Saltwater Creations is celebrating its 10th Birthday in 2025!
Next year we celebrate 10 years of Saltwater Creations and in that time we have delivered activities to 9,785 people. I'm sure we will reach 10,000 by January 2025!
As a non- profit Community Interest Company (CIC), Saltwater Creations welcomes donations of any size, to support our activities in the community.
We try and deliver these for free to as many people as we can, reducing financial barriers to access the arts and wellbeing activities.
If you would like to support Saltwater Creations to continue to take beach arts for wellbeing into the community, you can make a donation via:
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-Paypal link- https://www.paypal.com/donate
-Or visit our ' Support Us' page https://www.saltwatercreations.co.uk/Support-us.php
August 2024
Littlehampton 'Under the Sea' day!
A fantastic day of making art on the street at the Littlehampton Town Council 'Under the Sea' Family Day- in conjunction with Artswork Charity.
Over 63, truly beautiful and unique canvases created by young people between the ages of 4 and 14. Everyone was so excited and enthusiastic with the art they created. It was a joy to witness and a be part of.
May 2024
Thank you Fonthill Foundation
Saltwater Creations CIC has been awarded a grant to help foster curiosity and inspire young minds of young people under 25, through its wellbeing beach themed activities!
This will be launched in May and run for a year.
If you are an organisation that supports young people under 25, and are interested in receiving a workshop, please to email Jules@saltwatercreations.co.uk for more information.
January 2024
Thank you Co-Op Community Grants!
Saltwater Creations CIC has been awarded £1,584 to help the community of Bognor Regis with wellbeing beach themed activities! This grant has helped to set up the 'Saltwater Sketchers' Series.
- Anyone is from the community is welcome (any age and ability)
- We meet at 10am
- We try and take some time outside on/ near the beach to draw/ paint/ sketch, which is always ruled by the crazy weather extremes of the beach environment!
- If the elements are against us, we hit the cafe and grab a warm drink and sketch inside.
- It is for all abilities, you do not have to be an artist, nor do you have to have any art materials. I will always have something with me you can use (sketch books, paper, pens, pencils, acrylic pens). You don't even have to do art if you don't want to, just come and be surrounded by it!
- You can stay as long as you want
- We collect digital images of each piece of art to make a collection of the art
- It is fun, light-hearted and we always leave feeling warm and fulfilled.
Do join us!
Sea you there.
Thanks to all of you that voted!
Thank you Tesco Community Grants!
Saltwater Creations CIC has been awarded £500 to help young people in Bognor Regis area with it's wellbeing beach themed activities!
Thanks to all of you that voted!
Eggstravaganza Art Trail Littlehampton
Saltwater Creations CIC are excited to announce that they were a commissioned artist for the Egg Trail. Working with White Meadows School, an 'Egg-Shell-ent Egg' has been created for the trail.
Read more here: As part of the LOVE Local programme of cultural regeneration for Littlehampton, 12 giant eggs have been created by artists and schools and hidden in businesses across the town Every egg is different – surprising and magical pieces of art – all designed by local artists and children to bring Littlehampton to creative life this Easter. Hidden alongside each egg is a collectable letter that will give you a secret code to ‘crack’.
Find the 12 giant magical eggs hidden around the Town. Crack the secret code to be in with a chance to win egg-citing prizes!
Pick up a free map from Littlehampton Museum and local shops. Or download one here https://bit.ly/36mecjf
You can submit your answers by filling in the form on the flyer and returning it to Littlehampton Museum or by emailing us. Closing date: Monday 25 April. A winner will be announced by 29 April on social media.
On Saturday 9 April, join us for a FREE launch event on the High Street, 11 – 3 pm.
Dance to live music with Sussex Steel, colour the town centre with chalk art with local favourites LOCA and try your hand at fantastic spray art for all ages with award-winning artists from Sussex charity UCanSpray.
Vitamin Sea- Arts and Wellbeing Project
It's been an absolute privilege to work on the Vitamin Sea wellbeing arts project at Nyewood CE Infant School with @_artswork_ , through the Arun Inspires Programme in partnership with Arun District Council.
Art is never complete until it is shared. Among many things, it can help us feel and express emotions, or simply be ......... beautiful to the eye.
