![36972303_1877020545691850_6074585667952705536_n[1]](https://inkpots.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/36972303_1877020545691850_6074585667952705536_n1-200x250.jpg "Six summer reads for… older readers!")
Our final six summer read recommendations are here! This one’s for any Inkpots looking to dip their toe into the diverse world of young adult books, from mystery stories to graphic novels to contemporary. Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard: Barnard’s refreshing take on female friendship and mental health will leave you gasping for breath. […]
We’re looking for a Creative Co-ordinator to join us in 2018 to run two after school clubs. If you love working with children and young people, and books are your bag, then take a look at some more details. Click HERE to get more information.
On Monday 21 August, Gill (the founder of Inkpots) took part in a phone-in on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on gender neutrality for children. You can listen here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091s7t3
Everyone is on holiday – or so it seems! We won’t be meeting in August because lots of families are on holiday. Then our September meet up will be on 9 September – a week later than usual as Gill is on holiday. Wishing all our writers a happy, creative summer!
Welcome to our second Friday of Gangsta Granny-inspired activities. Are you having a good holiday time so far – you can always write and tell us all about your adventures here. Some children have already sent postcards and photographs – and you can join in too! But, here are also some things you might like […]
Welcome to week one of our activities based on Gangsta Granny by David Walliams. Each Friday until the schools return in September, we will be posting some activities to do which are connected with Gangsta Granny, or things that the book has inspired for us. Have you read (or re-read) the book? This is a […]
We are thrilled to announce that we’re having an Inkpots summer party! It’s also going to be a teddy bear’s picnic as we now have our very own bears too! Please come and join us at 1st Burgess Hill Scout Group on Saturday 6 August from 2 – 3.45pm. Tickets are available HERE
Inkpots will be closed from Thursday 24 March until Tuesday 29 March for the Easter break. We will be back with a trip to a printers and lots of workshops during the school holidays. Happy Easter and thank you to all our supporters!
At Inkpots, we are lucky enough to have great links with our local secondary school, the Burgess Hill Academy. We have our own creative space there and in September, started a new group for the Year 7 students who had recently started. This week, I was asked by a couple of young people if we […]
We are delighted to be taking part in the blog tour of The International Yeti Collective by Paul Mason which is published on 17 October 2019. We’re particularly pleased to be able to exclusively reveal one of the gorgeous illustrations by Katy Riddell. Katy’s illustrations add a charmming dimension to the book, and help guide […]
After running 3,500 after school clubs, holidays workshops and events over almost seven years, I closed the doors on a chapter of my business and my life in July this year. It’s been a wonderful roller coaster of a ride with many, many ups and downs. There are tons of treasured memories – from a […]
At 4.15pm on Wednesday 10 July the curtain will fall on Inkpots After School Clubs. It’s almost seven years since a seed of an idea grew into a business plan and the very first club opened its doors. Since then over 1,000 children have been through Inkpots and there have been 3,500 club sessions, workshops […]
In the six and a half years since Inkpots started, we have been involved in many exciting projects. But the latest one at The Burgess Hill Academy has to be right at the top of the list. We are currently working alongside the Academy to develop a room just off the Library into a creative […]
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