Creativity Found: helping adults get creative

  • Find arts and crafts classes, courses, kits and supplies.Ā 

  • Join the Creativity Found Collective toĀ  promoteĀ your own creative-activity business or business-support enterprise, and connect with others who can help you thrive and grow.

  • Listen to an inspirational podcast telling the stories ofĀ people who found their creativity as grown-ups.

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Get creative

BrowseĀ our collection of classes, courses, workshops, kits, supplies ā€“ and more ā€“ in a range of arts and crafts disciplines, and find out when our members are showing or performing next.

Creative fun this way
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Business help

Find the support you need to grow your creative-activity business (or any business for that matter) by outsourcing to our experts, who won't charge the earth and offer flexible working options.

Get the help you need
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Join the Collective

Join our promotional and networking membershipĀ if you shareĀ your creative skills with adults through workshops, online courses, kits and more,Ā or if you canĀ help creativeĀ businesses thrive.

I can't wait to meet you
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Listening inspiration

Be inspired by the award-winning podcast and my guests' stories of finding or re-finding their creativity as adults. From artists, crafters and potters to poets, printmakers and musicians.

Lots of great listening here

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Award-winning community

Claire wins Community Leader of the Year at the Digital Women Awards, celebrating the Creativity Found Collective membership.

Come join us
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Nina Lenton

Guided writing sessions to draw out your creativity and build confidence.

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Camilla Fellas Arnold

Find your authentic voice and tell compelling stories with the help of writing coach, creative mentor and bestselling author Camilla Fellas Arnold.

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The Pink Octopus

Let James Mossop help you with your logo and branding design, with a personal, creative approach.

Find your brand
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Creative Space

Sewing, glass work, basket weaving, printmaking and more with daytime, evening and weekend craft workshops for adults, children and teens in Bristol.

What will you try first?
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Coffee chat

Sign up for an online get-together with me so I can find out more about your fab business, and we can discuss how being a member of the Creativity Found Collective can support both you and your enterprise.

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Get started

Find workshops, classes and courses, online or IRL in everything from printmaking to weaving, painting to embroidery, and lots more in between.

Let's get creative
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Gift ideas

Our gift ideas page is packed full ofĀ inspirational, unique, creative activity ideas for you to treat friends and family with (or perhaps yourself) this festive season.Ā 

Treats this way
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HowĀ to get national press coverage

Find out howĀ perseverance got me and my small business featured in Good Housekeeping magazine, and how you can aim for national press coverage too.

Read more here

Spreading the word

Recent press coverage

Claire has been featured in Good Housekeeping, Women's Own and a number of other monthly and weekly magazines, and most recently has organized for Collective members to be featured in Country and Town House and The Sun.

Click the play buttons to listen to Claire's recent appearances on these great podcasts.Ā 

Join the Creativity FoundĀ Collective

Do youĀ teach creative skills to adults?

IfĀ you share your creative expertise with other adultsĀ through your:

  • In-person workshops
  • Online courses
  • Ready-to-go kits
  • Arts and crafts supplies
  • . . . and more

Creativity Found would love to help your business thrive.

Find out more

Can youĀ help creative businesses thrive?

If you have expertise that can help others grow and manage their creative-activity business, for example in:

  • Social media
  • SEO
  • AccountingĀ 
  • Marketing
  • . . . and more

Creativity Found would love to help you help others.Ā 

Find out more

Sign up here to access your EXCLUSIVE bonus podcast episode

Breaking the barriers to creativity

to help you realize that you are not alone in your fears when it comes to starting a new – in this case creative – endeavour as a grown-up.

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Breaking the barriers to creativity

to help you realize that you are not alone in your fears when it comes to starting a new – in this case creative – endeavour as a grown-up.

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RecentĀ podcast episodes

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Mark Clay

Community, creativity, nature and slowing down with pencil and found materials.

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Mary Adkins

Facing up to negative feedback and processing personal struggles through words.

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Tina Wells

Finding emotional relief and mental wellbeing, and creative outlets that foster joy and reduce stress.

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Douglas Robbins

Dealing with personal loss, embarking on a nomadic lifestyle, and ultimately finding solace and purpose through writing.

Creativity Found blogĀ 

Read the Creativity Found Collective origin story

Jun 22, 2024

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Jun 03, 2024

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Dec 13, 2023

Finding a creative outlet in my forties gave me a new lease of life

Hi, I'm Claire. When I was struggling with anxiety I realized that I needed a creative outlet that was just for me!

Find out what I did, and how that led me here.

How I found my creativity
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