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Gill answered our plea for help as to how to maintain my daughter’s creativity when her school work seemed so goal and exam driven.
Gill rose to the challenge with humour, zeal and enthusiasm. She organised a series of meetings with my daughter,involving fun activities to identify the core of the problem and suggested ideas and strategies to ensure that my daughter’s creative nature is not stifled or lost but channelled.
My daughter is now a happier, more settled teenager with a creative toolkit to use on a daily basis to re-centre herself after a busy day at school. She says the course actively reminded her to do more of the things that make her happy and fulfilled. We call it her toolkit for self-regulation and happiness. Thank you Gill
Mum of 12-year-old who took part in Flourish sessions

My daughter had a 1-1 session with Gill in preparation for secondary school. Gill has an incredible knack of unlocking children’s worries and thoughts allowing them to think things through and together come up with workable solutions. She models these incredibly important future life skills. My daughter now has a clear to do list for the next few weeks and already has a list of strategies for relaxing and exercising her creative brain after a day at school. It’s made me think of needing one for me after my working day!

My daughter said everything felt so tangled and jumbled up before her session and now it is clear, organised and she feels so much calmer and ready for the challenge. I would recommend it for all children before the jump to secondary school.
Mum of 11-year-old who took part in an Accelerate session

Thank you for inspiring me to be an illustrator
Inkpot, age 9

Thank you for Inkpots. Thank you for the endless hours of fun too
Inkpot, age 11

We appreciate the lovely creative atmosphere you have created so much.
Mum of 10-year-old

Inkpots’ blog

Inkpots creative activities
22 Mar 2020

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 […]
Creative space for all
27 Feb 2020

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 […]
Creative mentoring
14 Feb 2020

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 […]
An update on our creative space
3 Dec 2019

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 […]
Creativity and our wellbeing
20 Nov 2019

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 […]