TWENTY-FIVE young people have been pulling strings at an arts workshop.

The young people are working with Fullbeam Visual Theatre, a professional puppetry theatre company from Bristol, to make their own puppet characters.

The characters will star in a play that the puppeteers are writing and performing to friends and family at the end of the week at the University of Bath Oakfield campus in Marlowe Avenue, Swindon.

The theme of the week is time travel' and they have been making large-scale puppets, props and scenery, as well as practising lip-synching and improvisation.

The week at the Oakfield campus gives the young people the opportunity to try new activities in an informal way.

A spokeswoman said: "They are also able to find out about life at university from undergraduate students who help at the workshops."

The events are organised by the University's Broadening Participation Team and priority for places is given to young people from families with little or no experience of university.

This is the fourth year of creative art weeks at the Oakfield campus. In May the university ran its first creative arts and advice week for adult carers.