We are very excited to be starting the second round of our 3-way poetry project at Axe Valley Academy this week. Led by the incredible Louisa Adjoa Parker, this group of Year 8 and 9 revolutionaries are planning on changing the world with their words. These poems are a call to arms for the next generation.

We had a brilliant morning working with Hazel class at St Catherine’s Primary School in Bridport. This talented group of Year 4s and 5s took us on an extraordinary journey and created a sci-fi classic, that was as fantastic as it was unexpected. In their epic tale, we met Sherek, a bald alien who was terrified of water. All would be well in Sherek’s world, if it weren’t for the schemes of Mr and Mrs Bibi, the evil bananas!

Get ready for a performance like no other. Sunday, 7pm sees the culmination of our amazing Resonate project. Last weekend, award winning performance poet, Joelle Taylor, kicked off our 4 weekend workshops for the project and we were blown away by the talented young writers who took part! They all have brave and unique stories to tell.

Monday saw a wonderful launch event celebrating the publication of 'Stories from the Valley', an anthology of fantastic fiction penned by some very talented students from Axe Valley Academy in Axminster.

We had a great time working with Cogden Class at Powerstock Primary School last week! The amazingly talented writers from Year 3 and 4 used their imaginations and their logical, problem solving abilities to help our Bank Manager escape from a locked underground Vault!

They were so good at solving that problem, that we employed them to help us write a survival guide for all sorts of other problems as well!

An amazing group of young musicians from B# Lyme Hub are out to change the world! We had a great time this week working with them to turn their song lyrics highlighting the climate emergency into manifestos for change.

Those brave journalists from The Vault, our weekly after-school news crew, got a taste for the weird this week, when we visited Bridport Museum to investigate ‘Gladys’ a haunted dress! Seriously.

The creative students from Mountjoy have been hard at work filming their product assessments for The MASH Reviews - a YouTube review channel giving honest opinions on popular products. Their channel will review games, gadgets and gizmos so that young people can make informed decisions about where to spend their money.

We had an amazing time working with three schools at No.10 Downing Street on Friday. The workshop was part of No.10s ‘Lessons at 10’ program instigated by Mrs Akshata Murty, the Prime Minister’s wife. The young writers were absolutely incredible and wrote brilliant ‘How to…’s to make current and future Prime Minister’s lives easier.

Get ready, because a group of young poets from Sir John Colfox School, in Bridport are planning to change the world with their words. Our new poetry project got off the ground this week as a group of Year 9 wordsmiths, led by ‘stand-up poet and sustainable nihilist’, Jonny Fluffypunk,

Working with the young authors at Beaminster School has been a lot of fun and the latest in our series of short story anthologies is nearly complete. We’ve spent the last eleven weeks investigating characters, settings, folklore, mythology and changing nature, and the stories these amazing writers have produced will blow your minds - seriously!

The young people at Mountjoy are becoming YouTube influencers! We had a great time on Thursday, working with the students as they began unboxing and reviewing their first batch of products.

We had a great time working with some young writers from the Bridport Youth Community Centre’s Summer Club on creating their own podcasts.

The Bank took to the fields last week, where we had a brilliant time meeting people at the Melplash Show. It was great to be part of such a wonderful day with such a great atmosphere.

Are you a budding writer? Do you have an idea for a short story? Would you like to see your work in print? If you are aged between 7 and 14 then we would love to print your story in our quarterly newspaper “What’s Going On?”

What a week! We have loved working with the absurdly talented songwriters who came to our songwriting sessions. They crafted a suite of very catchy pop songs (we still have them stuck in our heads) and performed them at the end of the week to a supportive and highly appreciative audience.

The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares travelled to Edinburgh last week to meet up with other young people’s writing charities from around the globe. There were representative from Austria to Australia, Manchester to Milan and New York to Rotherham.

We had a brilliant time working with some very talented writers at Greenford Primary School in Maiden Newton this week. The KS2 writers wove a heartbreaking tale of broken friendship and confusion.

Those amazing writers from Burton Bradstock Primary have done it again with not one but two incredible tales. The first , from Owl class, featured the adventures of Steve, a gymnastically gifted flying squirrel.