Welcome to the CHILLIE KIDS CLUB! Here’s a few things you might want to know about us and our kids upcycle clubs.

Lydia McNeill and Natalie Hartley have over 20 years experience in the fashion industry.  Natalie has worked at magazines ELLE, Sunday Times Style and Glamour and Lydia in retail and personal shopping.  They met because their kids became best friends on their first day of school and two weeks later they set up a business together.  Starting out selling vintage clothes, they opened their first shop on Portobello Road.  Their own kids have followed their journey and on the back of this sustainable education they thought it was important to teach their kids the value of not throwing their old clothes away and introduce them to up-cycling.  The Chillie Kids Club was created on the back of that.  ‘We wanted to teach kids about this, showing them in fun and creative ways, how to recycle their old clothes.’

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FAQ’S

What are the workshops for?

The workshops are designed to teach kids about sustainability, to not throw their clothes away.  We teach the kids skills like sewing and cutting fabrics to allow them to upcycle their old clothes and make them new again.

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What are the ages?

We start from the ages of 5 years and above

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Where are you based?

Our flagship space is based at Chillie London, 359 Portobello Road, London W10 5SA. We run all west London workshops from there and then also hire other external spaces in and around London for the other clubs to run from but these may vary and are not owned by THE CHILLIE KIDS CLUB.

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What do you use during the clubs to upcycle?  

We use second hand fabrics and a vintage haberdashery bar.  We also have irons, hot glue guns, needles, scissors and with permission from the parents the kids have access to these tools

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What do the kids need to bring to the clubs?

Old clothes for upcycling, food, snacks and water (no nuts)

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What do the kids wear to the camps?

Clothes that can get dirty or messy and warm clothes for breaks outside where permitted and with permission

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​Do you offer Sibling discount?

at the moment we don’t offer sibling discount and are not able to accept childcare vouchers

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What are the hours of the school holiday camps?

every locations runs a 6hr day from 9am-3pm

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Does it matter if we are late arriving?

We are kid led, no one misses anything we upcycle their own clothes nothing made is ever the same as someone else’s we run at their own pace.  Everyone will make at least one finished upcycled item per day but if you are there for more days we can tailor the projects to take more time and carry over.

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