Home / Donate / PaintPot

The PaintPot

Keep creativity within reach for every child

The Paint Pot funds the materials children use in EdShift sessions. Your donation helps keep these materials ready for Art Therapy, group work, youth club activities, and creative support at The YouthBase.

Purple icon

Help us raise £200 every month

EdShift needs £200 a month to replenish essential art materials without drawing on funding for core support programmes.

£200 a month helps children continue to paint, build, make, and take part.

EdShift Values Icons 16

Why the Paint Pot Matters

For many children affected by domestic abuse, talking directly about what has happened can feel too painful, confusing, or overwhelming. Art materials offer another way to communicate through colour, texture, movement, making, and play.

The Paint Pot keeps those materials available whenever a child needs them.

EdShift Values Icons 15

Art is Not Extra

At EdShift, art materials are part of the support. They are used in Art Therapy, group work, youth club activities, and creative sessions with children and young people.

A paintbrush, piece of paper, or box of materials can help a child make choices, try something new, regulate difficult feelings, and feel more in control.

What your donation could provide

Every gift helps keep materials stocked.

£10

could provide paints for a child’s session.

£20

could stock a week of art materials.

£50

could fill a Paint Pot shelf with supplies.

£100

could resource a therapeutic group programme.

£200

could help keep The Paint Pot stocked for a month.

What your donation makes possible

Your donation can help children:

Keeping Creativity in Circulation

The Paint Pot is also part of EdShift’s commitment to sustainability. If we build a surplus of materials, we will share excess supplies with local arts and community organisations, reducing waste and keeping materials in use.

How to support The Paint Pot

Give Monthly

Help keep arts materials stocked every month.

Give a One-Off Donation

Replenish paints, paper, brushes, glue, cardboard, collage, and sensory resources.

Fundraise for The Paint Pot

Host a creative fundraiser, art challenge, craft sale, or your own idea.

The Paint Pot 05

Keep the Paint Pot Full

Your donation keeps art materials ready for the children using EdShift’s sessions, groups, and youth club activities.