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It All Makes Sensory 2025

November 2025

  • Setting up the materials.

  • Esme and Lara warming up the group

  • Lara helps a resident hold the paint brush

  • Christine painting from her chair

  • Esme, full of smiles and warmth

  • June's turn with a brush!

  • Esme and a resident connecting

  • Lara offering the large brush

  • Paintings created by residents

  • Long brushes specially designed for seated users

  • Lara and Esme showing residents their paintings

  • Sarah's reaction to her painting says it all!

Thanks to return Croydon Loves You funding by Croydon Council, we ran It All Makes Sensory Workshops for Acacia Care Centre and Heavers Court residents. Building on relationships developed in previous projects, we brought in Esme Allman and Lara Marshall to facilitate these workshops. Knowing that many of the residents had limited mobility, Esme and Lara created these long bamboo brushes so participants could paint from their chairs in this session. 

All photos by Jon Cardwell.