WHERE BETTER?
Than the birthplace of the first industrial Revolution to lgnite a Creativity Revolution by ‘Raising a Million Quids to Inspire a Million Kids to Aim Higher than High, powered by their Creativity and our Communities’.
By putting a team of fully funded STEAMsters and our Pop-Up Creativity Day Art Trucks on the road, running free sessions in schools and at Fetes and Festivals initially in:
Shropshire/North West - birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
Cornwall/South West - whose son Richard Trevithick invented ‘Locomotion’
Yorkshire/North East - whose coal fuelled that revolution
TURBO CHARGED BY MCLAREN
Check out the film above that Smartsheet and McLaren made about our work at STEAM Co. to help us ignite a #CreativityRevolution23
Just part of a few weeks of activities that saw us work with communities across the UK, particularly in Shropshire, Cornwall and Yorkshire.
NOT TALKIN’ BOUT A REVOLUTION - WE’RE WALKIN’
Our children, our communities and our country have never needed creativity more.
In the face of AI and the rise of the robots, it’s what makes us human and key to our survival.
“Without Art and Creativity we are nothing” - Professor Brian Cox
Creativity can inspire our children in their learning, connect communities and power the economy,
That’s why we’re doing what we can to launch a Creativity Revolution by getting the first three of our pop-up creativity day art trucks on the road with fully funded STEAMsters to run inspiring and engaging creativity sessions for free in schools and communities at fetes and festivals.
In the lead up to the British Grand Prix we worked with communities in three counties synonymous with the first industrial revolution and were dleighted to be able to take them to McLaren’s technical centre in Woking, to meet the drivers and see the engineering teams preparing the cars for the British Grand Prix in the pits at Silverstone.
See video above with a chat with Yorkshire farmer Richard Hampshire and Ava at Silverstone.
Yes, a trip of a life time for some lucky people, the challenge now is to amplify this and inspire others through their experience.
SHROPSHIRE
Where better to launch a creativity revolution than at the birthplace of the first industrial revolution.
After launching our Creativity Revolution on World Creativity Day at Randlay Primary in Telford and a rocket at the Shropshire County Show, we had a fantastic time shooting for the above #SponsorX film at Broseley C of E School in the Ironbridge Gorge.
Dan Perks, a dad who sat in our our assembly and made paper rockets with his twin sons Ollie and Charlie came down to Woking with mum Sian.
CORNWALL
Over the years we’ve done a lot of work with schools and communities across Cornwall, the county whose son Richard Trevithick invented the steam loco, and who built Locomotion in Ironbridge.
We had a great time at the Great Estate festival and with a cardboard steam traction engine we made with a family at the Royal Cornwall Show.
We were delighted that an environmental consultant Dion Mellows and son Oscar and Stanley were able to represent Kernow by travelling ‘up country’ to join us in Silverstone.
YORKSHIRE
Yorkshire provided much of the coal for the industrial revolution and is leading the way demonstrating the pwoer of grassroots community creativity with Leeds 2023 and Bradford 2025 and we’ve worked across the county.
In the lead up to the Grand Prix we popped up at the Duncombe Park Steam Rally and a Duck Race in Holmfirth.
A local business woman Claire Young and her daughter Ava and local farmer Richard Hampshire and son Charlie joined us at Silverstone.
OUR BIG BOOK BET
Books change lives. We know one that certainly has and another that just might turbo charge that!
This is the story of two books found in Oxfam charity bookshops.
Check out the chat Nick had here on the BBC Radio and TV news about the campaign we launched to find a generous donor who will match fund the first work we need to do.
Click here to bet for it on GumTree or you can donate to our GoFundMe appeal here
DISASTER STRIKES #STARSHIP22
Just before our twelvth festival pop-up in as many weeks since Glasto, we were all set to fly to Truro in #StarShip22 to tell BBC Cornwall all about the #CreativityRevolution23 and we had a major issue.
The clutch went on #StarShip22 and we were stranded.
So we called them and made this film of our summer antics with #OurSeeMonster and McLaren.