Always on
This project successfully funded on 1st April 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
See Me Play Winter Art Fundraiser
Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
Aim
The purpose of this fundraiser is to support See Me Play's programme to keep going. You can donate money or buy an artwork (see 'rewards')!
See Me Play are launching our Winter Art Fundraiser!
See Me Play is playscheme for neurodivergent and disabled children, young people (CYP), and their carers/families. See Me Play is a grassroots charity founded from lived experience, based in Margate.
Our first round of crowdfunding, almost two years ago (!!), meant that with the support of our community we could get See Me Play off the ground.
We have been able to provide much needed space for freedom, joy and autonomy in play to neurodivergent and disabled children and young people in our community. These sorts of spaces, that truly honour ND play and ways of being, are all too rare.
See Me Play has grown, and now hold regular play sessions at Garden Gate Project community gardens and at a local church hall and garden. We have also secured Lottery funding to pay our team and playworkers.
We have big dreams for See Me Play, and in the next 6 months we are hoping to not only continue but expand our offer in order to meet the needs of our community.
However we are a small neurodivergent team and it is a long windy road to secure funding into the future. So, we need your help to keep going.
We are launching this WINTER ART FUNDRAISER, with a selection of incredible works from neurodivergent, disabled and allied artists on offer.
Have a look below and at our rewards section to see what you can cop, donations are also very welcome. Keep your eyes peeled for further weekly drops of arts based rewards. THANK YOU! See Me Play 🎈
We will hand deliver locally if possible, but if you need shipping please donate an extra £3-5 to our crowdfunder. Any further queries please email [email protected] or DM instagram @seeme.play.
Parent/carer testimonials:
“A space where judgment disappears and play is of utmost importance. The freedom to be a child, to explore, to experience, to feel. Being accepted for who they are and letting the children create magic in every moment without any pressure to change. A place where children can be themselves at any given moment, in whatever way that is.”
“We love coming and are so grateful to have a space for O to be himself and for me to be with other people who understand the journey and the fight. Both him and I are seen at See Me Play and would be lost without you guys now!”
“ ... sensed the welcoming atmosphere the moment he raced through the gates. My shoulders instantly softened and relaxed…as I remembered I was in a space that didn’t need my apologies or explanation for my child just being himself!... It felt so free…my son felt the same. The volunteers are incredible - kind, knowledgable and calm!”
ARTWORKS FOR SALE! SEE REWARDS SECTION TO PURCHASE AND FOR MORE INFO ON EACH ARTIST AND ARTWORK…
See Me Play x SOS hoodies. Various designs and colours:
Latex print on one size (XL) hoodies. £85 or more
These are one-of-kind hoodies, with hand printed artworks made by See Me Play children and young people with artist and fashion designer Samara Scott aka @sos.skyn (www.sosskyn.com) in the polytunnel at Garden Gate Project, Margate, for this fundraiser.
See the name under each hoody below, then select the same in the ‘Rewards’ section to buy the hoody you would like.
There will be two further drops of hoodies once these have gone. Each design is hand-made and different. Hand-washing is recommended. Modelled by See Me Playworkers Big Asha (above) and Zelda (below).
See Me Play x SOS hoodies - Navy blue big print hoody
Latex print on one size (XL) hoodies. £85 or more
See Me Play x SOS hoodies - Green double print hoody
Latex print on one size (XL) hoodies. £85 or more
See Me Play x SOS hoodies - Yellow overlap print hoody
Latex print on one size (XL) hoodies. Sliding scale £85 or more
See Me Play x SOS hoodies - Pink side and sleeve print hoody
Latex print on one size (XL) hoodies. £85 or more
Lindsey Mendick - "SNOG" (pink)
Ceramic £200
I.W. Payne - 15 minutes of fame in a shuttlecock, 2024
Collage, coloured pencil, posca A3 - £150
Ben Gomes - Untitled, 2023
Colour pen on paper, 15 x 21cm - £150
Arthur Marie - Twilight, 2024
Watercolour on paper, 21x29,7 - £420
Racheal Crowther - Untitled, 2021
CMYK print, 42 x 59cm approx - £200
Lizzy Deacon - Never Say Never Again
photograph 21x29.7cm - £60
Emma Guareschi - Cities in Dust, 2019
Monoprint, Oil on paper, 25x35 cm - £60
Middleton Maddocks - playtime
Drawing on paper 73x51cm - £50
Sahaya James - iced dust knuckle, A2, inkjet print on premium satin card
A4 prints
Mina Healy - left to right
Untitled - 2 layer print by Mina Healy
2 layer screenprint, 70.5 x 48cm £50
Untitled - 3 layer print by Mina Healy
3 layer screenprint 68.5 x 49.5 cm £60
Untitled - 4 layer print by Mina Healy
4 layer screenprint 70.5 x 48.5 cm £70
Zelda Solomon -"enough hands"
A4 risograph, 8 prints available, - £20/each
Alice Davies - Sticks (See Me Play)
Pack of greetings cards with envelopes, printed from oil/acrylic painting - £15/each pack of 5
Max Alexander of Play Radical - Zines and artwork bundle
A bundle of silly and playful zines and artwork from Max Alexander of Play Radical - £20 for the bundle of 6
Samuel Vilanova
Ceramic, 15x10x2.5cm - £60
Make a risograph print of your choosing
with George Harding (Well Projects/Park Press) - £100
See Me Play - Tote bag
Cotton canvas tote designed by See Me Play CYP - £7 or more
Tristian Garridon - left to right
Singular square blue print
6 print available, £15/each
.Ode to Basquiat
A3 print, 8 prints available, £30/each or pay what you can and email
Eye Skull
A3 print, 8 prints available, £30/each or pay what you can and email
Can I touch your hair?
A3 print, 6 prints available, £30/each or pay what you can and email
Holly Hunter - A4 digital print on cartridge. 5 available of each. £15
top (with yellow writing) - print 1
bottom (with blue flowers) - print 2
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made