This year we’re celebrating our tenth birthday. We’re so proud of all we have achieved together and of our Grow Your Idea programme which has supported over 40 people to try out their idea for group projects and engaged hundreds of people in a huge variety of group activities. To celebrate our 10th year, we’re […]
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Tales from The Mill Project Manager – Call for Tenders
The Mill is seeking an experienced project manager and oral history practitioner to manage the Tales from The Mill oral history project during summer 2021. The Mill is a volunteer-led community hub founded 10 years ago by the local community in the old St James Street local library building in this diverse area of Walthamstow. […]
Grow Your Idea: Moving Forward – Discovering what I can do!
In 2020, Chantraine Dance ran online seated dance classes at The Mill through Grow Your Idea and Milling About. The classes explored how Chantraine dance can energise bodies, minds and feelings. In April 2021, when lockdown restrictions eased, a group of dancers took their class outdoors. They danced in front of the William Morris Gallery […]
Grow your idea online or outdoors!
Do you have an idea for an online or outdoor group or activity that promotes wellbeing and brings people together? Grow Your Idea from The Mill could offer you support with planning and promoting your sessions and a grant for your work and materials. For an application form and more information contact kim@themille17.org or call […]
Mo Gallaccio retires from her role with Art Works
Mo Gallaccio has recently announced her retirement from her role as The Mill’s Art Works coordinator. Mo was one of the original Trustees of The Mill, and was an instrumental part of the team who campaigned to save the old St James Street library building and turn it into a space for the community. Her […]
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 […]
Fundraising Thank You!
We’re really grateful to have received generous support from the Foyle Foundation, City Bridge Trust, Waltham Forest Council, St James Big Local and Tesco Bags of Help in the last few weeks. Their contributions will help us in our efforts to reopen safely and to keep supporting our community during this difficult time. We’d also […]
Welcome to Karen Hart our Build The Mill Project Co-ordinator
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 […]
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 […]