TURBO CHARGING A REVOLUTION

Take a look at the film of our collaboration as SponsorX on the McLaren cars this summer to tell everyone about our work and to ignite a Creativity Revolution.

We now have to convert all that Brand Buzz into Lasting Legacy

CAN YOU HELP US?

STEAM Co. is a UK government registered non-profit community enterprise and has only come this far thanks to donations and hard to find sponsorship as well as a few grants when we can get them.

We fear a creativity crisis and need to scale quickly to reach more schools, so we need your support.

The #OurMillion23 appeal aims to raise a million quids to inspire a million kids by getting up to 23 of our Pop-Up Creativity Day Art Trucks on the road with a STEAMSter, fully funded for a year to run sessions for free in schools and communities, at fetes and festivals.

To prove it can scale we want to get the first three in:

  • Shropshire and the West Midlands - birthplace of the industrial revolution

  • Cornwall and the South West - where the stream engine was invented

  • Yorkshire and the North East - coal country, and art is the coal of this revolution

By World Creativity Day on 21st April 2024.

We have an audacious plan for a bold match funder. Read on.

MAKE A DONATION

If you want to put some rocket fuel in our tank to to help keep us flying high you can make a donation via PayPal here

BOOK YOUR SCHOOL IN

Why not book a half or full day sampler session or full STEAM Co. Day for your kids’ school here

PAY FOR A CREATIVITY DAY

Our schools are broke. If you can pay £750 for one of our full creativity days in a school, then click here

SPONSOR AN ART TRUCK

Companies that share our belief in creativity and community can fully fund a STEAMster and art truck for a year here

OUR BIG BOOK BET

Check out the chat Nick had here on the BBC Radio and TV news about the campaign we launched on #GivingTuesday, to find a generous donor who will match fund the first work we need to do to start scaling STEAM Co.

Books change lives. We know one that certainly has and another that just might turbo charge that!

Yes, books change lives and none more than the copy of ‘Rocket Boys’ that a grandad found in an Oxfam bookshop in Shropshire.

It tells the inspiring story in a dead end coal mining town of Homer Hickam who didn’t want to follow his dad into the pit and how he aimed high, learned to make rockets and ended up working for NASA.

It inspired our story and is why we make and fire rockets, to inspire kids to aim higher than high, powered by their creativity.

But another book, found in an Oxfam bookshop could change even more lives.

Made from pulped copies of Orwell’s seminal 1984, this copy is a work of art - conceptual art where the idea is bigger than the execution - and sold out when put on sale in the Oxfam bookshop in South Wales, generating sales of £125k.

Which is exactly half of what we need to roll out the first three of our PopUp Creativity Day Trucks and fully funded STEAMsters.

So we’re looking for someone who will make us a bet.

Someone who will pledge £125k for both books.

If we DON’T raise the £125k, our match funder can keep the books and their money. We’ll keep what we’ve raised and do what we can with it

If we DO raise it then we’ll have the £250k we need to get our first three Art Trucks on the road in Shropshire, Cornwall and Yorkshire running a year of free creativity days in schools and communities, at fetes and festivals to prove our creative community engagement model can work.

We’ll also kick off the #RocketKidsClub that Homer Hickam has generously offered to be the Patron of and start live streaming a weekly #RocketKidsShow on our YouTube channel with special guests, creative activities and updates to keep kids inspired after we’ve visited them.

If it does work we’ll then go out and raise the other £750k to get up to 23 more Art Trucks and STEAMsters on the road.

So there you have it, the closest thing to a business plan we’ve ever written.

BUY THE BOOKS NOW HERE ON GUMTREE

Interested in the #1984in23 campaign click here for more on that!

#OUR LANDo BOX SET

We were delighted when McLaren replaced one of their sponsors’ logos on their cars with ours at the British Grand Prix this year and made the film above about our work to help ignite the #CreativityRevolution23

It was great Brand Buzz, for them and us, but we really needed Lasting Legacy.

Sadly they weren’t able to match fund or donate to the #OurMillion23 appeal which is why we’re selling our books above and are asking for a quid if you’d like to see a film of what happened when their superstar driver Lando Norris came into a school with us.

You can see that and the whole Rocket Kids assembly we did here