The Children’s Room is open!

We’re really pleased to let you know that our Children’s Room has reopened at last! Our Children’s Room is a fun, free space for babies and toddlers to play with their parents and carers. The room is open to everyone during our public opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 10am – 3pm Saturday and Sunday: 10am […]

Children’s Room Update

Sadly, the Children’s Room is currently closed until we can reopen it safely in line with the guidelines. Supporting local parents and young children is a priority for us, so we’re looking at how we can do that in other ways, and reopening the Children’s Room as soon as we’re able to do so. We’ll […]

Join us for Milling About!

We’re really excited to launch our new project Milling About! Milling About is our programme of activities online and out and about in our local area, to support our local community and to connect people whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place. We’ve received funding from the London Community Response Fund, administered by the City Bridge […]

The Kids Art Club online

We’ve taken our Kid’s Art Club online! Every Thursday we’ll share an activity you can do with simple materials from around the home on our social media. All the activities have been designed by our Kids Art Club volunteer Gemma Lawrence. We’d love to see you all get involved, get making and sharing your creations […]

A Mill Rainbow!

🌈 Help create the rainbow in our window at The Mill.🌈 We want to fill our front window with a rainbow made with colourful hands. Everyone can take part, here’s how: Draw round your hand on a piece of paper Cut it out Decorate it with one of the colours of the rainbow 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 Send […]

Creative Isolation

We’ve spotted lots of online creative challenges and group activities in the last few weeks. Here’s some that we’re running, as well as others by local Walthamstow creatives: Kids Art Club Every Thursday as part of #TheMillOnline A creative activity you can try (young or old) put together by Gemma from The Mill’s Thursday afternoon […]

Philosophy Penguin Presents… Philosophy for 3 & 4 year olds

Picture this: a group of three and four-year-olds challenging the world through words and maximising their freedom through independent critical thought. That’s exactly what ‘Philosophy Penguin Presents …’ offers; an opportunity for young children to discuss what they think, why they think what they do and how what they think differs from others. Neil Wilcock […]

Bringing ‘Grandad’s Island’ to life throughout the summer

We were delighted to welcome lots of families to ‘The Mill Shipyard’ during this summer’s Walthamstow Garden Party, to bring to life the picture book ‘Grandad’s Island’ by local author-illustrator Benji Davies. Children helped to create a colourful boat, inspired by the ship that transports Grandad and Syd on their adventure in the award winning […]

Share what The Mill means to you!

In 2018, we will have a new website, you might have noticed some changes already.  Our aim for the site is for visitors to get a real feel of what The Mill is all about, one way will be to have lots of photographs.  Please help us by putting up your shots of what The Mill […]