We’ve recently welcomed Karen Hart to The Mill team, she will be helping us develop the Build The Mill project. Hello. I’m Karen and I started working with The Mill as project co-ordinator for Build The Mill on 6 April this year. That was 16 days after the building closed, and so my groundwork has […]
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Volunteer’s Week 2020 – Thank you!
1 – 7 June is Volunteer’s Week and we want to take the opportunity to thank all our volunteers for their hard work and support they give to our local community. The Covid-19 outbreak has meant we have had to change a lot of things at very short notice and our volunteers have been helping […]
Restarting The Mill
We’re thinking about how we’re going to reopen The Mill, and start doing activities again. We know that we will have to do things differently, and we’ve got lots of ideas on how to make it happen. We’ll be taking all the guidelines into account, but we also want to know what our users, volunteers […]
Get Drawing Online!
As The Mill building is closed, David, from our Get Drawing Group, will be sharing drawing prompts and tips every Sunday. We’re collecting them all here, so you can take part at your own pace. We’d love to see you all get involved, get drawing and sharing your art work with The Mill Online. Week […]
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 […]
The Mill is deeply saddened by the loss of George Law
Everyone here at The Mill is deeply saddened to hear that our friend and supporter George Law has passed away. George was a regular and much-loved volunteer at The Mill for many years. He first visited in 2013 and quickly became an invaluable and creative member of The Coppermill Poets poetry group. He was soon […]
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 […]