Grow Your Own Mushrooms

Saturday 10 September 2pm-4pm Free Learn the basics of mushroom cultivation using various techniques using grain, straw and wood for growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms such as oyster, reishi and shiitake mushrooms. This is a free workshop as part of Cultivate, a nine day festival of urban food growing in Waltham Forest. See website for […]

Community Sing – Sunday 5 October

Good for the soul and no experience necessary! Join The Mill on Fun Palace Sunday where three community choirs (British Gospel Arts 4 Life, Natural Voices Children’s Choir and Waltham Forest Community Choir) will teach groups new songs and the afternoon will culminate in everyone coming together for a community sing. http://themill-coppermill.org/fun-palace-news/

Plenty for kids over the Fun Palace weekend

Plenty for kids over the Fun Palace weekend at The Mill (4-5 October) –       Construct a Giant Elephant –       Make shadow puppet jungle animals and try them out, inventing your own stories in the Story Machine. –       Come and make costumes for a jungle parade – All creatures big and small. Don’t forget to bring them along for […]

The Fun Palace is for everyone – help make it happen.

Could you be part of our Volunteer team? Help Vanessa and Kate in the Children’s Room – making the Elephant Help artists in the Drawing Room Help the Memory Catchers in the Living Room Help record the weekend, take photos or collect feedback Help by making everyone feel welcome Help decorate The Mill Knitters needed […]

Do you want to train as a MEMORY CATCHER?

Age charities report that many people feel isolated and rarely talk to anyone. We are running a series of four sessions to enable people to train as “Memory Catchers”, to engage with older people and encourage them to share memories and reminisce over the Fun Palace weekend (and hopefully beyond at regular social events at […]