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Arts Award

Starting your Arts Award with us this summer…

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If you know a young person thinking of joining our whole host of summer activities, we are also offering the chance to start their Bronze Arts Award ?

This applies to all three holiday programmes and is an amazing way to begin the journey towards a qualification in the arts ? 

We spent the February 2021 half-term helping young people start on their Arts Award, but what exactly is it?

What is an arts award?

An arts award is “a range of unique qualifications that supports anyone aged up to 25 to grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with and take part in the wider arts world through taking challenges in an art form – from fashion to digital art, pottery to poetry”.

It’s an opportunity for young people to discover more about arts and arts industries, gain experience and even gain a qualification along the way.

It’s split into three awards: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Each award incrementally requires even more hours and more commitment, but simultaneously offers more UCAS points.

Doing an arts award requires a facilitator (a school, a community centre or someone like yours truly) and can be run in the way which they see fit for the young people.

An image from when we launched the arts award in February.

What do young people get out of doing it?

First and foremost, they get a qualification that works like so:

Bronze Award: Level 1 Qualification

Silver Award: Level 2 Qualification

Gold Award: Level 3 Qualification (Equivalent to 16 UCAS Points)

But, certainly for the first two awards, an arts award is much more about discovering new arts and gaining experience that otherwise you may find difficult to come across.

As mentors, it would be our job to assist young people in pinpointing what they would like to actually do for their Arts Award, as well as supporting them through their journey. This way, they are not alone in achieving this award.

It’s a chance for young people to actively participate, actively experience and actively create their chosen art.

How do you register?

Easy!

Please contact clara@kwmc.org.uk for more information about the arts award and follow the link in our bio to sign-up for our summer programme ☀️

Our Impact from November 2020 to March 2021

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We wanted to look back and reflect on the impact we have made on young people over the last few months. So here are a sample of statistics we’ve gathered together:

50 Virtual Sessions

This last year, we’ve had to deal with running after-school sessions in a lockdown. Whilst this has been a journey in itself, we’ve proudly managed to deliver 50 virtual sessions to young people in the area to get them engaged with arts, technology and social action.

45 Young People in our Weekly Sessions

We are always blown away by the young people that come to our sessions on a weekly basis and it is incredible to see the progress they make throughout the months (and more) that they spend with us.

Young People, like Manu, have been attending sessions for much longer than just one term and we hope to be a part of their lives as they grow even further.

Since we reopened our doors, we’ve seen 45 young people coming through our doors on a weekly basis.

Young People turning up for one of our after-school sessions.

20 Videos Produced for Clients

The last four months has seen the Eight Creative Agency create 20 different videos for clients. That means over twenty established and emerging creatives being paid to work on exciting, paid projects in the Bristol area.

The most recent projects that Eight have produced have been with the South West Creative Technology Network, where they were capturing stories of data prototype projects.

20 One-to-One Support Sessions

One of the services we provide to young people is one-to-support sessions to help guide them on b0th a personal and professional level.

The last few months, we’ve been able to offer twenty of those sessions to young people in the Bristol area.

16 KWMC Staff in Coaching Training

Part of what makes the Knowle West Media Centre amazing is our approach to coaching (a learning process which aims to grow individuals awareness, responsibility and choice) and over recent months, we currently have 16 staff at Knowle West Media Centre in coaching training.

This means that our staff will be more equipped to listen, adopt a growth mindset and raise their aspirations which is a fantastic tool when working with young people.

15 Young People in Half-Term Sessions

This February half-term, we ran the ‘Young People Can Make’ programme for 15 young people in the area.

Over the week, this was a chance to engage young people with design projects and prototypes that helped tackle social action issues like racism and climate change.

A snap from our Jump Studios team welcoming a couple of young people to the week of sessions.

14 Young People Kickstarting their Arts Award

14 young people have made the exciting step to kick off their arts award. The award is a nationally recognised qualification enabling the young people to progress into further education and employment.

We cannot wait to see how the journeys to get their Bronze Arts Award progress and what they will learn.

12 Creatives Supported

As part of Eight, we have managed to get 12 emerging creatives paid work to support them in the creative industries.

For examples, our recent project with Filwood Fantastic involved the two amazing creatives: Monica Tuffs and Keira Needham.

Check in with us later in 2021 for our next impact report.

Keep up to date with our journey by following Jump Studios on Instagram and Twitter.