More: We just keep growing! Once again we are looking to grow our team! Our progression officer …
Our College is Growing! As Craftworks College grows, we recognise the need to cultivate our comm…
May has bought with it, some exciting changes! May Café Celebrations! We are thrille…
Blossoming Curriculum Over the last couple of weeks, something special has been occurring at our…
Over the Easter holidays, our Vibe Youth Team spent some of their time hanging out down at Sittingb…
Student Confidence This week we asked one of our long standing students to write their review o…
New Ingredients It has been a while since we updated you on all that has been going on with our …
William Tells Hello, my name is William (this is a pseudonym) and I work at one of the many site…
Craftworks Sowing Seeds We thought we would let two of our horticulture students, takeover this …
This week on our Facebook page, we are having a bit of a student takeover! Muddy Reviews …
Endings: A Vision to End Loneliness Have you heard about our Dine WIth Friends project that…
Bonanza! This time last year, we were all sat in a meeting trying to work out what the …
Treat Street Our youth team has been out and about on the streets of Minster, Sheerness,…
As part of celebrating World Book Day & National Careers Week we tasked some of our students to…
Career Aspirations This week at Craftworks College, we have been celebrating National Careers We…
Come Join Us at Willowway We have a TA position opening at our Craftworks, Willowway site in Iwa…
Happy World Book Day! All-day we have been posting on our Social Media channels, the books that …
Jason - A Hardy Annual! We wanted to highlight Pruning Time gardener, Jason this week. During th…
Wish maths was as easy as pie? 🥧 If maths feels like a problem, Craftworks has the formula to …
If you follow us on Twitter, you may notice that on a Friday we often have a round-up of Tutor Debb…
Does anyone else remember sitting next to the radio, cross fingered, desperately waiting to hea…
https://youtu.be/JRkwMduj8t8 Does anyone remember this theme music! Well here's our Newsround …
This week is Children's Mental Health Week. We believe supporting children and young people (an…
What is Autism? According to the Ambitious About Autism website, one in a hundred people are o…
Supporting You This week we have received a whole heap of wellbeing & support service inform…
If 2020 taught us anything, one major lesson was around the use of technology and online platforms …
Functional Skills tutor came up with a great little Christmas Quiz for our Craftworks students this…
Bonfires were lit up in the last few weeks of term as our Brogdale Farm Horticultural Students gave…
What began to grow in lockdown What's on your plate, grew from an idea that was birthed thro…
Time for a Chat with Learnabout Learnabout is Brogdale CIC's social experience day service. It i…
Youthwork is often about flexibility and ingenuity, thinking on the spot, and responding to change.…
Craftworks, our post-16 specialist provider college has been full of celebration in the last week a…
If nothing else this has been the year where we have realised how important our gardens are! Wh…
Our latest project, connecting the people of Ashford is going on TV! During the first Lockd…
Legends of Lockdown Did you know that KCC has set up a new award called Lockdown Legends! It is …
Pumpkins are back on sale (by donation) at Muddy Wellies this half term! Last year we had some very…
Hope Communicates October hailed the annually celebrated World Mental Health Day. This is a day …
Our sauces tell us: Yesterday was Teachers' Day National Teachers’ Day is an annual celebratio…
Build our world We love Lego Club and have really missed being able to meet under the current go…
GTBM is back! We are delighted to announce that our Good to be ME! project is back up and runnin…
Finding Rest What do you do on the days you feel unmotivated, where getting up is a struggle, an…
Last year we ran a Wild Outdoors Day as part of our summer club provision! It was great and so popu…
I don't know about you, but I feel a bit overwhelmed by information at the moment. However, I do wa…
Today is World Emoji Day so we thought we would give you a round up of the week using our favourite…
We have great news to share with you! We have a wonderful opportunity for Post-16 Students in S…
We are back this week with our Friday Five but it seems our inbox has been flooded with new content…
As the Duchess says, Wimbledon, will return and it will be worth the wait, but for now, here are 5 …
June, for many young people, however they identify, is often full of making plans for PRIDE. Ma…
Our Zoom Clubs have increased we now have 8 clubs meeting across Swale and Ashford. On Mond…
It's time for our round up of the week. Here are some of the resources we have been loving this wee…
Yes, it is true - Pruning Time is back in business. Pruning Time is our gardening enterprise…
This week we have Five Ways to spark your motivation again and feel more alive! Five Alive: Con…
| Friendship | I wonder how many of us are craving time with our friends, I know I am. Seeing them …
On the 'gram Over the last two weeks, on social media and in mainstream news, you will have most…
