IGNITING OUR CREATIVITY REVOLUTION
We believe in the power of creativity and help schools and communities run inspiring and engaging creativity days.
We’re on a mission to inspire a million kids to aim higher than high, powered by their creativity and our communities.
Helping them find their passion, their art - maybe to make some money, to make some friends, to make the world a better place.
In this, our #STEAMpowered24, year, we're using our past to inspire all our futures.
IGNITING OUR CREATIVITY REVOLUTION
We believe in the power of creativity and help schools and communities run inspiring and engaging creativity days.
We’re on a mission to inspire a million kids to aim higher than high, powered by their creativity and our communities.
Helping them find their passion, their art - maybe to make some money, to make some friends, to make the world a better place.
In this, our #STEAMpowered24, year, we're using our past to inspire all our futures.
OUR CREATIVITY REVOLUTION?
We’ve been doing what we do for 10 years now, in anger for the last 8 after the CEO of Arts Council England called for a ‘Creativity Revolution’ in 2016.
Where better then to launch it than Ironbridge, birthplace of the industrial revolution (and with it the climate crisis), and the other two counties that helped power it.
We now need to scale our work at speed by getting STEAMsters and our Art Trucks on the road, initally working with schools and communities in Shropshire/NorthWest, Cornwall/South West and Yorkshire/North East - using the IndustriaL Revolution as our inspiration as you can see here
We’ve been doing what we can, but can’t do it alone. The Co. in STEAM Co. stands for Collaboration.
Let’s #CollaborateForCreativity like we did with McLaren at the British Grand Prix and the Hopetown Visitor Centre in Darlington
#OURSPACECAMP24 - AN OUT OF THIS WORLD COLLABORATION
Who knew that a book found in a charity shop, would take our co-founder Nick on a mission to Tranquility Base itself?
As we say in #OurRocketKids Sessions in schools, the secret is to Read, Read, Read.
Showing the power of The #ArtOfBooks, The #ArtOfRockets and the #ArtOf Inspiration, this story is proof that #ArtConnects.
A story of a mission to Space Camp USA.
It’s #OurSpaceCamp24 🧑🚀 - click here to find out more.
A COLLABORATION WITH MCLAREN F1
We were blown away to go to Shropshire to make a film with McLaren to help launch the Creativity Revolution.
They put our logo on the front of their cars at the British Grand Prix which saw Lando Norris get his best F1 podium result - a STEAM powered result!
SEE MORE about this collaboration and watch an assembly we did in a school with Lando here
WATCH THE MCLAREN FILM BELOW
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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 #CreativityCrisis and need to scale quickly to reach more schools, so we need your support now.
The #OurMillion 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 our creative community engagement model can scale we want to get the first three trucks on the road in Shropshire, Cornwall and Yorkshire - three places synonymous with the first industrial revolution - where cardboard is our cast iron, art is the coal, the oil and caring, creativity and community are our driving force.
MAKE A DONATION
If you want to put some rocket fuel in our tank to to help keep us flying high you can donate to our GoFundMe appeal here
BOOK US FOR YOUR SCHOOL
Why not book a half or full day OurRocketKids session or full STEAM Co. Day for your kids’ school here to kick off next term.
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
MORE ABOUT STEAM CO.
Watch the film below about how and why STEAM Co. started and their mission to connect our kids with their art.
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Collaborate with us
We’ve been grateful for support and collaborations across the board, from hi tech and high finance to festivals and famous friends of friends like the the Edge Foundation, Hipgnosis Music and EdTech UK.
Charitable Education Trust LGfL and The Department of Culture helped us re-engineer our community engagement model in lockdown and we haven’t looked back since.
Then we were asked if we’d like to be Sponsor X
We thought about it for longer than some might give us credit for, but we’re tired of preaching to the converted, so we bit their hand off.
Collaborate with us
We’ve been grateful for support and collaborations across the board, from hi tech and high finance to festivals and famous friends of friends like the the Edge Foundation, Hipgnosis Music and EdTech UK.
