🌈 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 […]
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FollowCreative 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 […]
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 […]
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!
Announcing the Grow Your Idea 2 winners!
We are really pleased to introduce the Grow Your Idea 2 competition winners, who will all be organising activities at The Mill over the next few months. Rasheeqa and Yanire: The Herbalistic Journal Project A creative collaboration between an artist and a herbalist in Walthamstow, our project seeks to connect our wild green spaces with […]
The Mall Charity Cares Thank You!
A big thank you to The Mall, Walthamstow for their support in 2017! We were delighted to be the Mall Cares Charity Partner in 2017. As well as raising over £4000 for our work, The Mall also gave us donations of much-needed equipment, publicity support, raffle prizes, and a new home for The Mill elephant. […]
We’re celebrating Book Giving Day!
14 February 2018 10am – 6pm FREE Celebrate reading with us! We will be giving away free children’s books for younger children on Book Giving Day, 14 February 2018. First come, first served. Thank you to the kind donation of books from our friends Child’s Play Books and Tidy Books!