What's on in May 2026

Do join us at one of our community sessions.

🌊Monday 11th May - 9am -10am

Beach Clean and 10am-11am network coffee at the The Lobster Pot. Open to anyone that would like attend.


🌊Monday 18th May - 7pm - 9pm

'Saltwater Coastal Canvas Social' - A special evening event in Bonito Lounge, Bognor Regis.

Come out for the evening and relax with some canvas painting, whilst enjoying a drink with friends or new connections!

This event is a ticketed event, and funds raised will support the community work of Saltwater Creations. All art materials provided, no need to bring anything! Open to all ages and abilities.

Please see details and simply book via Eventbrite- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986447735651... 

Places limited to 16, so do book early.


🌊 Friday 22nd May - 8.30am - 9.45

'Saltwater Steppers'- Walk/ jog/ run out and back 15 mins- Meet outside the Boathouse, Felpham, coffee at the Boathouse after. Please do complete an ICE form before attending-https://forms.gle/yubhHLjzJh5AyKBc9

🌊Friday 22nd May - 10am - 12noon

'Saltwater Sketchers'- Bring your sketch books and meet at The Boathouse, Felpham


🌊Thursday 28th May - 10.30 -12noon

'Coast to the Chapel'- join Saltwater at a morning of free beach crafts in collaboration with Chichester Development Trust and Graylingwell Chapel. See more details on the link. Although the event is free, please do register on the link below to book a place.

https://www.ticketsource.com/.../saltwater.../e-bgadya

The NEXT 'Big Business Beach Clean' in collaboration with AEK Accountant!

Monday 11th May - 9am-11am

-Meet on the prom in front of The Lobster Pot at 9am.

-Beach Clean- 9am-10am and business network coffees at The Lobster Pot 10am-11am.

Please bring gloves and a bag, ( picker sticks will be provided).  All items found will be recycled or upcycled into our Arts sessions. Anyone welcome to join in.


 
 

Join us in collaboration with the Chichester Development Trust.

Saltwater Creations CIC are bringing the coast to the chapel!

Join Saltwater Creations at Graylingwell Chapel for a beach-themed arts & crafts workshop designed to soothe your mind and spark your creativity!

Thursday 9th April 2026- FULLY BOOKED

Thursday 28th May 2026- Some tickets left!

10:30am–12pm

All materials provided, no experience needed and nocost- funded through Chichester Development Trust

No cost, but please book your FREE space through the link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/chichestercdt/e-bgadya

Come create something serene, connect with others, and soak up the power of “blue space” through art!

 

What's on in February, March, April 2026

Join us for 'Saltwater Steppers' on Friday 24th April, at 7.30am outside The Boathouse Cafe, Felpham.  15 mins out and back, walk, jog, run and coffee at The Lobster Pot after. If you would like to attend, please complete the short ICE form before arrival-https://forms.gle/dLCSXc3M3jYZWkiYA 

Also on Friday 24th April is 'Saltwater Sketchers', 10am-12noon outside The Boathouse, Felpham. Bring a sketch book and draw and chat all things about the sea! Free and open to anyone of any ability.

Join us at Home Ed Shed - Bognor in April!

See poster for details.



Join us at 39 Youth Club in April!

See poster for details.



Join us for Saltwater Sketchers and Saltwater Steppers in March!

See poster for details.

 
 

New funding- Bognor Regis Town Council- Thank you!

A huge 'Thank you' to Bognor Regis Town Council for a donation from the Local Youth Provision Funding 2025-26. This will fund Saltwater Creations workshops to Young People in Bognor Regis.

11 community organisations and clubs received support, all of which provide direct activities or outreach for young people in and around Bognor Regis.

Check out some of the orgs and the work they do for young people in our town:

39 Youth Club

Bognorphenia

Bognor Regis Town FC

Bognor Regis Youth & Community Centre

Making Theatre Gaining Skills

Young People's Shop

Resourceful Community Scrapstore CIC

Please do get in touch if you would like to be part of this young persons project: jules@saltwatercreations.co.uk



Big Business Beach Clean No 3!

An amazing Business Beach Clean took place in January, with 11 hardy souls and a dog, braving the weather! We collected over 7Kg of rubbish in an hour.

We grabbed the best of the weather and even some sun and great drinks at The Lobster Pot!

Other good news- only 1 bit of container insulation and 1 avacodo found naked to the eye. ( There will still be shreds of it🥹 in the stones, but picking up any bits still helps).

Thanks to https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-knight-27ab41b2/ or https://www.aekaccountancy.com/ for the collaboration.

This Felpham based Business Network Beach Clean gives local businesses an opportunity to connect at the coast, and support local community wellbeing and environmental initiatives too.

Plastics from the beach clean will be washed and up cycled into Saltwater Creations CIC community arts wellbeing workshops.... perhaps not the fidget poo💩🤣.

Prize find- Flintstone Potato Chips from Sainsbury's from the 1980's! Use by date 19th August 1989😱

Do join us at another one. We will post dates on here.

Also other local beach cleans can be found through Felpham Village Conservation Public Group, Really Wild Bognor and Felpham The Waverley - Bognor Regis Selsey Beach Litter Ninjas

November 2025

Aviva Community Fund

Saltwater Creations is running a short crowdfunding project for to raise £1,200 to support our beach cleans and Beach Junk Community Art workshops. Please see the link to support or for more details. Donations will be matched and every little helps!

 https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/one-mans-rubbish-another-mans-treasure 



Governance update - New horizons

Saltwater Creations CIC has realigned its governance model and therefore has a new Company Number 16840727. 

The former company remains on Companies House, with all history of Saltwater Creations CIC over the last 10 years, under Saltwater Sessions CIC 09691801. 


September 2025

Annual Report- Year End March 2025

Saltwater Creations reports on its community work throughout the year. Click here to read.

A massive THANK YOU, to all the funders and donors who enabled us make such an impact in the community.




August 2025

Next Saltwater Sketchers sessions..

Saltwater Sketchers, free community art session will be on:

Friday 26th September, 10am–12noon

📍 Outside The Boathouse Café, Felpham The Boathouse
Free, friendly, and open to all! Bring a sketchbook and pencil, enjoy the sea air, try some art, and make new community connections.

July 2025

Chalk Cliff Trust, Match My Project- Hyde Housing, Southern Co-op- Green Fund

Saltwater Creations is absolutely delighted to have been awarded funding to deliver community arts workshops that inspire action and raise awareness around the protection of our beautiful blue spaces.

This funding is supporting the delivery and development of our Beach Junk workshops, which not only help keep our beaches free from plastic pollution, but also provide sustainable materials for our wellbeing-focused arts sessions.

February 2025
Groundworks Funding

Saltwater Creations is absolutely delighted to have been awarded a Grassroots Grant for £2,000 thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery. 

This will help to deliver and develop projects including the community arts sessions- Saltwater Sketchers.

Next Saltwater Sketchers Sessions will from 10am-12noon:

Friday 28th February-Meet on prom in front of The Boathouse

Friday 28th March- Meet on prom in front of The Waverley - Bognor Regis

The sessions are free, and anyone is welcome to turn up and sketch the sea/beachy things with us. I have arts equipment if you don't have any or if you are new to art. Wrap up warm, and we will also pop for a warm drink too, so bring some change for a drink.

Feel free to message for more information and all futuredates will be posted on Facebook.

 

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:

-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.