We are looking forward to seeing you at our next Creative Connection Club, a space for Neurodivergent adults to connect over creative exploration.
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When & Where
Date: Friday 12th June 2025
Time: 7 to 9pm (please do not arrive early – doors open at 7)
Location: Stone Bay Room, Queen’s Road Baptist Church, Broadstairs, CT10 1NU (see “Access & Transportation” details below for public transport and car parking details.)
What is the Creative Connection Club?
The NDFT Creative Connection Club is a programme designed to complement our regular social meetups and coffee mornings, offering a dedicated space for Neurodivergent adults to explore a range of creative activities shaped by community interest. Each month, sessions are facilitated by professional artists and practitioners, with a focus on creativity, connection, and environmental sustainability.
Found Sound part 1, Workshop Details
Led by Steph Dickinson, this workshop invites you to gently explore your everyday environment through the lens of sound and songwriting. Whether you’re new to music or an experienced creative, this session centres play, sensory exploration, and connection. No pressure, just discovery.
You’ll be guided through grounding listening exercises, exploring found or recycled objects (think pebbles and jars) as instruments. With voice, ambient textures, and lyrical prompts, we’ll co-create a shared soundscape or group song that reflects place, feeling, and the rhythms of daily life. All activities are trauma-informed and paced to support different Neurodivergent experiences, with the freedom to participate solo, in pairs, or as a group.
This is a low-waste, resourceful approach to music-making, with no specialist gear required. You’re encouraged to bring along found materials from your environment, but extras will be available. We’ll also reuse or donate anything left behind, supporting sustainability throughout the process.
This session is suitable for Neurodivergent adults of all backgrounds and skill levels. There’s no need for musical experience, just bring an open mind and a willingness to listen closely to the world around you.
Expect a warm, supportive atmosphere, where your pace is respected, your creativity is valued, and your voice–however it shows up–is welcome.
Workshop schedule
- 7-7.15pm – Arrival & settling in
- 7.15-7.30pm – Grounding exercise
- 7.30-7.50pm – Found sound object discovery
- 7.50-8.10pm – Sound games with objects
- 8.10-8.20pm – BREAK
- 8.20-8.40pm – Writing / drawing prompts
- 8.40-9pm – Group Sound Collage
Facilitator Bio
Steph Dickinson is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist with a deep-rooted belief in the power of music to nurture expression, connection and wellbeing. Over the past 20 years, she has led creative workshops in schools, pupil referral units, community spaces and arts settings. From 2014 to 2023, she was CEO of Pie Factory Music, where she championed inclusive music education and led programmes that empowered young creatives and built lasting community connections.
Her facilitation is shaped by lived experience, intuition and care. She specialises in working with people who have been marginalised by society, using songwriting and sound as accessible tools for exploration and self-expression. She takes a responsive, trauma-informed approach that centres safety, autonomy, choice and fun.
Whether we’re making rhythms with glass jars or shaping songs from the everyday, Steph’s aim is to support curiosity. Her role is to guide gently, create space for discovery, and hold a creative environment where all ways of showing up are welcome.
Is the Creative Connection Club for you?
Who are our workshops for?
Neurodivergent Friends workshops are for Neurodivergents adults from all backgrounds and all abilities, whether diagnosed, self-identifying or questioning*.
*Neuro-curious (questioning whether you might be Neurodivergent) and self-diagnosed/self-identifying individuals are absolutely welcome.
Who are our workshops NOT for? (must read)
Neurodivergent Friends workshops are not for anyone seeking unpaid emotional labour from our community.
Additionally, they are not a place for you to carry out research, arrange consultations or solicit feedback or gather information for your own agenda.
Finally, they are not for anyone being paid to attend on behalf of an organisation.
If you have a feeling that this might be you, please send us an email at info@ndft.org.uk and we’ll do our best to assist you appropriately.
The only non-Neurodivergent people welcome at this event are support-people/caregivers and potentially venue staff.
Only adults who are 18 years old or older can attend our events. Even if accompanied by a parent or guardian, we cannot allow under-18s to attend. This policy is in place to ensure the safeguarding, safety and well-being of everyone involved, including yours.
Welcome Pack & Code of Conduct
We ask all participants of our Creative Connection Club to read, agree and comply with our code of conduct, therefore ensuring the safety of everyone involved as well as their own.
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Access and Transportation
Travelling by Public Transport
Bus Stop ‘Baptist Church’ with buses 8A breeze; 8X breeze; 9X; 69; 946; Loop.
Travelling by Car
Carparks (charges apply), from closest to furthest to venue:
Crofts Place; Albion Street; Chandos Square; Broadstairs Station (train station).
Free street parking:
All street parking spaces labelled as “pay and display” are free after 6pm across Thanet. High street; Pierremonth Avenue; York Avenue; York Street; Belvedere Road; The Vale.
See our venue’s visual story below for visual information about access and transportation.
Venue’s Visual Story
Our visual story is a handy document that shows you what to expect about the venue and where things are. Read it before you come, we hope it helps you enjoy our Creative Connection Club even more!
We are currently working on updating our visual story for this session, please stay tuned!
Is Booking Required?
We recommend booking in advance because we limit the number of tickets available to book for safeguarding reasons. Therefore, once maximum capacity is reached, we won’t be able to let anyone else in.
You don’t have to book a ticket to come, however, it’s the only way to absolutely guarantee your place for the Creative Connection Club.
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