Charitable Education Trust LGfL and The Department of Culture helped us re-engineer our community engagement model in lockdown and we haven’t looked back since.
Then we were asked if we’d like to be Sponsor X
We thought about it for longer than some might give us credit for, but we’re tired of preaching to the converted, so we bit their hand off.
We call companies and people like Smartsheet and McLaren #CreativeCarers - folk who care, care about creativity, children, communties and all our futures.
Folk who care enough to not only do something , but help folk like us to too!
We had an off the scale exciting week with them and children from across the UK during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone 7- 9th July FInd out more here
Sign up below for updates and if you can, donate to our GoFundMe appeal here
Look below at some of the work we’ve done with similar organisations and what they said.
Nothing without Google
From helping us film a launch event at the Royal Institution in 2014 to sponsoring our King’s Cross launch event in 2018 (as above), funding coding weeks and allowing Googlers along to help on STEAM Co. days, Google have a been a rock to us.
“We’re super proud of the work Nick’s doing.
An endless hero”
Nishma Robb - Marketing Director, Google
Banking on Barclays
As a Quaker Bank, they not only helped fund the world’s first railway but also helped jump start STEAM Co. by sending staff along to help on STEAM Co. Days and hosting an evening of talks at the top of their corporate HQ as above.
“This time we’re leaving no one behind.
Thats why we’re working with Nick and STEAM Co.”
Ashok Vaswani - CEO Barclays Bank
LET’S COLLABORATE FOR CREATIVITY
Get in touch if your company would like to collaborate with a day in a local school to give your employees a day out full of purpose.
Or if you want to sponsor one of our Pop-Up Creativity Day Art Trucks for a year, or just donate to our GoFundMe appeal here
A Whole Village
A few years ago a dad co-founded a project with his sons’ school community to help their kids aim higher, powered by creativity and community.
STEAM Co. was born, grounded in the belief ‘it takes a whole village to inspire a child’, that we all have to help our kids find their passion in life. Their art.
Many in our schools, communities and across the arts and business worlds have collaborated with him and provided rocket fuel for his journey.
Nick Corston’s not stopped since, flying round the UK in #StarShip22 running creativity days in schools across the UK, live streaming as he goes.
He now needs your help to turbo charge his work.
A Whole Village
A few years ago a dad co-founded a project with his sons’ school community to help their kids aim higher, powered by creativity and community.
STEAM Co. was born, grounded in the belief ‘it takes a whole village to inspire a child’, that we all have to help our kids find their passion in life. Their art.
Many in our schools, communities and across the arts and business worlds have collaborated with him and provided rocket fuel for his journey.
Nick Corston’s not stopped since, flying round the UK in #StarShip22 running creativity days in schools across the UK, live streaming as he goes.
He now needs your help to turbo charge his work.
THE #OURMILLION APPEAL
Find out how we’re igniting a Creativity Revolution in the birthplace and footsteps of of the industrial revolution, by putting the first of our Art Trucks in Shropshire, Cornwall and Yorkshire.
Find out more about the #OurMillion appeal here
THE STEAM Co. STORY
All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” said Pablo Picasso
Watch the story behind STEAM Co. above and how our Creativity Days bring communities together to inspire our kids.
If you want to help write the next chapter, click here
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We've been at it for over ten years now and only just met you.
Whether you're a parent, teacher, creative or a company that wants to help make this happen in your school, get in touch. Keep in touch.
Or donate to our GoFundMe appeal here if you can
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Maybe you're a parent or teacher or another carer who'd like to find out how run a STEAM Co. day in your school.
You might be a creative individual or company that could run activities in STEAM Co. days around the UK.
If you're a prominent UK creative who would like to inspire the next generation with a one off injection of your time to provide ongoing inspiration as a STEAM Co. creative ambassador or 'inspirator', then please do get in touch, as today's children are in awe of celebrities and we want to channel that passion in the right direction as not everyone can be a footballer or soap opera star.
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