COURSES
Making does make a difference. Working together around a table enables connection, conversation and respite. We focus on wellbeing and community as outcomes for our creative courses.
We run a variety of different courses, drop-in and events depending on the season, needs and funding available. Check out our weekly courses and follow us on Instagram or Facebook for pop up workshops.
Our regular drop-ins
Find your Words is our weekly poetry and spoken word drop-in for those wanting to explore creative writing.
Chop & Chat is weekly drop-in session at our workshop on the Quay, where men are invited to come and make things out of wood and use the workshop.
Boatyard Bikes our weekly drop-in where we strip down an old motorbike and turn it into a cafe racer. Building bikes and community!
Our regular courses
Women in the Workshop gives participants the tools, the knowledge and the support to achieve simple DIY tasks around the home.
Holy Fool Barista Training - more details to come.
See all our drop-ins, courses and events in one place
FAQs
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We work with organisations who represent individuals currently recovering or overcoming the following:
• Mental health • Addiction • Homelessness • Criminality. • Adverse Childhood Experiences • Refugees • Low Self-Esteem • Abuse
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We source our own funding for some of our courses and we also work closely with other to deliver funding-specific courses on their behalf. These funded courses allow our attendees to freely appreciate the wide range of activities we offer. Some of our connected charities are:
InExeter • Co Lab • YMCA • Plus People • Positive lights • ECI •ESF • St. Petrocs
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Co Create is all about supporting recovery through making and creativity.
• Our wellbeing courses are focussed on creating a safe & wholesome environment for our attendees to build relationships and grow in confidence. As well as learning a skill there is an emphasis on respite and recovery.
• The employability courses include a wellbeing focus but the goal is more specific. The skills learnt in these courses could lead to our participants earning money for themselves in their free time. We often have speakers & guests for these courses who give free advise on finances, freelance business and social media etc…
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We tend to have at least two courses running every week and often more than that. Courses mostly run one day-a week for a month
Using our hands.
Building community.
Growing in confidence.
Donation Options
£15Donate a tool
£50Give a toolbox
£250Support a participant’s place
£2,500Support a whole course