About
About Us
Moogie Wonderland is a Cornwall-based community arts organisation working across participatory arts delivery and strategic consultancy for arts, heritage, and community-led projects.
We believe that anyone can illuminate their world by discovering their own brilliance.
We want to enable people to make personal and creative breakthroughs that can shape their lives and the world around them, by creating environments for artistic exploration.
Our Work
Our work takes many forms, including community-based arts programmes, creative STEM activity, live events, and consultancy support for organisations developing and delivering public-facing work.
Across our programme delivery, we have worked with children, young people, adults, and neurodivergent participants, creating inclusive spaces for learning, experimentation, and collaboration. Live art and electronic music have often been central to this work, providing tools for exploration, systems thinking, and creative confidence.
Alongside delivery, we provide consultancy support to arts, heritage, and community-led organisations. This work draws directly on our experience of designing, funding, managing, delivering, and evaluating our own programmes, as well as supporting others to do the same.
Practice-Led and Reflective
Our approach is practice-led and reflective. We develop ideas through delivery, learn from what happens, and use that learning to refine future work.
This dual perspective — combining long-term programme delivery with consultancy — allows us to offer advice that is grounded in the realities of working with communities, partners, funders, and limited resources.
Developing Sector-Relevant Creative Methods
Across our programme work, we have developed and tested original, practice-led approaches that apply electronic music techniques and systems thinking to learning contexts beyond music, through direct work across multiple non-arts sectors.
We believe we are the first known organisation globally to explicitly apply core electronic music techniques — including signal flow, modulation, sequencing, feedback, and systems control — unchanged in principle but applied in different contexts, as transferable learning models developed through work across sectors including space, marine, renewables, and critical minerals.
In each case, the underlying techniques remain the same; what changes is the application context. This enables participants to use electronic music systems as practical models for understanding complex real-world systems.
These approaches were developed through delivery, iteration, and reflection, and shaped to align with sector needs as well as government, regional, and local strategies relating to skills, innovation, sustainability, and future technologies.
Meaningful Impact & Learning
We treat projects as opportunities for learning and development, not just delivery.
Through developing and delivering programmes over many years, we have built a strong track record in:
• designing inclusive, adaptable participatory activity
• creating environments where people feel safe to experiment and take creative risks
• translating complex or unfamiliar ideas into accessible experiences
• balancing artistic ambition with access, safeguarding, and delivery realities
• evaluating work honestly and using learning to improve future practice
This reflective approach ensures our work is not only engaging in the moment, but useful over time — for participants, partners, and funders.
Our long engagement with participatory arts and creative technology informs this work in both programme delivery and organisational support.
Background & Experience
Our work is informed by two decades of experience developing, funding, delivering, and evaluating arts and community-led projects, alongside formal training in fundraising and programme development.
Moogie Wonderland’s consultancy and programme work is led by Matt Ashdown, who holds a Fine Art degree from the University for the Creative Arts and a Postgraduate Certificate in Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy from the University of Leeds, and has attended the National Arts Fundraising School.
Alongside leading projects and consultancy, Matt has supported and mentored people working in fundraising roles, and regularly works in collaboration with artists, producers, partner organisations, and communities. This collaborative way of working shapes a practice that is grounded, reflective, and responsive to different contexts.
Working With Us
We continue to develop and deliver our own programmes, while also offering consultancy support to organisations at different stages of project and programme development.
Programme activity and consultancy work are closely connected, but they are engaged with in different ways. Programme work is developed and delivered directly by Moogie Wonderland, while consultancy supports other organisations to shape, fund, deliver, and learn from their own work.
If you’d like to know more about our work, or explore whether we might be a good fit, please get in touch at
matt@moogiewonderland.co.uk