📣 We are so excited to announce our theme for Spoken Word Power 2025-26…
“What We Share”
This theme encourages young people to explore common experiences, emotions, and values that connect them, across differences in background, culture, or identity.
‘What We Share’ empowers students to find their voice, listen to others, and recognise the strength in what connects us all.
🔗 Find out more about Spoken Word Power and how to get involved through the link in our bio.
Your favourite comedian Hugh Dennis was back to host April Foolery, an annual fundraising for charity @eastsidelondon .
The comedy and jazz event held in London’s Criterion Theatre saw the likes of @jennyeclair1960 performing, raising over £29,000 for Lund Fund, a campaign for disadvantaged children.
Eastside’s mission is to inspire young people through participation in arts programmes, having delivered 1,725 workshops reaching 40,173 young people across the country in 2022/2023.
To learn more about the event check the link in bio.
#SDG4 #QualityEducation
🎥 Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week with a FREE creative livestream 🎥
Join us on the 14th of May for a FREE 50-minute workshop, led by expert facilitators Ella and Paul, to promote positive mental health and boost PSHE outcomes in your classroom.
This interactive livestream will use drama activities and techniques to help your KS2 students celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week and add to their emotional toolkit.
📆Thursday 14th May at 2:00 - 2:50pm
📍Online
🔗Sign up through the link in our bio
Support your KS2 students with their transition to secondary school life with Eastside’s Celebrating Wellbeing workshops!
These workshops celebrate and foreground positive mental health and expression and boost personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) outcomes. Students will be provided with a safe space to creatively and healthily express their emotions and experiences, especially around the topics of uncertainty and change in relation to transition between KS2 and KS3.
All workshops are led by Eastside’s expert facilitators and build key personal and academic skills for all participating children, including emotional literacy, resilience, speaking & listening, confidence and collaboration.
🔗 Find out more about how these workshops could work for your students’ needs through the link in our bio
📖 Want to see your students become published poets?
Submit your students’ poems by Friday 24th April 2026 to be featured in this year’s Spoken Word Power Anthology, ‘What We Share’.
Spoken Word Power Live is a free online poetry programme for schools across the UK and beyond.
🔗 Find out how to get involved through the link in our bio
By signing up, you will have access to a wealth of digital resources to support you in making poetry relevant and engaging for your students and boost their oracy skills.
Here’s a little behind the scenes from our recent partner day.
We brought together our brilliant funded organisations for a tour of the stadium, and an open conversation about our strategy and the impact we’re building together.
A huge thank you to all who joined us, we’re so proud to support your work!
#funding #community #communityfunding #charity #brent @brentcouncil@bloomsburyfootball@theeafa@kilntheatre@greenhousesports
📣 Applications are now open for a free street art project this summer term, and we want your school to be part of it!
Eastside and Stratford Junction are inviting KS2 classes across East London to explore the theme “Love East London” with professional street artists.
Pupils will develop their own designs and contribute to a large-scale mural painted on a real London bus at Stratford Junction.
The program is free to participate in, and spaces are limited.
The deadline to express your interest is Monday 20th April at noon.
🔗 Apply through the link in our bio
📣 We're delighted to share that over the last week we've raised £12,337 through the Big Give: Arts for Impact campaign last week.
Every donation will go directly to Spoken Word Power, our flagship programme placing professional spoken word artists in Hackney primary schools and culminating in a West End showcase at the Criterion Theatre.
Thank you to everyone who supported us! ⭐️
Empowering the next generation, one poem at a time!
We recently joined the team at Eastside for their fantastic Spoken Word Power event. It was a great chance to catch up with CEO Matt Lane and discuss the impact of our grant and how we can all better support young people in London.
We’re proud to support Eastside’s work in Lambeth, providing a platform for young people to develop their creativity and confidence.
🔗 Head to the link in our bio to explore the organisations we support.
#YouthEmpowerment #London #SpokenWord #ArtsFunding #GrantMaking
🎤It’s been one week since we were in the wonderful Criterion Theatre for our Spoken Word Power Sharing event!
Throughout the day, we welcomed over 600 young people to the theatre to share their poetry on stage, including one school that came all the way from Rotherham in South Yorkshire!
A special thank you to all the artists, teachers and Eastside team who made this day happen.
🔗 Find out more about the programme through the link in our bio
📸 Sophie Burrows
📣 Final chance to double your donation to Eastside.
The Big Give #ArtsForImpact campaign closes at midnight on Tuesday - meaning every pound you give becomes two. This teacher’s words say it better than we ever could. Help us make sure more young people across East London get that experience.
🔗 Donate now through the link in our bio
#BigGive #ArtsEducation #SpokenWordPower
⭐️ There's still time to double your donation to Eastside.
We're halfway through Big Give's #ArtsForImpact campaign and every pound given through Big Give is still being matched. Whether you've been meaning to give or are hearing about this for the first time, now is a brilliant moment to make your support go further.
🔗 Donate before 24th March through the link in our bio.
#ArtsForImpact #BigGive #ArtsEducation