Hello Crafters, It's time to explore your Art Journal and find some wonderful pictures and scen…
Did you know today is World Environment Day? Yes it maybe it's raining and a little bit colder than…
Here are five ideas to fill the bank holiday that you can do from home, or whilst out walking. Thes…
Hello! Welcome to Mental Health Awareness week! With everything that is going on in the…
App Reviews This week for our Friday Five, we decided to look at some of the apps that have been…
Did you get our newsletter? You can see it by clicking here Hello crafters! This week, it is …
We're off on our bank holiday tomorrow! Here is our Throwback Thursday with ideas for how to celebr…
Did you know that we run a lego club in Ashford and also in Iwade! This is a great place for young …
The wonderful Victoria, our college SENCO has taken up residence this week in our blog news! Th…
Welcome back to your Friday Five! Here are our five top picks for this week! 1. The Garden Post…
Hello Crafters! Remember that we collected some leaves and flowers. It's time to have a look at …
Designing Backgrounds All our preparation yesterday was towards an art journal project! Today w…
Hello crafters,Our Creative Craft tutor Sophie has designed some wonderful Creative Craft Proj…
We are back with our Friday Five, the best of everything we have received in our inbox! 1. The …
Over the last month, life at Brogdale CIC has reshaped and remoulded itself into shapes and sizes t…
Good Friday: We are back with our top 5 picks for you this week! The authors of the I Have …
https://youtu.be/C5o7U859E-A Yesterday we launched a competition for young people (8-18, 25 wi…
Top 5 Resources: Every week we will round-up of some of the week's best resources Ke…
We've been sent this great resource from Mindheart. You can find it in many different languages her…
Today Brogdale CIC turns 10! There has been a lot of growing... ...and there is even more th…
Victoria our wonderful Craftworks College SENCO has created some social stories to help those with …
Hello - We have been sent some wonderful social story resources recommended by the Autism Educator …
As part of Children's Mental Health Week, we asked our students at Muddy Wellies and Food with Frie…
Find Your Brave Summer 2018, I'm stood with a group of people I hardly know in front of 400 met…
Craftworks College opened its doors to nine Year 11 pupils from The Sittingbourne School. We toured…
Pruning Time is back and more than that it is growing! It has been said that sometimes leaves a…
Congratulations to another of our Craftworks Students! J is now in his third year at Craftworks stu…
Craftworks Growth This year our Post-16 Specialist Provider College has rolled out to a new site…
Watch our Great British Bake Off, move over Masterchef; we've got some young people passionate …
With Wedding season still in full swing, we were invited to be part of a very special event. …
Today we are back in the office after a summer of amazing activities and catching up with all the n…
📸 @tiredfromwhitstable used with permission Our Monday night disability club have been havin…
We had a great time last week at our Walled Garden Site last week as we hosted a Drama Workshop…
Our group for young people with disabilities has organised some amazing trips this summer, includin…
Summer in Ashford officially kicked off today with Project Trust opening it's doors at Wyvern Schoo…
Here Comes the Sun! We are well into Term 6 now at school, and with only a few weeks to go, what…
Rainy days and mondays What do you do when your plans have to change? Our Monday night youth clu…
Join Denise at Muddle Puddles every first and third Saturday of the month. Muddy Puddles is a garde…
What can you do on a Thursday after school? Come and join us at Growing for the Future! This cl…
We have a vacancy available! Position: Cook and FOH at Food with Friends, Ashford Gateway plus …
With the fantastic weather over the Easter break we held our Easter Activities for disabled young pe…
We are starting a new project with some of our learning disabled adults and are in need of any old o…
Congratulations! YEY. Many of our Craftwork students have received their functional skills certif…
Halloween has grown in popularity over the past couple of decades and Brogdale CIC are joining in th…
Why not come along and join us at the Brogdale Market at Brogdale. Brogdale CIC is getting involv…
We had all weathers yesterday at our very first Market, The Marketplace at Brogdale Farm…
Once again the 'A' team at the cafe are hosting some creative and spooky fun sessions making some we…
Great News !! Our Iwade site has recently got chickens and we have some cute photos of them right he…
We are happy to announce our wild life ponds are doing great attracting lots of fantastic wild life!…
Look what fun we had over the Easter holidays at our Easter activity's held at Wyvern school. Unfo…
The Brogdale CIC team have been very busy this week. Headed by staff member Dale the Pruning Time ga…
We are really delighted that Cathy McClymont has begun teaching our Craftworks students this week. …
Each week during term-time we are lucky enough to have a couple of students from St Nicholas School …
