About Us
A Wild Imagination is not an abstract idea.
It has grown from years of working with children, building creative communities and reflecting deeply on what education can and should feel like.
We have over 10 years experience in education delivering co-curricular clubs that give children opportunities to explore their creativity through design, architecture, coding, robotics and creative problem-solving.
What began as a single Lego-based club with 12 students has grown over seven years into a programme serving more than 1,000 students each week.
We now want to collaborate with a group of parents to set up a not for profit to offer something even more ambitious for children.
Throughout that growth, one principle remained constant:
Creativity is not an optional extra. It is essential.
Why A Wild Imagination?
As parents ourselves we have noticed children expressing a desire for more time to “play and create” and to spend more time outdoors and the question became personal.
If education can feel nurturing, but still leave children longing for more creativity and nature, what might a different balance look like?
A Wild Imagination is our attempt to explore that question.
Not alone, but alongside a community of families who feel similarly drawn.
Starting Small, Thinking Big
We are beginning with a clear and focused intention: to create a nurturing, alternative educational space for children in the Brighton and Lewes area.
Our priority is local.
We want to build something thoughtful, grounded and genuinely responsive to the families who become part of it. At the same time, we recognise the potential for something larger to grow from this humble beginning.
If we are able to create a framework that truly works for our children, one that balances creativity, rigour, community and wellbeing, we would love to eventually make that learning model openly available.
Our hope is that other parents in different parts of the country might adapt it to form their own local groups, building networks of small, rooted learning communities.
Perhaps, in time, these communities might even come together for shared summer camps, collaborative creative projects and a wider connection.
Looking further ahead still, we hold a quiet optimism that a thriving example of education centred on confident, creative and emotionally intelligent young people could open doors to meaningful dialogue with:
Mainstream schools
Local councils
Those shaping education policy
We are starting small. We are staying local.
But we believe small beginnings can carry far-reaching influence.
If this vision makes you perk up and you would like to be part of shaping it, we would love to hear from you!