Children’s Story Telling Workshops with Clare Helen Welsh

Join us this Summer to take part in creative storytelling workshops with Clare Helen Welsh in the beautiful setting of Torre Abbey’s Spanish Barn. The sessions will include storytelling and other creative activities. There will be refreshments available in our café and each ticket includes one free entry to Torre Abbey house and gardens where our wonderful Paddington, the story of a bear, exhibition awaits.

Clare is a former primary school teacher turned writing tutor and children’s author, living in South West England with her husband and two children. Clare does her best writing by the sea (or on the sofa with a dog on her lap!), which is lucky because she lives close to many beautiful beaches and the salty sea air (and has a dog called Hope!)

When Clare isn’t writing stories, she is inspiring children to write their own. She loves visiting schools, libraries, bookshops and festivals in her author mobile, giving her an outlet for her BIG ideas. Once she helped a class make a giant rice crispy cake that was so wide it wouldn’t fit through the door!

Age:                           Suitable for ages 2 – 6

Timing:                       10:30 – 11:30 & 12:30 – 13:30

Ticket price:               £7 (£5 for 1196 members)

Available tickets:      20 per session

Price: £7 per child (£5.00 1196) with at least one adult attending throughout. Price includes entry to Torre Abbey house and Gardens to visit the Paddington: The Story of a Bear Exhibition (on loan from the British Library) for one adult per child’s ticket.

Additional tickets cost £10.50 per person. 

Clare is the founder of Books That Help – an initiative that aims to celebrate picture books and how they can be used therapeutically to navigate life’s up and downs..

CLIENTS INCLUDE:

Andersen Press, Harper Collins, Ladybird, Little Tiger Press, Nosy Crow, Maverick Books, Pan Macmillan, Storyhouse Publishing, Quarto Ltd.

AWARDS INCLUDE:

‘Slime? It’s Not Mine!’ – (Nicola O’Byrne, Macmillan, 2022) – winner of the Write Blend Book Awards 2023, winner of Books For Topics’ Book of the Year (KS1 Best Curriculum Support 2022)

‘How Messy!’ (Olivier Tallec, Quarto 2022) – shortlisted for the Write Blend Book Awards 2023

‘Wee? It Wasn’t Me!‘ (Nicola O’Byrne, Macmillan, 2021) – winner of the LOLLIES Picture Book Award 2023

‘Poo! Is That You?’ (Nicola O’Byrne, Macmillan, 2020) – shortlisted for The North Gate Book Awards 2022 

‘Sunshine At Bedtime’ (Sally Sowoel Han, Storyhouse Book, 2022) Finalist in the Teach Primary Awards 2002.

‘The Tide’ (Ashling Lindsay, Little Tiger Press, 2019) – winner of The North Somerset Teacher’s Book Award 2019, winner of SCBWI-BI Crystal Kite Award 2020, Honour Award for Illustration at The Children’s Book Awards, Ireland 2020.

‘The Perfect Shelter’ (Asa Gilland,  Little Tiger 2020) – shortlisted for the InstaBookGrammies 2020.