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Workshops for schools and young people

Browse our creative workshops for schools and other youth groups (more are uploaded weekly) If you can't find what you want please send us an enquiry and we will do our best to fulfil your request

The creative workshops below are all super fun and highly educational… and they're run by workshop leaders who are:

  • CRB checked and have public liability insurance
  • personally vetted by our founder Sissy Rooney
  • highly talented and respected in their field
  • experienced at working with young people from a range of backgrounds

 

Personal Development  Shout Out About Your Skills

Personal Development Shout Out About Your Skills

You,ve got a lot of skills, don't hide them! In this interactive drama workshop you will learn how to confidently present your best traits to your future employer.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations

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Getting Your Ideas Across - A Communication Workshop

Getting Your Ideas Across - A Communication Workshop

Listen up - this school workshop teaches students effective communication skills to get their ideas across loudly and clearly to each other and the world at large.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Over 50's, Adults

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Drama, Creative Arts & Media - Location, locality, locale

Drama, Creative Arts & Media - Location, locality, locale

This workshop looks at the ideas and perceptions that young people have regarding the area in which they live.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Teacher Training

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Drama workshop - Words, words, words

Drama workshop - Words, words, words

The perfect chance for young people to learn about the importance of communication, and the ways we can share our feelings with each other.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Teacher Training

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Drama, Creative Arts & Media - Our digital world

Drama, Creative Arts & Media - Our digital world

Ever wondered what the future might hold? In this drama workshop, there are many activities for young people, such as getting involved in performance, creative writing, multimedia and craft, in order to explore the technological advances in the world around us.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, Arts Award, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Libraries & Museums

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Dragons Den Product Design and Pitch

Dragons Den Product Design and Pitch

Your pupils have a lot of business and enterprise skills, don't let them hide them! In this highly engaging dragons den style workshop they will try their hand at designing a product to pitch to the dragons.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums

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Designing the Things We Live With, a Creative Design Workshop

Designing the Things We Live With, a Creative Design Workshop

This creative workshop will take attendees through the entirety of the product design process from start to end - showing them how to take their idea and turn it into a reality

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, Libraries & Museums, Over 50's, Adults, Teacher Training

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Cool funk-style / Streetdance workshop

Cool funk-style / Streetdance workshop

Learn how to express yourself through funk style dancing! After this workshop students will be popping and locking like champions.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Kids Parties & Events

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Streetdance and Breakdance workshop

Streetdance and Breakdance workshop

This high octane workshop introducing your young people to the foundations of breakdance & streetdance.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Kids Parties & Events

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Dance Workshop - Party Time! All Styles

Dance Workshop - Party Time! All Styles

Our 'Party Time!' dance workshop is a big favourite with young people wanting to emulate their dance heroes (and heroines)

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, SEN, Early Years, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Kids Parties & Events

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Dance Workshop - All Styles

Dance Workshop - All Styles

This in-demand dance workshop covers a range of dance styles, such as hip hop, musical theatre and break dance

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Kids Parties & Events

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Journey of the Circus

Journey of the Circus

This workshop takes participants on an exciting tour of the various circus disciplines including juggling, hula hooping, poi and plate spinning. Over the course of the session they can learn the foundations of circus skills is a fun, non-competitive environment.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, NEETS, YOTS, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Kids Parties & Events

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Drama & Performance - So you think you're funny?

Drama & Performance - So you think you're funny?

Spend the day in good company with plenty of comedy and jokes, while also hearing about how a successful adult, Ruth, got into stand up comedy

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Arts Award, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Adults

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Performance - How to use laughter & humour to de-stress! (Great for a school assembly)

Performance - How to use laughter & humour to de-stress! (Great for a school assembly)

With the aid of a creative facilitator, this performance workshop for schools and young people enables them to discover their 'humour triggers' and how to use them, in order to help them deal with stressful situations in both a positive and fun way.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Adults

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Interactive Health and Wellbeing workshops

Interactive Health and Wellbeing workshops

This interactive drama style workshop looks at topics of health and wellbeing and can be tailored to suit a variety of groups and topics such as sexual health, personal hygiene, safe sex, obesity & body image, drug taking and misuse - legal and illegal, bullying

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums

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Lyrically Literate Music & Rap Workshops

Lyrically Literate Music & Rap Workshops

Our Music workshops give young people the opportunity to creatively and critically express themselves by writing and performing their own songs and raps!

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, Arts Award, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums

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Wicked Beat-Breakers Music Workshop

Wicked Beat-Breakers Music Workshop

Have fun learning, writing and creating your own beats with Beat Breakers fabulous music workshop!

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, Arts Award, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Kids Parties & Events

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Rap & Poetry  One-Track Race

Rap & Poetry One-Track Race

This creative writing workshop for schools will examine, expand, and express cultural awareness and understanding of diversity through modern verse.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums

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Stop Motion Animation Creative Workshop

Stop Motion Animation Creative Workshop

This creative workshop for schools helps students create their own stop motion animations, from teaching the methods to watching their final product on YouTube.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, SEN, Key Stage 1 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Housing Associations, Libraries & Museums, Over 50's, Adults, Teacher Training, Kids Parties & Events

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Science & Music youth workshop - Noisy boxes

Science & Music youth workshop - Noisy boxes

This science and music workshop allows young people to work in groups to complete various experiments with sound and electronics.

Workshops & activities suitable for:
Young People , Youth Organisations, Curriculum Enrichment workshop, Key Stage 2 - Workshops for Primary Schools, Key Stage 3 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Key Stage 4 - Workshops for Secondary Schools, Further Education, NEETS, YOTS, PRUs, Community Groups, Brownies & Girl Guides, Teacher Training

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All activities and workshops are available across the north of England and much of the rest of the country:
Accrington, Altrincham, Ashton in Makerfield, Ashton under Lyne, Atherton, Barrow in Furness, Bebington, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bootle, Bristol, Burnley, Bury, Buxton, Carlisle, Cheadle, Chester, Chorley, Cockermouth, Congleton, Crewe, Crosby, Darwen, Denton & Hyde, Eccles, Ellesmere Port, Fleetwood, Formby, Glossop, Heswall, Hyde, Heywood, Kendal, Keswick, Kirkby, Lancaster, Leigh, Leyland, Liverpool, Lancashire, London, Lytham St Annes, Macclesfield, Merseyside, Manchester, Morecambe, Nantwich, Northwich, Oldham, Ormskirk, Penrith, Prescot, Prestwich, Preston, Rawtenstall, Radcliffe, Rochdale, Reddish Runcorn, Sale, Salford, Skelmersdale, Southport, St Helens, Stockport, Swinton, Skemersdale, Stretford, Tyldesley, Urmston, Wallasey, Warrington, Walkden, Whitehaven, Widnes, wigan, Wilmslow, Winsford, Workington, Yorkshire

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