Huddersfield 21 November 2026

MAKERWORLD

The Children’s Art School is committed to promoting the value of art education for children and young people, with the aim of teaching children that through art, they can change their world.

Founded in 2015 by artist Chloe Williams, The Children’s Art School works with associate artists to make art and creative activities accessible to all. They create opportunities for joyful artmaking in various locations, helping children become inspired and develop self-confidence in their own creativity and abilities and empowering them to affect and change the world they live in.

Since 2020, The Children’s Art School has expanded its work. Alongside our regular art school programme in Holmfirth and the MakerWorld creative space for children and families in the centre of Huddersfield, they have delivered two Kirklees-wide arts festivals for children and young people, created thousands of activities packs, devised remote participatory projects and worked with partners including WOVEN in Kirklees and Kirklees Year of Music 2023 to expand the offering for children within existing festivals and programmes. As well as this, they have also developed a Kirklees-wide outreach programme in areas of high free school meal need for the Kirklees Schools Out programme, developed the space in Huddersfield town centre and piloted MakerWorld in Dewsbury.

They continue to invest in crucial partnerships with Evoke (Kirklees cultural education partnership), Kirklees Youth Alliance, as well as Kirklees Councils’ Play team and Culture and Tourism team to position ourselves as a strategic children’s arts organisation in West Yorkshire.