"parade"
Live sketch by Rachel Faulkner, made at Cocoon in October 2025 insta @thelivesketcher
This sketch:
M – two years old, non-speaking, leads the parade — ukulele in hand. Kate plays flute behind him; his mammy Megan, Cocoon’s movement artist, follows at the back. Two adults playing the exact same way as M — stopping when he stops, starting when he starts. This is the whole of Cocoon in one moment.
youth music energiser
Proud doesn’t cover it. 
Cocoon is one of 11 organisations in the @youthmusicuk Energiser Learning Community (2024–2027) — celebrating the messy, unexpected magic of making music with 2–4 year-olds and their grown-ups.
Hands-down the best-funded work I’ve ever done, alongside people who genuinely care about all of it. 
Big thanks to @ace_national for making this fund possible.
cocoon promo vid
The above video is a promo, which gives a good flavour of our pilot work at Cocoon. We are currently working with two families to test our new space as part of Youth Music’s Energiser Fund. We are prioritising experience over public documentation and sharing, as it is all very new.
We document everything we do via notes, photos, voice notes, messages, reflective practice meetings. It’s an embedded part of our practice to think deeply and reflect on all we do with our families. If you are a funder and would like to know more, we can share current work-in-progress via a secure video call. We are not currently publishing pilot experiences out of respect for our families’ privacy.
community backing
Our work has strong community backing.
We completed a successful crowdfunded and raised over £10,000.
We got 100 backers.
See our campaign total here
Proudly supported by……
HELIX ARTS.
