Current Projects & Activities

Kindly supported by the Unlock Futures Fund from Bicester Village, this weekly arts-based group provides a safe, creative space for up to ten young people aged 13. -18 who face anxiety, school refusal, and social withdrawal. 

The sessions used artmaking as a tool for dialogue and personal growth.

A series of workshops subsidised by A2 Dominion and Oxfordshire Community Foundation. 

We provide affordable, multi-generational creative workshops, supporting confidence and social interaction in Elmsbrook, a sustainable village on the outskirts of Bicester. 

Creative Connections is a programme of gentle creative activities and practical wellbeing for adults in West Bicester seeking connection, confidence and creativity.

Creative Connections has been made possible through funding from Cherwell District Council’s Bicester West Community Insight Fund, with match funding from Oxfordshire Community Foundation’s Community Capacity Fund.

We work with Bicester Community Support Service (BCSS) to provide regular creative wellbeing sessions for adults with a range of additional needs. 

Our 2026 programme of 12 BCSS creative wellbeing sessions has been funded through Oxfordshire Community Foundation's Community Capacity Fund. 

Bicester Festival is being reimagined for 2027, bringing together local artists, performers, community organisations and residents to celebrate creativity across the town.

Bumble Creatives has taken an active role in helping move the festival into its next chapter, supporting its development, rebuilding its online presence and working with local partners to explore what a renewed Bicester Festival could become.

Dreamers Club is a free weekly creative space for 9–12 year olds, developed in partnership with The Mill Arts Centre.

It's a place to make, experiment and follow your ideas. Each week brings different materials, activities and opportunities to try something new — with plenty of freedom to take things in your own direction.

Market Makes Us is a community arts project celebrating Bicester's historic Friday Market and the people, stories and creativity that keep it part of the town today.

Working with local residents, market visitors and schools, we invited people to explore what the market means to them and contribute their ideas to a colourful shared piece of work for Bicester.

We are a certified Arts Award Centre for Bicester, following funded training, allowing us to offer nationally recognised creative qualifications.

We are developing a nature-connected strand of our creative wellbeing work, bringing together therapeutic arts, community connection and gentle outdoor practice. 

Building on our existing work with adults, young people and children, this page shares the direction of travel for how we hope to grow nature-based wellbeing opportunities in Bicester and surrounding villages.

What Makes a Home? brought children and young people together to explore a deceptively simple question: 

what makes a home?

The project began with creative workshops in local primary schools and then expanded into an intensive week of creativity, storytelling and filmmaking, giving young people the opportunity to explore the theme through a different creative lens.

A six-week intergenerational creative health project at Bicester Community Hospital, alongside Creative Minds. This initiative brought together young people and patients through playful and reflective creative sessions designed to spark connection and conversation.