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Welcome to Inkpots! Every Monday morning, we will post a new set of activities which we hope will provide some creative inspiration throughout the coming days. The activities have been planned as we would if running an after school club, so there will be themes running through the ideas. We hope these ideas are suitable […]

Eighteen months ago, a chance conversation started a chain of events which lead to Inkpots developing its own creative space at our local secondary school, the Burgess Hill Academy. Six months ago, enough work had happened on the room to provide us with a blank canvas and the really magical work could begin. We were […]

An effective mentoring relationship is characterised by mutual respect, trust, understanding, and empathy. University of Leeds There is something very special about the mentoring process, and it’s one which works particularly well with creative activities. I have been a mentor for many years, having been trained by West Sussex County Council in 2012. I have […]

Over the past term, we have been working hard to transform a room at the Burgess Hill Academy into a vibrant creative space for the students who come to Inkpots. As we approach Christmas, a natural pause in proceedings has given us the chance to review how far we’ve come. We are sharing the various […]

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 […]