Arts Award

• Life skills- through completing an Arts Award young people develop key transferable skills such as increased confidence, leadership and organisational skills.

• Accreditation- Arts Award is a respected and universal qualification.
• Arts Choices- Arts Award encourages young people to explore a range of art forms and ideas.
• Entrepreneurial skills- Arts Award encourages independent learning, communication and networking skills.
• Creativity for life- Arts Award provides a window into the cultural sector helping children and young people to develop an understanding of future employment possibilities in the creative industries.

By completing an Arts Award programme young people are given the opportunity to:

• Reflect on and shape their learning.
• Develop their leadership and peer mentoring skills.
• Work collaboratively.
• Undertake personalised and independent learning.
• Apply their learning.
• Gain accreditation.
• Develop an understanding of portfolio assessment.
• Research and explore diverse sources.
• Learn outside the classroom.
• Develop non-art skills.

We offer a range of support to professionals who work with young people – we can give you more information on Arts Award and how you can become an Adviser or we can help you develop your offer if you are already trained.

We also offer financial support to schools and organisations who are interested in starting Arts Award in their settings or progressing beyond offering one level of Arts Award.

Arts Award advisers are key to the success of Arts Award. An Adviser is a trained adult who supports young people in gaining arts experiences, provides guidance and assesses arts logs and portfolios. Teachers, teaching assistants, museum learning staff, art practitioners, youth workers and volunteers can all train as advisers. For more information about Arts Award training click here.

Your education, arts or cultural setting can become an Arts Award centre for young people to use as a base to complete their award. To become a centre you will need at least one trained Arts Award adviser. Becoming an Arts Award centre is a great way to-

• Strengthen links with young people, schools, arts practitioners and youth groups.
• Gives cause for partnership working.
• Build and promote your offer arts and cultural to young people.
• Kick-starts and enriches new arts programmes.
• Develop your existing work with young people through the Arts Award framework.

To find out more about becoming an Arts Award centre click here.

The Arts Award Ignition Fund aims to support young people facing barriers to engagement with arts and cultural opportunities; we want to enable young people to access high quality creative and cultural experiences while achieving Bronze Arts Award accreditation. Through our Ignition Fund we will support to schools and education settings in the West Midlands to embed Bronze Arts Award framework within creative programmes to enhance opportunities for young people’s creative and cultural development.

As part of our Arts Award Ignition Fund we offer Arts Award training for up to two members of staff and a contribution of between £400 and £750 to support Bronze Arts Award programmes. We also provide support from Arts Award experts to ensure that programmes are successfully planned, delivered and completed.

Full details of the Ignition fund can be found here.

Apply for the Ignition fund here.