HAPpy Camps

This summer, The Craft Room welcomed children aged 5–11 to our summer craft camps at Breaks Manor Youth and Community Centre for three days of creativity, games, food and plenty of fun. Across the three days, the children had the chance to try a range of different creative activities. We got stuck into diamond art painting, made colourful masks, and built and decorated our own planet models. Each activity gave the children the opportunity to try something different, get creat

Happy Camps Funded by Herts Sport Partnership This summer, The Craft Room took our holiday camp to The Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City, giving our young people the chance to enjoy a fun-filled day of creativity, food, sport, and plenty of laughter. Our craft space was in full swing as the children got stuck into pearl painting, creating some beautiful and completely individual pieces to take home. It was lovely to see the children getting creative, trying something new an

Welwyn Hatfield Fire Service We were so honoured to have a visit from our local firefighters recently, and what an eye-opening...

This Easter, The Craft Room was buzzing with excitement, giggles, and a whole lot of chocolate – and it’s all thanks to some truly...

2024 was a fantastic year for The Craft Room’s work tackling food waste and supporting local families. Working in partnership with Neighbourly, we were able to turn surplus food and other unwanted items into real community benefit. Together, we rescued an incredible 5 tonnes of food from landfill, equivalent to 13,582 meals, while also rescuing over 1 tonne of non-food waste. This meant perfectly good food and products could be put to use rather than going to waste. The impac

Photo left to right: The Craft Room Secretary, Beverley (Asda) and Elaine Jones (Treasurer) We want to take a moment to extend a...

We were thrilled to welcome Andrew Lewin, our newly elected Labour MP, to our holiday camp recently! Photo Left to Right: Treasurer, Secretary, Andrew Lewin MP, John O Callaghan Even though he had only been in his new role for five weeks, Andrew made time to visit us and see the incredible work we’re doing here at The Craft Room. It was a true pleasure to show him the impact our holiday camps are having on children and families in the community. Andrew wasn’t the only specia

We are absolutely thrilled to share some amazing news with our Craft Room family! Thanks to the incredible generosity of Arise Hatfield ,...