Discover Arts Award where you live and work
The award is open to everyone across the UK looking to recognise young people’s creative development
Arts Award is available in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and costs for training and moderation are the same across the UK.
If you are looking to get started with Arts Award, adviser training is widely available across England and we plan to introduce courses in Scotland during 2012, with dates in Northern Ireland and Wales to follow shortly afterwards.
If you are based within the UK, it is possible to book a place at any available training course, or to arrange for a trainer to come into your organisation.
You can also access support and advice via the Arts Award helpdesk whether your questions are about running Arts Award, training as an adviser, moderation, marketing, national partnerships or doing your Arts Award if you're a young person.
Regional development
Arts Council England is funding a network of ten Bridge organisations who will use their experience and expertise to build on good practice and to broker experiences for children and young people to connect with arts and cultural opportunities. One of the key areas of their work will be the regional development of Arts Award. Each Bridge organisation will be creating their own regional offer which will be posted on their websites in due course. Please note that support from Arts Award regional teams has now ended so please contact Trinity for all support around running Arts Award.
The ten Bridge organisations are:
- East: Norfolk and Norwich Festival
- East: Royal Opera House
- East Midlands: The Mighty Creatives (TMC)
- London: A New Direction working with four associate Bridge organisations:
Sadler’s Wells, Roundhouse, Apples and Snakes, Lyric Hammersmith
- North East: The Sage Gateshead
- North West: Curious Minds
- South East: Artswork
- South West: RIO (Real Ideas Organisation)
- West Midlands: Arts Connect
- Yorkshire: Cape UK
Details of ways that the various Bridge organisations will work within their regions will follow.
Centres outside of the UK
Arts Award is also available to young people outside of the UK, providing that they are either within the UK education system (for example British Forces schools), or working on a project with a UK-based centre, that can host a moderation.
If you are working with young people outside of the UK in this way and are interested in running Arts Award, please contact the Arts Award helpdesk for more information.
