Recently I was asked to write an article about Colour Our Story by the lovely Catherine Watson for her free downloadable Unika Magazine.In Catherine’s words:“Small businesses need all the support they can get so I started a magazine to show my support and help my clients and other business owners in my networks to gain...

We are beyond excited to share our latest event which took place just before the Covid-19 stay at home guidance was issued. Colour Our Story were invited by Kea Kids News to share our story with the awesome children of Glen Innes Primary School in Auckland, New Zealand.

I loved the special opportunity I had to visit the Cockle Bay Primary School in Auckland and present Colour Our Story to the students there! It was especially delightful to see my special young friend Lexi proudly showing all her school friends her and her sister's drawings and stories that were included in the very...

“We decide to partner with Colour Our Story as a tool to hear from the children. We wanted to give them a voice and learn more about what they loved about Haiti. We also wanted to build their self-esteem by helping them to create something they could be proud of.”We love collaborating with charities, organisations...

A Colour Our Story drawing event was held at the remote OrphFund childrens’ home in Tombo, Sierra Leone (just outside of Freetown) thanks to Osman Turay - a very special, local carer for the kids there. We were put in touch via Facebook and I simply explained the concept to him. He fully loved and...

It was yet another ‘meant to be’ moment - coming to the South Island to housesit for a few weeks and then meeting this amazing primary school teacher and new friend Paula Cross. Not long after sharing the story behind Colour Our Story, she was keen to get the kids at the school involved. After...

Once back in her hometown of Prague Jana asked the children in her class at Smarties School what it was they wanted to share with other young creatives around the world, particularly those on the west coast of Sumbawa, Indonesia where she volunteered with @fairnomad. Jana’s classroom enthusiastically got to work on their own creations...

The beautiful Jana Račáková and I met and became instant friends and kindred spirits whilst exploring the wonders of Bali two years ago and as soon as I told her about Colour Our Story she seemed to instantly fall in love with the idea and couldn't wait to join our global village and get involved!

I was overwhelmed with emotion reconnecting with all the beautiful Kasese children I had got to know on a previous trip and I couldn't wait to deliver all the Colour Our Story books along with the very special pencil cases from Pencils Community. And it was beyond anything I could have hoped for!

Sure, they had coloured in their fair share of colouring books but knowing that their own outline drawings with short stories were going into colouring books destined for OrphFund children in remote Kasese, Uganda to colour in was enough to get their imaginations buzzing as they thought about what they wanted to share with others on...