Creating space
Welcome
The African Workshop works with kids, artists and musicians in Mali. Together we run a community centre in Bamako, one of the world’s poorest cities.
Kids can drop in for free music lessons, to borrow a football or to paint. They can also come to hang out with other young people, enjoy a hot meal or just play. The workshop also offers literacy classes, health advice and vital training. More than anything it lets kids be kids.
Latest News
Bebside School & the African Workshop
Two bits of great news this week: First, the African Workshop is now a fully registered UK charity (number 1137427). And the second is a lovely bit of news coverage about the Bebside Middle School shipment.
Charity status
We’ve got charity status!
When another email arrived from the Charity Commission I thought they wanted more explanations, to sift deeper into the bank accounts, or that I’d missed a line on a form. Maybe I should have paid a lawyer, I thought. But the only person I knew who’d done that had been ripped off, [...]
School on the move
Press release:
A class of middle school children have donated their entire school to our charity.
Chairs, desks, musical instruments and classroom supplies for up to 500 pupils are on their way to the African Workshop’s community centre in Mali thanks to the efforts of pupils at Bebside Middle School, in Blyth, Northumberland.
The youngsters and their teachers [...]