︎ THE HUNDRED CLUB ︎ THE HUNDRED CLUB


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The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues. Free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.

The club was initiated by Ruth Beale and is produced by TACO!

A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay and get involved. 

Upcoming sessions:  

- Building Neighbourhoods, Sat 27 Apr, 10.30-12.30, Waterways Children’s Centre, Southwood Rd, SE28 8EZFamilies are invited to join Nathalie Coste to create their own collaborative mini neighbourhood. Using printmaking, recycled material and collage, consider what you need to make a neighbourhood. Shops? Children's Centres? Flats? Become young architects for the morning as we think about how places are designed and made with The Hundred Club. No need to book.

- Risky Play & Belonging, Sat 4th May, 10-1, TACO!, 2 Cygnet Square, SE2 9FA
"You’re on the edge of a ravine filled with lava. You need to jump across. What are you thinking?”

5-12 year olds and their families are invited to join artist Ruth Beale to think about unstructured play and taking risks - from wobbly logs to swinging high - and how simple objects and structures can enable play. We will create new games, and draw fantastical play structures, inspired by Ruth’s publication Drawing Risky Play, made with children at a democratic school and an adventure playground.
We’ll also use the book Belonging by Jeannie Baker - a picture book for all ages about urban greening - thinking about our own neighbourhoods and who and what they are for. Book here. 



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The Hundred Club is an experimental creative space that uses arts and play for children to explore social justice issues.


The Hundred Club is free and open to 5-12 year olds and their siblings, parents and carers.


To register for your family’s place for our weekend & holiday sessions, please fill in this online form - or for more information please email Natasha - nb@taco.org.uk

The club meets monthly in and around Thamesmead, and for extended special workshops in the school holidays. A family club, we ask parents and carers to stay for the sessions and get involved.

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We also run a weekly drop-off afterschool club at The Moorings Sociable Club in Thamesmead.

We currently have spaces on term-time Wednesday’s for 9-12 year olds. 5-8 year olds are invited to join the waiting list. For places please click here.

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Members of the club contribute to our own kids-produced newspaper WAAAAH!, as well as taking part in other fun creative activities like designing and speaking to special guests. Children and families are involved in decision-making, and each term we ask the children what the important issues are for them.

Sessions are facilitated by experienced visual artists and designers. Through collaboration and hands-on activities members of the club  experiment and play through art and making, using these as an inspiration to imagine a more fair, just and equal society.

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The Hundred Club was initiated in 2021 by artist Ruth Beale and TACO! Ruth Beale is a London-based artist. Their work troubles the structures and systems that shape society, from institutions to social ties to the public realm. Committed to the radical possibilities of working collectively and collaboratively, they use dialogue and exchange to rethink the ways we share resources and ideas about the future. In 2012 they co-founded The Alternative School of Economics with Amy Feneck, which explores economic and political issues in relation to the complexity of lived experience.


Recent commissions include Drawing Risky Play with Turf Projects, Croydon, London and Library as Memorial with Brent Biennial, London. Recent exhibitions include LIKE GODS at Swiss Cottage Library Gallery, Editorial Tables: Reciprocal Hospitalities at The Showroom and a major new installation by The Alternative School of Economics in Economics the Blockbuster: It’s not Business as Usual, The Whitworth, Manchester.




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The Hundred Club Afterschool is made possible by The Peabody Community Fund. 

The Hundred Club is supported using funding from Royal Borough of Greenwich. 










Watch animations made by the club with Mary Martins here!







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TACO!
2 CYGNET SQUARE
THAMESMEAD 
LONDON
SE2 9FA


Open Thurs-Sun, 10:00-18:00



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Info@TACO.ORG.UK
tel: 020 3904 6637

REGISTERED CHARITY: 1196316