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Our Team Members

Becky Bone – Administrator and Workshop Leader

Zoe Moore – Workshop Leader and Administrator

Lee Cadogan – Arts Practitioner and Project Manager

Penny Embden & Amy Bicât – Directors

Rosie Thompson-Agnew – Arts Practitioner and Project Manager

Workshop Leaders

Interns & Volunteers

Bonfire Night is round the corner! 🎆 Let’s get o Bonfire Night is round the corner! 🎆 

Let’s get our signing hands ready to learn some Bonfire Night Signs with Daisy!! 🎇
Happy Halloween!! Join in with Lily to learn some Happy Halloween!! Join in with Lily to learn some Spooktacular Makaton Signs! 🎃

Which sign is your favourite? 👻 

#halloween #makaton #spookyseason #makatonfriendly
20 years of Artburst, and our workshop tech is sti 20 years of Artburst, and our workshop tech is still stuck in the 1970s! 🖨️🙈 
Between a printer that has officially called it quits and a laptop that takes 20 minutes just to wake up, our team is spending more time fighting slow screens than prepping workshop materials.  We need 2 new iMacs and a reliable wireless printer to keep our inclusive creative sessions running smoothly. 
 ✨ Help us keep the creativity flowing - tap the link in our bio to support our crowdfunder! Every pledge, share, and cheer means the world to our small team. 💛  #Artburst #CommunityArts #InclusiveArts #ArtsCharity #crowdfunderuk
“I’m proud of the whole play because it boosted my “I’m proud of the whole play because it boosted my confidence.” ✨
Our April 2025 - March 2026 Annual Impact Report is officially here! 🎉
🔊 Turn the sound up to hear the voices of year 4 Virginia Primary School Make a Play students from March 2026 reflecting on what they achieved 🔈
Over the past year, we:
- Delivered 589 creative workshops 
- Reached 3,906 children
- Connected with 2,560 parents and carers
A huge thank you to our team, teachers, partner schools, and funders - including @bbccin @tnlcommunityfund for making these creative journeys possible.

👉 Tap the link in our bio to read the full Impact Report and explore our year in review.

#Artburst #MakeAPlay #ImpactReport #CreativeEducation #ConfidenceThroughCreativity
In honour of Black History Month, we’re revisiting In honour of Black History Month, we’re revisiting Benjamin Zephania’s wonderful poem, ‘This Orange Tree.’

This is an edited version we created two years ago read by Jacque Mclaughlin. Benjamin was kind enough to let us use this for one of our funded projects.
Today is #DLDAwarenessDay Did you know that Devel Today is #DLDAwarenessDay 
Did you know that Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects roughly 2 children in every classroom yet remains largely hidden?
As proud members of the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance (SLCA), we’re hoping to raise awareness today and suggest ways you can help and spot a child who is struggling 👀 
Head over to Artburst.co.uk/resources (or tap link in our bio) to download free resource packs and explore our Action Songs video library that use @makaton 🎶
How do you support expressive communication in your setting, we’d love you to share ⬇️
Check out our friends @speechandlanguk for more information 🙌

#DLDAwarenessDay #DLDday #SpeechAndLanguage #CreativeLearning
Wow! We celebrated Artburst’s 20th anniversary las Wow!
We celebrated Artburst’s 20th anniversary last Saturday and it was so lovely to see so many faces from the past 20 years 💕
Swipe to listen to the speeches by co founders Penny and Amy 🥂 
Thank you to all of you who have been party of our journey.
We’d love you to share your Artburst memories in the comments below 👇 

#Artburst20 #CommunityArts #CreativeLearning
🍂Autumn is here so gather up some leaves and let’s 🍂Autumn is here so gather up some leaves and let’s make wreaths together! 🍁

You will need…

🍁A paper plate
🍁Glue
🍁Scissors
🍁A hole phnch
🍁Wool/String
🍁Feathers, twigs and other autumnal bits and bobs
🍁LEAVES!

Please feel free to share your wreaths and tag us. We’d love to see what you make!
🎉 To continue our 20th year celebrations, we are l 🎉 To continue our 20th year celebrations, we are looking way back to 2009 with Nataliya’s memories from her work placement with Artburst! 
 
“Artburst was my placement host from Central School of Speech and Drama in 2009. I got very lucky because I got exactly what I asked for - a place that combines drama and art. I didn’t even know such a thing could exist, and there I was in this amazing startup organisation’s office in Hackney, making hundreds of ladybirds out of paper plates - I was in heaven. 

Amy and Penny were, and still are, my inspiration for the career I have been able to have. So many of the things I have created since have been as a result of the groundbreaking way in which they navigated this work. I learnt how to make shows in minutes (Amy is a genius!), I learnt how to thread art through every part of delivery, I learnt to be an efficient storyteller, and I learnt to always lead with the ideas of children and young people.

I now run Unique Community, and while it was many years ago that I was at Artburst, the experience I had on this placement is a definitive part of the way I run my own organisation. I talk about the way you work all the time to anyone that will listen - your legacy is vast and far reaching. 

Thank you so much for being the best placement a girl could ask for!”

Nataliya was one of the first students we hosted through our partnership with @cssdlondon. 

17 years on and we are about to host a new student starting next week, so it’s amazing to hear how Nataliya’s early work experience with Artburst still informs the work she does running @uniquecommunitycharity 

Thank you Nataliya for your hard work, creativity, and passion that you shared with Artburst! 💫❤️

#artburst20 #20years #artburstmemories
It’s been a busy summer for Artburst! ☀️ Here is It’s been a busy summer for Artburst! ☀️

Here is Lee giving a run down of what we got up to in our sessions all over London. Thank you to everyone who joined us at our activities, we hope you had just as much fun as we did! 

We hope you have all had a wonderful summer and wish everyone a fabulous start to the Autumn Term! 🍂🍁
Now we are all back into our weekly routines, here Now we are all back into our weekly routines, here are some Makaton Signs all about School. Why not try using some of these signs when talking to your children about school?

#backtoschool #makatonsigns #inclusiveeducation #accessibility #learning
What’s on at Artburst! Come and join us at one of What’s on at Artburst! Come and join us at one of our upcoming sessions for Under 5s!

☀️Artburst Babies, Tuesdays at 1-1.45pm
📍Sebright Children’s Centre, E2 8NP

🎶Artburst Boogie, Fridays at 10-10.30am
📍Holdspace, N1 9SY

🫟Make & Paint, Fridays at 11-11.45am
📍Holdspace, N1 9SY

🚂 Singing, Stories & Crafts, Fridays at 10.30am, 11.30am, 1.20pm an 2.20pm
📍London Transport Museum

We can’t wait to see you there!
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