Entries by Marice Cumber

Creative Futures Update

Breaking Down Barriers This Summer saw our first Creative Futures event, a two-day workshop of networking and profile building, interview and presentation skills, and matching participants with opportunities in the creative industries. We were thrilled to be hosted by D&AD in their Shoreditch offices. This initiative, which we operate in partnership with leading creative businesses […]

Utopia: A New World for Everyone

Design, Make & Build Your New World Brand new for 2022, this project started in April this year. The brief for our participants, to create their own ‘New World.’ Over ten sessions, the final works will be displayed at this summer’s Waterloo Festival which is attended by around 500 people each year. By completing this […]

Banner of Youth

Our Banner of Youth project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, started back in March with a series of textile design workshops taking place over eight weeks taking place in the Fountain Room at the Barbican Centre in London. Our workshop poster below was shared with homeless hostels around London inviting participants to come […]

Print, Weave, Sculpt

This June, our group was super excited to start a brand new series of intensive creative workshops led by professional artists. We partnered with the University of Arts London in Camberwell on this project. Such a fantastic way for participants to learn new skills and uncover hidden talents. A three-day creative marathon!   Day One […]

Creative Futures

What is Creative Futures? Creative Futures is a free 2-day workshop taking place at D&AD offices in Shoreditch in January 2023 Creative Futures will break down the barriers for people affected by homelessness to enter the creative sector, build networks and have access to opportunities. It is a real game-changer that is completely new, will […]

Pottery & Gardening!

November brought our series of Pottery Workshop’s held at Space Studios in Hackney working with The Potting Shed. We haven’t worked with clay for a while in our workshops so it was fantastic to use this creative medium again in our sessions. Did you know ceramics are a favourite of our founder Marice Cumber, check […]

Get An Education to Give An Education

    Get An Education to Give An Education with The Accumulate Art School for the Homeless courses! Accumulate is now offering specialist online Get An Education to Give An Education courses with all profits being used to fund Accumulate creative workshops for people who are homeless and so it’s a win-win for everyone. The courses […]

Accumulate 2020/21 Showcase Event

The end of June brought us what felt like a rare chance to join together with participants, supporters and friends to look back at an incredible year. The aim of Accumulate, the Art School for the Homeless, is to improve peoples’ lives through creativity and we are proud to say that we have achieved this despite […]

May 2021 Update

And just like that June has arrived! May has been another super busy month for Accumulate so its the perfect time to look back at what we have been up to! Two New Accumulate Art Kits Our Accumulate Art Kit project is going strong with two fantastic workshops running, the first being a session around […]

Accumulate April Update!

April 2021 has been a busy month for Accumulate with some exciting new and continuing projects and good news for Accumulate! Return to The Barbican We were delighted to be able to return to the learning space at the Barbican Centre early in April to resume our face to face workshops after such a long […]