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Creative Kids in Bournemouth

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4.7(37 parent reviews) ·Unit 5, Sovereign Centre, Bournemouth, BH1 4SX · Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole
Number of places
—
Age range
Up to 5 yrs
Last inspected
Oct 2025
Local authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole

About this day nursery

Creative Kids offers a dynamic arts education experience at its Bournemouth centre, aiming to foster imagination and confidence in young people. The centre provides a variety of creative and recreational activities, catering particularly to those with additional needs due to age, disability, or socioeconomic factors.

Programming is designed to maximise creative potential, improve social mobility, and provide access to the creative industries. With a focus on well-being, inclusion, self-expression, resilience, and community engagement, Creative Kids offers a supportive environment for children and young people to thrive.

The centre has recently refreshed its programs and grown partnerships, introducing new initiatives like a Media Centre for digital storytelling, Project 14–22 for young creatives to gain experience and mentoring, and a Youth Advisory Board to ensure youth voices shape the centre's direction. They also provide Drawing & Talking Therapies for creative well-being support and home education days.

Creative Kids is also a charity, committed to providing fully funded arts educational places for local children in need during school holidays, emphasizing their dedication to making quality arts education accessible to all. They also offer Arts Award qualifications.

Our ethos

Creative Kids aims to involve and inspire young people in BCP to engage with the arts and community. They provide creative and recreational activities, prioritising those with a particular need due to age, disability, or social and economic circumstances, thereby maximising their creative potential, social mobility, and access to the creative industries. The organisation focuses on providing safe spaces for young people to thrive and develop socially and artistically, with an emphasis on wellbeing, radical inclusion, self-expression, resilience, confidence, and community engagement.

Arts-focused programsCharitable organizationSupports disadvantaged youthHoliday clubsArts Award qualifications

Pricing & funding

Charges are structured per session for drop-in sessions and holiday clubs. A daily rate is also available for sponsoring a child's attendance, which includes meals.

Good to know

  • Sponsorship fee includes breakfast and a hot meal.

Key facts

Opening hours

8am to 6pm during school holidays; 9am to 7pm Saturdays

Age range

5-22

Parent Reviews of Creative Kids

4.7
(37)
sophie warren
a year ago

We really LOVE creative kids. My daughter has a great time at the holiday club, they have a lot of fun and the staff make everyone feel welcome. Such flexible times too, which makes me able to continue my job during school holidays. The art talking therapy has been so beneficial, such important work. All such a high standard. It's made an enormous difference and I can't recommend it enough. Very lucky to have creative kids in our community and I'm grateful for their hard work.

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Rachel Webster
10 months ago

My son attended Drawing and Talking Therapy for 12 weeks with Poppy at Creative Kids. He really enjoyed his sessions and it has helped him express his emotions better at home and at school. Thank you Poppy!

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Mayra V. Bucci M.
a year ago

My son (8yo) really enjoy this place and all their activities. I used to enroll him into holiday clubs at school nut he said no more, he preferred this place!

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Natalie Ford
a year ago

We've tried quite a few different kids holiday clubs over the years and this is my children's favourite. Great mix of creative activities with some local trips and cookery too this summer. Staff are friendly and helpful, kids were very happy there. They tried out pointillism painting, weaving, market techniques, circus skills, made pasta, made self portraits at the park, all sorts.

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J Avery
2 years ago

My son has been attending Creative Kids for quite a few years now and I just wanted to say thank you to all of the staff and Cary for putting on the amazing activities and most importantly making him feel so welcome. Cary helped my wife with HAF funding which I am forever thankful for. Cary really puts her heart and soul into Creative Kids and I'm always gobsmacked with the ingenuity of the activities, I look at the planner and wished I was there 🤣 My son had a great time with the musical sessions and creating his own comic book character. He didn't know any children when he started but has made friends with several children over the years. Reading a few of the nasty reviews I'm shocked and would like to point out that none of it is true. Creative Kids is very culturally accepting, their care for the kids always shines through and all staff are trained in all aspects. My wife and I have always felt very safe dropping my son off with the caring s and helpful staff. Creative Kids you are a true blessing and keep doing what you are doing, several of us parents really appreciate you and the support you have always given.

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Inspection history

Most recent inspection

5 August 2025

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