Welcome to Bell House
Bell House is a volunteer-led charity in South London championing creative education and lifelong learning for all.
Upcoming Events
Discover our friendly creative arts workshops, short courses, talks and events.
A collaboration between Kirsten and Kenyan artist Dhahabu Ngambau Dadu, whose instinctive embroidery has evolved into expressive, uncontrived works rooted in Giriama heritage and local materials.
Free | In-person | Drop-ins
Join curator Kirsten Heckterman for a guided tour of A Thread Through Time.
Free | In-person | Register here
Learn the step-by-step method of linoprinting, a printmaking process used by artists such as Picasso and Matisse.
£50.60 | In-person | Book here
Join historian Duncan Bowie for a talk covering the people Dulwich sent to represent them in Parliament and other local politicians.
£5.60 | Online | Book here
A joint Bell House/D&D U3A workshop on accessibility information for older adults.
Free | In-person | Book here
Need a little help with your phone, tablet or computer? Our friendly Digital Champions are here to assist you.
Free | In-person | Drop ins
Children with dyslexia may learn differently from you. This course has been designed to help you understand how you can best support a child at home and at school.
£25.60 | In-person | Book here
Children with dyslexia may learn differently from you. This course has been designed to help you understand how you can best support a child at home and at school.
£125.60 | In-person | Book here
A session introducing the art of Japanese stab binding where you will make templates for three soft backed books.
£80.60 | In-person | Book here
Bell House is offering free, 1:1 appointments to parents and carers who would like to speak to a dyslexia specialist about their child's literacy difficulties.
Free | In-person | Book here
Fill a small sketchbook cover to cover, building a personal visual language for drawing the human face.
£40.60 | In-person | Book here
A hands-on, two-hour workshop where you design and build your own pop-up paper page — new theme, new mechanism every session.
£20.60 | In-person | Book here
Experience the Holtág Quartet performing rarely heard British chamber music spanning two centuries, exploring tradition, lyricism, folk influences and twentieth-century innovation.
£22.60 | In-person | Book here
Discover how to look at vocabulary differently so we can decode meaning independently and at the point of need.
Free | Online | Register here
Learn the step-by-step method of linoprinting, a printmaking process used by artists such as Picasso and Matisse.
£50.60 | In-person | Book here
In this immersive workshop you will use the power of plants to print directly onto fabric – no screens, just leaves, petals and the simple alchemy of heat and pressure.
£50.60 | In-person | Book here
Children with dyslexia may learn differently from you. This course has been designed to help you understand how you can best support a child at home and at school.
£25.60 | In-person | Book here
A workshop designed to introduce you to an alternative and decorative form of bookbinding known as crisscross binding.
£80.60 | In-person | Book here
Discover the traditional craft of chip carving in this introductory workshop where you will learn about the history of European folk carving while developing the fundamentals of chisel handling.
£48.60 | In-person | Book here
Discover how Renoir not only pioneered a revolutionary Impressionist technique that transformed modern art, but also how he produced images that responded to a changing city.
£8.60 | In-person | Book here
Seven (over eight) playful weeks of creative exploration in search of your voice, the stories you ache to tell, and structured insights into how to get the best out of your ideas.
£140.60 | In-person | Book here
Learn the step-by-step method of collograph printing, a process where you create your own printing plate by attaching various textures and cut-out shapes.
£40.60 | In-person | Book here
Join Village Books for an evening with Joanna Miller, author of the acclaimed novel The Eights.
£12 | In-person | Book here
Learn the step-by-step method of linoprinting, a printmaking process used by artists such as Picasso and Matisse.
£50.60 | In-person | Book here
Children with dyslexia may learn differently from you. This course has been designed to help you understand how you can best support a child at home and at school.
£25.60 | In-person | Book here
Learn the fundamentals of Coptic binding as used by Christians in Egypt (The Copts) as early as the 2nd century.
£80.60 | In-person | Book here
Discover the magic of cyanotype – one of the oldest and most beautiful photographic printing processes – and explore how colour can transform it beyond its classic blue.
£50.60 | In-person | Book here
Join local print-maker Alice Peake for this introductory workshop into the Japanese craft forms of Suminagashi.
£35.60 | In-person | Book here
Bell House is running a four day touch-typing course, designed especially for children with dyslexia in Year 5 and 6.
£150.60 | In-person | Book here
Join artist Sarah Wetherall for this short two-week course where you will learn the simple beautiful processes needed to make an illuminated letter.
£90.60 | In-person | Book here
A fun day of drama, games and art for neurodivergent young people aged 9 to 16. Somewhere safe and welcoming, shaped around them.
£75.60 | In-person | Register here
A relaxed painting session, exploring the rich colours and atmosphere of an autumnal landscape using water-based oil paints.
£95.60 | In-person | Book here
Upcoming Pottery Workshops
Courses, tasters and workshops for all levels of experience.
Volunteering at Bell House
Bell House is powered by its volunteers, who contribute their time and ideas. They are involved in all aspects of the charity, and is a great way to meet people from all walks of life, try something new and help out a great cause. Click here to find out more.