See the amazing art the children have been creating here: https://sites.google.com/view/vitamin-sea/home
Please let as many people enjoy this wonderful work as you can by sharing with people that you know that will enjoy and be inspired by it.
Creative Careers EXPO workshops
Saltwater Creations was excited to be invited to deliver 4 workshops to 120 Year students at Felpham Community College Creative Careers EXPO. This is part of Arun inspires, a local programme led by youth arts charity Artswork, alongside Arun District Council and supported by Arts Council England. Over 3 years, Arun Inspires aims to increase access to culture and engagement with the arts and creativity for young people across the District.
See more here:https://www.felpham.com/2021/11/04/creative-careers-expo/
Lockdown Surfboard Art
Edward Bryant School, Bognor Regis received 180 'Beach Activity Bags' to support children's wellbeing activities in Lockdown.
This was supported by Co-op Community Foundation. Here are some of their amazing and creative surfboard designs! Click on them to see them in finer detail!
2020- Co-op Community Fund
We are really grateful to everyone who supported Saltwater Creations by shopping at Co-op this year. You raised an amazing- £2,249.73 to help young people in the local area with fun, beach themed activities to help them in the face of adversity.
We have lot's planned and constantly reshaping our activities around COVID lockdown's and social distancing guidelines!
We will be offering free beach themed arts sessions, and delivering 'beach bags' of activities to those we can't reach face to face. If you are a school or organisation that would like to receive these, please do get in touch. jules@saltwatercreations.co.uk
2020- Tesco Bags of Help Havant
We are pleased to announce that we are in the Tesco Bags of Help votes in store in the Havant area, including Emsworth, Southbourne and Hayling Island! This will be in January, February and March. Please do pop a blue token in the box for us. If you are interested in receiving a free workshop at your school in this area, please do drop us a line.
Autumn 2019
We are pleased to announce that won the Tesco Bags of Help votes in Southampton! Thank you to all that voted for us. We will now be delivering free workshops to schools in Southampton. If you are interested in receiving a workshop please do drop us a line.
Spring 2019
We are pleased to announce that we were third in the Tesco Bags of Help votes in Pulborough, Gosport and Bognor Regis stores. Thank you all for voting for us. You will help us to reach over 1000 children with our workshops.
Summer 2018
As the heat wave continues, what better to launch a new workshop- 'Vitamin Sea'- the curative powers of the sea. This was a great success with 90 Year 3 students, who were studying the 'seaside- then and now' and how like Victorians, we still use it today to day to help our mental and physical well-being, but in many different ways. We all even had time to learn to surf and paint pebbles. Year 3 are now ... all the the beach! To see more details about the workshop click here. We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in securing a donation from the Midhurst Lions Club for a grant of £500. This will support visits to young people in and around Midhurst with our workshops. Thank you to Midhurst Lions for their support.
What is a CIC?
We often get asked 'What is CIC?' So we thought we'd explain ... A CIC is a type of company for people who want to be involved in a business that benefits the community. This means a CIC is not for personal gain, so directors and employers will not make millions of pounds from the CIC. Instead the money goes to the community. But most importantly a CIC has as an asset lock which means that it cannot be asset stripped for private gain. A CIC also needs to show the Regulator that it benefits the community and does not exist for political aims. CICs work in every sector, including: business, services, childcare, education, energy, environment, health and social care, housing, media, media, sports and the arts. As a CIC are able to seek grants and funding to support their community activities and welcome donations and support from Individuals, Corporates and Legacies.GDPR
The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force from 25th May 2018! So if you would like to join our email mailing list with a personal email address/contact details, we need to seek for your ACTIVE consent to send you news and details about our workshops. Please sign up here through the form: http://eepurl.com/cpOtnv. If you choose not to, you will always find our news on here: https://www.facebook.com/Saltwcltd Spring 2018 We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in applying for a grant of £500 from WSCC Small Grants Fund. This will support visits to young people in West Sussex with our workshops. Thank you to WSCC for their support.February 2018
We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in applying for a grant of £5,000 from the Santander Foundation. This will support visits to young people in West Sussex and Hampshire with our workshops. Thank you to the Santander Foundation for their support.
2017-2018
We are pleased to announce that we were successful in securing £5,000 from the Tesco Bags of Help scheme and are currently delivering workshops to schools in and around Bognor Regis, Littlehampton, Chichester and Haslemere. Thanks to all that supported us in your local stores.