clarins Most Dynamisante Woman of the Year Award in June, as I did, has had two significant impacts on Create: a four-page feature in the 16 June issue of You Magazine that helped to raise...
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