creativeRoots
11 – 15 year olds
Wednesdays 10am-12pm from 17th September 2025
Starting in September and taking place at the beautiful outdoor setting of Homeland in Backwell, creativeRoots
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.
The first session takes place on Wednesday 17 September, and the programme will run every Wednesday from 9.30am-12.30pm for over 18-weeks, culminating in a wonderful celebration event!
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
• We will meet each week at Tower House Medical Centre in Nailsea, where the young people will be collected and dropped off by electric minibus (driven by a DBS-checked driver) and escorted by one of the practitioners to Homeland in Backwell (around a 10 minute journey)
• There will be 3 terms of 6 sessions, followed by a celebration event
If you think this might be of interest to young people you work with or you know another professional or organisation who does, please see / share the flyers below – there’s one for young people and one for professionals.
Or if you would like to have a chat about the programme please do get in touch (telephone 07743 929 042).
Finally, if you’d like to refer someone, please complete this online form.
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Homeland, Backwell Common, Backwell, BS48 3NA (ish)
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creativeRoots is funded by:
