the happy makers

21/01/2026

25/11/2025

The Happy Makers have done a lot of making this year, we have had lots of fantastic sessions, events and days out and generally shared lots of fun with lots of wonderful people…. But we haven’t been posting!! We have decided that it is time for us to catch up so hopefully we will be sharing a lot more in the weeks to come…

25/11/2025

Happy making Oragami butterflies with the New Vic Theatre Open House Group.

21/11/2025

Photos from a fantastic trip to Manchester Science and Industry Museum…

21/11/2025

Another fabulous trip out, today we had lots of fun at Manchester science Museum.

07/11/2025

We are really excited to be bringing some Open House sessions to Leek over the next few weeks. Lots of fun to be had we hope so please pass on to anyone that you might know would benefit from joining us or share if you wouldn’t mind.

15/10/2025

Do you know anyone that would like to come along and join us for a free session in Leek in November or December? Dates below

22/05/2025

We’ve had a wonderful time embracing nature this week with Alex and Emily. We foraged for Cleavers as a treat for the horses, gathered sticks for our dead-hedging, picked and arranged flowers, and worked on some designs for a scarecrow to build in another session. To top it all off Alex made some fruit cocktails with herbs from the garden…. non-alcoholic of course! 😄
Lots of fun was had by all!

21/04/2025

Portraits Inspired by our day out at Manchester Museum of illusion…

21/04/2025

A Wonderful day out with Alex and Emily in Manchester at The Museum of Illusions…

10/04/2025

Yippee!
Many thanks to OUTSIDE arts for your generosity.

24/02/2025

Another lovely workshop held at The New Vic Theatre, this time with their Open House group which aims to reach out to those feeling isolated - to encourage people to form bonds of friendship and combat loneliness.