Treacle Valley Adventures 2024
We are excited to announce that we will once again be running Treacle Valley Adventures during the school holidays! These immersive nature-focused camps have been really popular and give young people the opportunity to get outdoors, make new friends and have fun in the school holidays.
Introducing… the ACE Project!
We’re delighted to be able to announce a pilot project for families of children with SEND, which we will be running every Thursday morning from 18th January until 28th March 2024. We’ve called it the ACE Project because it brings together three things that we love at Taleblazers – art, craft and the environment. This […]
Tales from Tudor Torre Abbey
On 29th June, we were joined by students from Sherwell Valley Primary School to learn all about the history of
Torre Abbey and the Tudors.
The students visited the Spanish Barn, explored the gardens on a Tudor herb hunt, conquered a riddle trail through the museum and heard tales of ghosts and galleons.
Creative Cullompton Roman Festival – Gallery
We were delighted to receive some photos through from Creative Cullompton, taken of Stacey working on the mosaic with visitors. Thank you to Kathy Coley Photography for allowing us to use these great pictures!
Creative Cullompton Roman Festival
Our part in Cullompton Roman festival, which celebrated not only Roman Cullompton, but the recent archeological digs at the Hill Fort.
Ted Hughes Poetry Trail at Stover Country Park
Lonely keeper of the gold In the tumbled cleave. A bird out of Merlin’s ear. from ‘Wren’, by Ted Hughes One of the things I love about Taleblazers is that I get to spend most of my working week outdoors, exploring the coast and moors with our young people. Together we go to a whole […]
National Poetry Day: Inchcape Bell
To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we have a poem of wrongs and retribution, read by our very own storyteller and balladeer, Kev Johns. The poem is ‘Inchcape Rock’; a ballad originally written by Robert Southey in 1802. The poem tells the story of a warning bell that was placed on Inchcape, a notorious hidden rock that posed […]
John Muir Day: Hembury Woods
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir Today is John Muir Day, marking Muir’s 184th birthday and commemorating his life and the Trust and Award set up in his name. Muir is known as the ‘father […]
Terrible Tales of Torre Abbey
Today is International “I love to write“ Day (apparently) and I have been tasked with putting together a little piece to cover that particular topic as well as our recent Halloween event that Taleblazers put on at Torre Abbey. Let me start by making this very clear: I do not love to write. Well, at least not mechanically. Being a comorbid dyspraxic has meant my life has been a […]
Trails Day & Chelston Heritage Map
What a beautiful weekend it has been and we were celebrating Trails Day which took place on Saturday the 5th. What is Trails Day you may wonder? Well, in 1968 American president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Trails Act into law which established a network of trails for people to use. Trails Day celebrates the […]