About Artcycle

Workshops for all

Craft recycling helps to reshape attitudes about consumption through creativity and inspirational learning. It’s a win-win for the future, community and our streets!

Adult workshops

Our friendly sessions introduce the potential of working with single materials, where you can begin your own journey to something amazing. Working across local towns to help those socialise and reconnect through creativity. The perfect prescription tonic.

Groups, clubs and school

Create an orchestra with bottle guitars or build a crisp packet den. The potential is endless. Invite our craft recyclers to your enrichment project and we can demonstrate how to handle waste in a meaningful way and explain the purpose of a circular-economy.

During November term time Artcycle are launching a brand-new learning programme for families, aiming to provide a vibrant and child-led space. Enjoy four sessions focussing on design and crafting with single-stream materials. Book here.

Home education workshops

Special events

Step inside our pop-up star tent of creativity (summer only). Artcycle supply everything for an enchanting and sustainable alternative for a party together. With zero-waste, endless imagination for a hen do, children's party or an excuse to get together.

School holidays

Little Makers, Junior Re:Shapers and Teen Reshapers join together for a riot of creative freedom when schools are out! We allow children space to share ideas, make friends, and grow in confidence through hands-on practical artistry.

We offer support through activities such as: can crushing; plastic shredding; and litter foraging. By bridging destruction and creation children experience stewardship in a calm and nurturing space when time-out from the system is needed.

Emotional support referrals

Single-stream projects

Combining step-by-step guided crafts using rescued paper and card, metal, plastic and, textiles.

Card and paper art

Using card and paper to create works of art. Sessions include ebru marble printing, block printing, bead making and neurographia art as a simple and gentle introduction to 2D and 3D creations.

Mixed metals

Deconstructing soda cans ends in surprise as you emboss and reshape them into beautiful objects. Along the way, participants discover sustainable creativity and build confidence through artistic expression.

Soft plastics

Bacon Fries or Cheese & Onion—soft plastics like crisp packets don’t go to waste. Shredded, moulded, cut, and heated, they’re reimagined as pencil cases, jewellery, and accessories with bold new textures.

Hard plastics

It begins with litter picking—because nothing goes to waste. Take one ordinary plastic bottle: its top, bottom, and everything in between is reshaped into a fun new creation. By separating waste, an abundance of rescued materials is unlocked, ready to be repurposed into something unexpected and full of joy.

Textiles

Easy-to-follow macramé and finger knitting reveal the hidden potential of an old T-shirt, reimagined into accessories or decorations with a surprising twist of delight.

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