Lyndons Arts Trust is a registered charity, which has been working over the past 15 years to promote arts in the community and support art students and young graduates in the early stages of their careers.
Our workshop is based at Malorees Junior School in Kensal Rise and operates as a drop-in art centre for the school children during break-hours. In the afternoons it becomes an After-School Club, parents and carers are invited to join in the sessions and create art with their children.
The workshop is fitted with 2 kilns, offering pottery and clay facilities, while our specialist art-tutors additionally give children the chance to experience a wide variety of art forms such as glass art, book art, batik, puppet-making, paper-craft.
Students and young graduates can undertake training here, developing their artistic and technical skills, learning how to prepare and present workshops, and gaining experience in working with children of various ages and abilities. Many of our internees have progressed to paid teaching roles and jobs within the arts sector.
Our Outreach Programme focuses on primary schools in areas of social deprivation in the City and adjoining boroughs, helping children access arts activities that would not normally be available to them. The programme is entitled “The History of the City through the Eyes of its Children” and aims to nurture the boroughs’ young residents’ sense of belonging to the community through subjects relating to trade and immigration.
Projects in the Outreach Programme are offered as Team Building Days to City companies with policies of Corporate Social Responsibility, helping young employees gain a better understanding of the community around their place of work, and giving children the chance to meet role models during the workshops.
Our three main focus subjects are “Identity”, “Conservation” and “The History of the City”, which, brought together, help children learn about themselves, their community and their cultural heritage.
