creativeRoots
11 – 15 year olds
Next term beginning Wednesday 16th September 2026
The first session of the new round of programming takes place on Wednesday 16th September, between 10am-12pm at the Homeland Project in Backwell, North Somerset.
Young people will be offered 18 group sessions and 3 one-to-one mentoring sessions running over the course of three 6-week terms from September 2026 to March 2027.
If you'd like to make a referral, please do so
here
Taking place at the beautiful outdoor setting of Homeland in Backwell, creative Roots is a FREE targeted, NHS-funded intervention and Wellbeing Arts programme for 11-15 year olds who find themselves facing barriers to education. Facilitated by Creative Health practitioners, it focuses on raising young people’s aspirations, hopes and confidence, so that they may be inspired to learn, feel safe in groups, return to education, create community, nurture themselves.
creativeRoots has been designed to be a ‘closed’ group running in line with academic terms (and holidays), so that young participants have a consistent and boundaried opportunity to stabilise and feel safe, move through a structured and creative programme of activities, and work towards a celebration that they co-produce at the end. They will have the opportunity to develop hard and soft skills, working side-by-side with artists and other professionals.
What you need to know:
• This is a FREE programme
• We have 10 places available
• It’ll be a very creative, gentle, unpressurised, and nourishing environment
• We’ll provide all art materials
• Refreshments will be provided
• Reasonable travel costs may be reimbursed
• There will be 3 terms of 6 sessions, followed by a celebration event
If you would like to have a chat about the programme, you think this might be of interest to young people you work with, or you know another professional or organisation who does, please get in touch.
You can email project manager Jess Baum on jess.creativeshift@gmail.com or telephone 07743 929 042
Please find our referral form
here
Homeland, Backwell Common, Backwell, BS48 3NA (ish)
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