Our Children’s Room is a fun, free space for babies and toddlers to play with their parents and carers. The room is open to everyone during our public opening hours: Tuesday to Friday: 10am – 3pm Saturday and Sunday: 10am – 2pm We’ve made a few changes : We’ll be rotating toys to help us […]
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Holiday Kids Art Workshops to celebrate our 10th Birthday!
Get creative this summer to celebrate The Mill’s 10th birthday! Join us for our series of free hands-on workshops for children aged 4 and over in our friendly community space, led by local artists. We’re running three workshops on Thursday’s during the school holidays, with a choice of two different times each day. Create your own party chameleon […]
Children’s Room Update
Sadly, the Children’s Room is currently closed until we can reopen it safely in line with the guidelines. Supporting local parents and young children is a priority for us, so we’re looking at how we can do that in other ways, and reopening the Children’s Room as soon as we’re able to do so. We’ll […]
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 […]
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 […]
Artworks is launching The Mill’s Art Cart
Sunday 12 November 11am – 1pm FREE All welcome Get Drawing! The Art Cart is an addition to The Mill’s Art Works programme. It will always be furnished with paper and great coloured pencils for the enjoyment of adults and children. Join us for some still-life drawing Sunday 12 November, 11 am to 1pm. With […]
Footfall
17 – 18 November 2017, 6pm – 9pm FREE! Everybody welcome, suitable for 5 years to adult Esther Neslen and Litza Jansz are creating a large-scale animation of people who traverse our end of the High Street. We’ll be using all kinds of unusual materials and projections and working fast. Come along to watch, and […]
Our annual Halloween Party was a roaring success!
A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween event. It was very busy, and we hope you will agree, lots of fun! We raised over £400.00 for The Mill! Thank you to our volunteers who helped make the day spooktacular! There are more fantastic pictures on our Facebook page.