Ann Fomukong-Boden has been chosen by the British Science Association (BSA) to become one of their new Community Leaders. Ann is a STEM Ambassador, electronic engineer and Director of Chesterfield-based Kakou Technologies. Since 1994, [...]
Kakou CIC is pleased to publish its Annual Review for 2017-18. Some of Kakou’s highlights from 2017-18 have included: We were invited to provide inclusive creative art workshops at the Connect 5 – Health [...]
Our plastic whale sculpture has now been installed at Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery. Accompanying the whale is also a set of informative posters and TV presentation all about [...]
On Tuesday 12th June, we had the pleasure of facilitating a whole school science day at Arkwright Primary School in Chesterfield. Our subject for the day was Space. The children aged 5 to [...]
Rother Active Youth are a community group set up to provide extra-curricular activities for children based in the Rother area (Grangewood, Brampton, Boythorpe and Birdholme) of Chesterfield. After our successful electronic card making [...]
It doesn’t matter if you love metal, pop or EDM (electronic dance music - for those who were wondering...), music can help your mood and help you cope with (or even take control [...]
An interesting infographic looking at how music affects the human brain.
Earth Day is an event celebrated every year on the 22nd of April. It’s an important day for people all over the world. It is a day when we celebrate our planet Earth [...]
Our next Plastic Sculpture workshop is this Saturday afternoon (21st April) from 1pm to 3pm at the The Pavements Shopping Centre, Chesterfield. Come along and help us create an amazing whale sculpture that [...]
More and more consumers are making their purchases based on their moral values and how they want to contribute to the world. When we think of Fairtrade, we think about workers being paid [...]
British Science Week runs from Friday 9th March to Sunday 18th March, and as always we have organised a few events. This year's Citizen Science project is based on the Plastic Tide and [...]
At the start of 2018, we moved into our new home. Officially the first tenants of the newly renovated Innovation Hub at the University of Derby St. Helena Campus [...]
Every third Saturday of the month between 2pm and 4pm, Monkey Park CIC run a free technology club open to children between 7 to 13 years of age. Run by volunteers with technical [...]
On the 11th July 2017, our STEM Ambassador Ann ran a People Like Me workshop for local Year 7 girls at Trafford College in Manchester. 30 girls attended from Broadoak School, Manchester Creative and [...]
Kakou are pleased to announce that we have recently started working on a project with the University College London Institute of Education (UCL IoE) and the Royal Academy of London. As part of [...]
Yesterday we proudly attended the book launch of Insights in Sound: Visually Impaired Musicians' Lives and Learning - a book written by Dr. David Baker and Prof. Lucy Green of the UCL Institute of [...]
On Friday 10th March 2017, Brampton Brewery held one of their regular brewery tours, but with a small change. To mark British Science Week, Head Brewer Chris Radford, incorporated an additional section to [...]
Sir John Barbirolli, was born in Holborn, London in 1899, a stone's throw away from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where he studied as a cellist. He is remembered above all as [...]
British Science week this year ran from 11th to 20th March. British Science Week is a ten-day programme of science, technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the [...]
Way back in March 2015, we attended a Taster session in Leeds hosted by the School for Social Entrepreneurs about their Lloyds Bank programme which is a free 14-day course offering learning and mentoring about [...]
