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Inclusion Projects
Working with vulnerable or hard to reach young people in Cornwall.
St Ives School of Painting run inclusion projects to engage specific young people that would not normally be able to engage in our youth arts projects. These vary from cultural camps for targeted young people, to working onsite at secondary schools or engaging with groups in the studio.
We seek to reach out beyond the studio walls and welcome those who would otherwise be unable to access visual arts and culture. Young people gain skills, confidence, resilience and improved aspirations from working with us and having new experiences in the arts. For some, they also achieve a Nationally recognised qualification: Bronze Arts Award.
Culture Camp
Culture Camp is an innovative cultural programme that we run for local young people. It aims to give young people a sense of cultural entitlement and includes artist studio visits, talks, visual arts workshops and trips to cultural and arts institutions.
We work with youth partners and alternative provisions to access vulnerable young people. Since 2019, we have worked in partnership with 10 different schools and educational partners across Cornwall, reaching those most in need.
Culture Camp supports young people to re-engage in learning. All of the young people chosen have low cultural engagement, and having the Culture Camp experience, with Bronze Arts Award embedded, brings huge benefits to such at risk groups.
We work with local secondary schools as well as pupil referral units like Nine Maidens. All referred students from secondary schools are chosen because they are pupil premium and live in low-income families. The young people attending the pupil referral units are excluded from education. We feel it’s important that local young people feel invited to arts spaces that often feel out of reach or exclusive to them. Breaking those barriers to engagement transforms young peoples aspirations.
St Ives School of Painting recognises how art and creativity can transform lives and change perspectives. We continue to support local young people with our resources, experience, artists and passion.
Create Room
This inclusion project, was piloted in Summer term in 2023 and was delivered onsite at Pool Academy during the school day. It is another way of engaging with young people who would otherwise not access the arts. The artist Emma Saffy Wilson supported by an art technician from School of Painting took over an area of the art department and worked with two sets of young people from low income backgrounds. All the art activities surrounded mindfulness and wellbeing.
This project runs again in 2025 with artist Kitty Hillier and will expand into an Arts Award project, so vulnerable teenagers can achieve half a GCSE in Art.
CLEAR Trauma Charity
We started working in partnership with this charity last year to bring the benefits of the arts and creativity to their young people. The young people have all experienced trauma of some kind, and after their allotted therapy sessions, they are referred to work with us. Last year we ran a bespoke Arts Award project for them as a group, followed by an exhibition to celebrate their achievements. In 2025 we are working in partnership with the CLEAR Ideas project.
Community and Hospital Education Service
We have been working with the CHES since 2022. Physical and mental health conditions make normal schooling difficult for these young people. We work with this group on 6 month projects each academic year and focus on art for wellbeing. They can make art for art sake, learn new skills, open up to new possibilities and opportunities.
These projects have a massive impact on the young people’s resilience and ability to cope with their current conditions. In a recent evaluation, data collected from young people at the beginning and end of the CHES project showed that their ability to cope with life doubled.
Funding
All our Inclusion work is grant funded. We wouldn’t be able to engage with these vulnerable groups of young people if it wasn’t for our generous funders Taylor Money, a family run wealth management business in Falmouth. Donations made by the public to the St Ives School of Painting also contribute to these projects. If you are interested in donating, please so do here with our thanks.
We are welcoming more sponsorship partnerships to ensure this vital work is supported for the future. Please get in touch with Cat Lee Youth Arts Manager, [email protected].
I get art now, it’s really clicked!
Quote by excluded young person
I have surprised myself. Being able to cope with going to new places like the Hepworth Sculpture Garden and Tate – I would have not tried this if you hadn’t taken me. And now I know I can do it, I feel much more hopeful.
Quote by young person from CHES
The sessions helped me to get out of the house which makes me feel as though I can do more things like this.
Quote by young person from CHES
The cultural capital that Culture Camp has given our students is immeasurable. It gave our students cultural opportunities they would never otherwise get and the quality of them felt so exclusive.
Quote by PRU staff
These inclusion projects are made possible by the generous support of Taylor Money.
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St Ives Rotary St Ives
Rotary supports the Schools’ work with local young people in the projects Kids Art Club and Porthmeor Art Collective. Part of the proceeds raised by the annual artist postcard sale held during the September Festival is donated to the School.
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