Creativity isn’t just something you do.
It’s who you already are.
Creativity matters. In life and in business too.
It's the thing that reconnects you to yourself, and it reminds you what your shoulders feel like when they're not up near your ears. Whether that's making something with your hands or just being in a room with other people who need the same thing.
And it's the same thing that lets a business stop performing and start connecting with other people. When you stop separating yourself from what you make, people don't just buy the thing, they buy their way into your world.
Two different doors. The same belief behind both of them.
What brings you here?
For curious minds and humans needing a break
Creative Connection
Local craft sessions, live online makes, and screen-free social evenings. Making things with your hands, with no expensive kit and no pressure to be ‘good’ at anything Just lovely people and the uncomplicated pleasure of doing something real. Sessions are inclusive and everyone is welcome.
For makers, artists and creators who ARE their business
Creative Business
You ARE your business. No compromises. Undiluted you-ness. Enjoy thirty years of design experience, pointed at the most personal brief there is: making your business look, sound and feel exactly like you — undiluted, unmistakable and inescapable (in all the best ways!)
Hi, I’m Lucy. And for 30 years, I've believed the same thing. Creativity isn't a luxury for when the ‘real’ work is done. It's how we do our best work, build the best businesses, and live our best lives.
Some days that means helping a professional creative close the gap between the standard of thing they make, and the perception other people have when they see it. Other days it means creating a room where people can put their phones down, make something with their hands, and just be present.
Different doors. Same belief. Welcome to all of it.
Lucy Kirkman
What’s going on?
In the creative community
Local sessions • £10
Meet & Make
Local craft sessions in Shipston on Stour, Moreton in Marsh, Stratford upon Avon, Lighthorne and Kenilworth. Relaxed & welcoming.
Online session • £5
One Big Make
Our online event where everybody makes the same thing at the same time, using supplies you already have at home - no kit to buy!
For creative businesses
Createhood PRO
Highly experienced, deeply creative, one-to-one identity design for makers and creators who ARE their business and feel ready to go from '“I love what I do” to knowing how to entice other people into their world.
Full attention. No templates, no compromises.
FAQs
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The Createhood is a creative community and a brand identity practice, run by Lucy Kirkman in Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire.
The creative community offers local and online sessions for crafters of all abilities to enjoy the many personal, emotional, mental and health benefits of creativity, and meet other lovely people.
For people who are their business, Createhood PRO supports makers, artists and creative business owners with highly experienced, branding and design identity work.
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Yes, they're two expressions of the same belief, run by the same person.
Meet & Make and One Big Make sessions are about reconnecting people with creativity through their hands, alongside other lovely people.
Createhood PRO is about helping makers and creators build a business identity that connects them with their customers by bringing them into their world.
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The Createhood is based in Shipston-on-Stour, South Warwickshire, in the North Cotswolds. In-person community sessions serve Stratford-upon-Avon, Moreton-in-Marsh, Lighthorne, Kenilworth, Banbury, Chipping Norton, Chipping Campden and the wider Cotswolds. Createhood PRO is delivered both locally and remotely, so makers anywhere in the UK can work with Lucy directly.
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You’ll always be working directly with Lucy Kirkman. Every session and every PRO project is delivered personally by her – no handing off to a junior designer or templated automations.
Lucy is a graphic designer and creative facilitator with 30 years of experience. She's the founder of The Createhood (a trading name of RMG Creative Limited). Her background spans magazine publishing, local authority, healthcare, charities and independent businesses, and she now specialises in identity work for makers, artists and creative business owners who ARE their business.
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Yes, and plenty of people do. Come make something with your hands on a Wednesday evening, and when you're ready to bring that same honesty into your business, PRO will be there to support you.