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Running Arts Award

We have made some important changes to how we quality assure Arts Award. The changes to the quality assurance process will improve the assessment and certification process for centres allowing greater focus on the delivery of Arts Award for young people.

In practice, this will mean that the majority of centres will no longer be moderated every time they enter young people for Arts Award certification. For more detailed information, read our News and FAQs  and check the Enter Young People section of our website.

So you've registered your organisation as a centre. Great! On this page you can find links to everything you need to run Arts Award successfully. 

If your centre is not yet validated or you haven’t trained as an adviser learn more about the steps to getting started with Arts Award including deciding which levels to offer and how to arrange training.

If you would like to find out more about entering young people for Arts Award, please head to the Enter Young People section of our website.

For answers to common questions like how complete your centre registration or link to an Arts Award centre or how to reset your centre portal login details check out our Help Centre which may well have the answer.

What you will find in this section

  • Plan and get going - advice, support and resources for planning and starting your Arts Award delivery including information about costs and recruiting young people to your project.
  • Deliver - advice, support and resources for your delivery of Arts Award including lots of support on creating portfolios and 'arts logs

Arts Award Centre Map

Arts Award Shop

Book Training

Centre portal

Complete your centre registration and enrol young people