Sustainable Crafts –
After School Club in Portchester
Craft recycling helps to reshape attitudes about consumption through creativity and inspirational learning. Home-grown in Portchester our fun 4-week session 3:15pm – 4:15pm are available to pupils of Wicor School in Portchester
Holiday 2026 Workshops at Wicor School
Adult Workshops
Our friendly sessions introduce the potential of working with single materials, where you can begin your own journey to something amazing. Working across local towns to help those socialise and reconnect through creativity. The perfect prescription tonic.
Community Group Visits
Invite our craft recyclers to your school or club enrichment project. We travel to local schools in the Portchester and wider Fareham and Portsmouth area to demonstrate how to handle waste in a meaningful way and explain the purpose of a circular-economy.
During term time Artcycle are launching a brand-new learning programme for families, aiming to provide a vibrant and child-led space. Enjoy four sessions focussing on design and crafting with single-stream materials.
Home Education
Craft Events & Parties
Step inside the Artcycle pop-up star tent (summer only). Artcycle supply everything for an enchanting alternative for a get-together. Zero-waste and endless imagination for a party or event.
Art and Craft Club
Junior Reshapers is a riot of creative fun, every Wednesday evening! Based in the heart of Portchester. Share ideas, make friends, and grow in confidence. Sessions are limited to no more than fifteen children aged 8-12 years.
Activities such as: can crushing; plastic shredding; and litter foraging. By bridging destruction and creation children experience stewardship in a calm and nurturing space when time-out from the system is needed.
Emotional Support Referrals
Creativity Using Recycled Materials
Step-by-step guided sustainable craft learning sessions in for schools and group in Portchester and Fareham
Card & Paper
Surface pattern design with printing, paper-making and bead-making and structual 3D creative activities ideal for little fingers.
Mixed Metals
Embossing drink cans patterns, creating beautiful trinkets to admire. Participants discover surprising results. Pre-prepared workshop.
Plastics
Reimagined crisp bags into bold new ideas. Or an ordinary plastic bottle can be reshaped and transformed. We see nothing goes to waste.
Textiles
Macramé and finger knitting reveal the hidden potential of an old T-shirt, accessories and decorations with a surprising twist
Customer Reviews
Artcycle came to visit my Girls' Brigade group last week and our girls and young women (and the leaders!) loved it. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed turning plastic bottles into jellyfish, flowers or earrings and came up with some really beautiful creations, as we thought about looking after the planet and its resources better. Thank you so much!
8th Portsmouth Girls Brigade
★★★★★
I am stunned by what we created
at your event at Horndean Community Centre. Such an inspiring day.