Our wonderful Cooking Up Ideas Club in Faversham have been learning how to prepare and cook healthy …
On Friday the whole Brogdale Team meet for a day of learning, team building and a chance to chat to …
Louise the Mentoring Trainer has been working with The Abbey School in Faversham over the past few w…
Heart FM have once again brought their Giving Tree to Bluewater. Shoppers can donate a present to he…
It was pumpkin decorating this Saturday at our Gardening for the Future Club. The young attendees …
The Cooking up Ideas Club started getting in to the Halloween Spirit... the youngsters all put their…
'Where were you last Saturday the 14th of October? Did you notice a Fantastic family of Foxes? Or ma…
At Cooking Up Ideas in Ashford this week we have made some fun emoji cupcakes! Using different colou…
Here at Brogdale we try and include everyone in the fun activities we do regardless of any disabilit…
Over the summer at Brogdale we have been on a number of fun trips from visiting Wingham Wildlife Par…
At the last few sessions of Youth Club, our youngsters have been designing and creating posters as p…
So we grew something unusual ... Jelly melon also known as horned fruit and blow fish fruit, we are …
During the summer, Muddy Wellies held summer activities based on four themes: Art attack, Bush Trial…
There are a wide range of activities for children happening in our Café in Ashford over the Summer …
Jacob was very busy constructing a cave man house at our Lego Club on Friday - great work! 😁 O…
GFF is our fabulous gardening club run on a Saturday at Brogdale Farm by Sian and Zac - the hard wor…
There is never a dull moment when you work for Brogdale CIC and last Friday was the perfect example…
If you are popping down to Muddy Wellies on a Tuesday or a Thursday over the next few weeks, you’l…
Well our friends from Green Park Primary, who are now half way through their Bridging a Gap programm…
It’s always difficult to say goodbye to new friends when they complete our Good to be Me programme…
Well actually there is this time, thanks to the damp conditions!! This is a group from Homewood S…
Year 6 from ValeView school in Dover. On our Good to be Me programme at The Bay Trust in St Margret…
For those of you who didn’t view our last blog posted earlier today in Tumblr then you won’t hav…
Next Tuesday at Cooking up Ideas we will be making Lemon Drizzle cake and tacos. Yummy!! Cookin…
This Saturday, March 21 we will be planting potatoes, sowing seeds and having a good dig over. The …
During the February half term, ten young people aged between 12 and 18 and four members of staff fro…
Our recent brilliant activities and youth work were recognised and we were lucky enough to have a de…
Over these past few weeks it has been very much, Pruning time to the rescue! Donned with a new, per…
It was a month of February ‘fun days’ at our weekly Ashford Youth Club. Tables were piled with L…
The schools have become budding kitchen gardeners this month each planting their own pea-pods and se…
This month the Muddy Wellies farm has been keeping us as busy as ever, occupying us with the many jo…
February the 19th marked the start of Chinese New Year ‘the year of the horse’ so this year we d…
Always keen to do our bit for charity and get stuck in - this weeks youth group consisted of numerou…
It became unconventional architect day at our annual end of term event on February the 19th at West …
A wise man once said ‘Sometimes the struggle makes success even sweeter’ and that it does! He…
Lifted from their hinges, having been battered by the storm, our poor poly-tunnels lay broken and de…
Due to the unpredictable climate/typical British weather, we have been eagerly awaiting the imminent…
It may be cold and it may be muddy, it may even be a little storm damaged. But Muddy Wellies is t…
“Happy New Year!” They cried with joy as the doors to the hall swung open. Unable to believe …
John is the music man and he comes from over there! What does he play? He plays the… P.C.? Yes …
With so many wonderful things to make and millions of cool and interesting designs you’d be distra…
With each male rabbit (buck) reproducing with about 10 different partners in their warrens and each …
The best way to bond with your children is to sit and share an enjoyable past time. Lego is one o…
The Leaves are all near fallen, the winter is creeping in. People are out to shop for loved ones …
Lego club is always a blast. This time it was fabulous too! We had a visit from a professional na…
It’s not only the kids who enjoy a good day’s work, out in the fresh air. All that hard work …
Drum roll please! Our guys should soon be able to help out with my ridiculous demands as we warml…
Throughout Kent: a group of like minded people weekly take to the streets and fields. Helping bot…
We have always had something worth shouting about and this week we had the whole nation listening! …
Everyone who runs a home knows that tidying up can take a while. But our guys know that tidying u…
With all the commotion of the season, people often forget that it’s the little things which can ma…
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