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After training, a wide range of support is available, including local Arts Award surgeries, regional events, a helpline
and online resources.
‘My Gold Arts Project Leadership unit was a good way of building my project management skills:
planning and analysing a project; budgeting and financial management; liaising and interacting with
customers and different types of people — phone and written communication; building marketing
plans; risk assessments.’
Jon Tebble, Community Arts Apprentice (level 3)
Our three year impact study, run by London Southbank University, reports that Arts Award can accelerate
young people’s confidence, learning and achievement — creating more effective employees:
➡➡ The independent nature of the learning was deemed to enable more innovation and creativity encouraging
students to ‘think outside the box’ and ‘to think for themselves’. Being able to pursue their own interests
was a hugely motivating factor for young people.
➡➡ Arts Award promotes reflection and ‘learning to learn’... providing an inclusive way of structuring learning,
which can engage diverse students on different levels. Furthermore, Arts Award appeared to enable
students to exceed the expectations of other staff members.
Benefits to assessors
Training to be an Arts Award adviser adds
value to your CV and professional offer, and
many organisations use freelance Arts Award
advisers. Arts Award offers you a creative
and flexible way of delivering the Knowledge
Certificate.
Many aspects of Silver or Gold Arts Award
can also contribute to the Community Arts
Apprenticeship Certificate so the acquisition
of knowledge and skills is closely aligned. For
example, a live event organised for the Gold
Arts Award leadership project could also be
used for Design a Project in the Community
Arts Certificate.
How does Arts Award fit into the cultural sector?
Arts Award is recognised and run by a wide range of arts and cultural organisations, including arts centres, galleries,
libraries, music projects, museums and theatres, and is widely used as a framework for work-related learning, work
experience and internships.
York Theatre Royal uses Bronze for week long holiday projects, Silver for work experience and Gold to support
young people to direct youth theatre shows and run their own company.
‘Arts Award gives real arts leadership experience that is transferable, and can be demonstrated at interviews the
moment the young person opens their portfolio. Young people learn to plan, deliver and evaluate projects in such
detail that the next generation of young arts leaders is going to be outstanding!’
Kate Plumb, Youth Theatre Director, York Theatre Royal
Arts Council England encourages its National Portfolio Organisations to run or support the programme and funds
the regional Bridge organisations to promote Arts Award on the ground.
‘We have implemented Gold Arts Award as the knowledge certificate in our apprentice’s Level 3 Community Arts
framework. This has been fantastic for us as an employer because the practical nature of the award means that
the young person is developing relevant skills to support us as an organisation and the modules are quite large
which allows us to focus on just six areas rather than lots of little ones.’
Unit Twenty Three, Diss (CEP grant recipient)
Get in touch!
◗◗ If you’re working with organisations which have received CEP funding and would like to include Arts Award
◗◗ If you’d like to discuss how to introduce Arts Award within your training provider role
◗◗ Contact artsawardenquiries@trinitycollege.org.uk or check www.artsaward.org.uk/apprenticeships