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 […]
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FollowThe Mill Quiz 2019 – Thank you!
Thank you to supporters and participants of this year’s Mill Quiz! This year’s quiz was held on 23 April at Ye Olde Rose & Crown pub in Hoe Street. Six teams of Walthamstow’s wisest and wittiest competed in a classic quiz of 8 rounds , culminating in a grand finale and medal ceremony when members […]
Feel Good Thursday’s Funding
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve received funding from The National Lottery Community Fund Awards for All to pilot a new weekly drop-in social group for adults, Feel Good Thursdays. Every week there will be a chance to try well being enhancing activities, refreshments and visiting speakers/taster sessions – anything to help you feel good mentally or […]
The Jokes On Us! exhibition story
Our exciting new participatory art exhibition, The Joke’s On Us! launches on the 11th April. It is part of the Waltham Forest Borough of Culture 2019, featuring work from the Government Art Collection, and potentially showcasing your finest joke… Display your joke next to a famous artwork We are asking residents and people from anywhere in the […]
The Joke’s on Us!
Take part in our new participatory exhibition, The Joke’s On Us, centring on Joke Stack by Peter Liversidge, part of the Government Art Collection. You can take home jokes originally written by British comedians… and leave your jokes for our walls! We’re making a dynamic, daring and… devilishly amusing contribution to Waltham Forest Borough of […]
Thank you to St Barnabas Sunday Concerts
A massive thank you Gillian Keith and Tom Randle and everyone at St Barnabas Sunday Concerts for fundraising for The Mill at most recent their concert “That’s All Folks”, on the 27 January 2019. The concert raised a fantastic £300 for The Mill, and we are all very grateful for their kind support!
Help us Grow Your Tenner!
Grow Your Tenner is back! We’re taking part in Grow Your Tenner again this year. If you set up a regular donation of up to £10 to support The Mill for a year though Localgiving, they will double it for six months! The campaign launches at 10am on Tuesday 11 of December 2018. The Mill […]
Thank you to our local Londis
We are very grateful to JD, who is known to many as owner and manager of Londis on Coppermill Lane, over the next year the shop will be donating to The Mill all proceeds from the shop’s 5p plastic carrier bag charge. Our local open-all-hours corner shops are a great community resource and now there’s another way you can […]
Our Story So Far Exhibition – Summer 2018
The Our Story So Far Exhibition took place during Summer 2018, it was our opportunity to celebrate The Mill. We took a step back to see how far we’ve come, consider where we are now, and took a step forward towards what the future could possibly bring. Our art producer was Alison Dunne. Alongside the […]
Room to live
Did you know that the British staple, tomato ketchup, came to us via the Cantonese word ‘kher-chap’. Cultural exchanges are a great way to stimulate opportunities to share new skills alongside ways of looking and using everyday objects. My interest in diversity has been inspired by local architect and university lecturer Kristin Trommler and architecture […]