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*1)	Please describe your role within the youth service or give your job title

Your experience of running the Arts Award

2)	If you are already running the Arts Award, please tell us… Approximately how many young people are working at the following levels:

Bronze
Silver
Gold

3)	Which art forms are you offering:

Combined arts (e.g. carnival)	Dance
Literature	Music
Film	New media
Theatre/drama	Visual arts
other ( please specify)

4)	Has your group been moderated yet?

5)	If you answered yes to the previous question, please comment on the experience

6)	Please tell us about successes or achievements which the Arts Award programme enabled

7)	Please tell us about challenges you encountered in running Arts Award

8)	Do you plan to continue to run the Arts Award?

9)	If no, please tell us why

10)	If yes, please tell us roughly how many young people you would like to support to gain Arts Awards each year

11)	Do you offer Arts Award in addition to or instead of other award programmes like Duke of Edinburgh’s Award or Youth Achievement Award?

In addition to

Instead of

A mix of awards are offered according to the young person or group

other

Arts Award and youth work

12)	Please tell us how you think Arts Award can contribute to youth work objectives (tick as many boxes as you wish)

Contributes to youth service accreditation goals

Contributes to local authority targets for providing positive activities for young people

Offers a constructive framework for running arts activities within youth work

Encourages young people to make decisions and take responsibility

Encourages peer review and leadership

Motivates young people by offering accreditation

Motivates young people by recognising their cultural interests

Stengthens links with artists and arts organisations

Strengthens links with schools

other ( please specify)

13)	Please tell us how Arts Award fits within your own youth service or youth project objectives

Funding Arts Award

14)	How do you fund your Arts Award programme and the costs of young people’s moderations?

Youth service funds	Other local authority funds
Fundraising	Contributions from young people
Mix of above	Other (Please Specify):

15)	Please tell us more about how you have raised or allocated funds to run the Arts Award. Your experience may be useful for other youth workers

16)	Please explain any challenges around funding

17)	Arts Award moderations are currently priced as follows: Bronze - £15 Silver - £18 Gold - £30 Do you think these prices are:

Comparable to the costs of other accreditation for youth work activities

Cheap compared with other accreditation

Expensive compared with other accreditation

18)	Do you think the Arts Award offers good value for money for the experience and accreditation young people get? Does the cost of Arts Award moderations influence the number of young people you offer the award programme to?

19)	If yes, how many young people would you like to engage in the award, disregarding moderation costs?

Guidance for youth workers

20)	Does the Arts Award training and toolkit support you to run the Arts Award within a youth work context?

21)	Which areas of additional sector-specific guidance would you find useful:

Case-studies of Arts Award in youth work settings

Examples of funding

Information and advice about developing links with the arts and cultural sector

Reference to youth service or local authority objectives

Comparisons with other accredited programmes for youth work

Other (Please Specify):

Anything else?

22)	Is there any other advice you can give us about supporting Arts Award within youth work settings?

23)	Please give us your email address if you would like to receive our Arts Award/youth work guidance as soon as it is developed