Aberdeen City Music School are a secondary school with a strong music focus. Using Bronze, Silver and Gold they encourage young people to pursue their own musical interests while learning more about career pathways directly relevant to them.

Based at Sage Gateshead, North Music Trust delivered music-focused Silver and Gold Arts Award projects. Working with two young people 1:1 provided the support they needed to successfully achieve their awards. This approach is one the centre hope to replicate in future.

Beat It Percussion delivered Arts Award alongside their children's drumming workshops at Drum Camp, a festival in Bungay, Suffolk. They offered Discover, Explore and Bronze levels to be completed within the three days of the festival.

Metal is an arts organisation that creates large- scale, participatory projects that respond to the immediate environment and involve people of all ages and backgrounds. They developed a pilot project for four Artsmark Gold primary schools, called Metal Artsbox Challenge, to deliver Arts Award Explore using Artsbox for evidencing.

Peshkar Productions supported 20 girls aged 13-16 from two schools in Oldham to gain Bronze Arts Awards using drama and stop motion animation.

During 2014 the Family Arts Campaign and Arts Award worked together to pilot projects across the UK, trialling different ways to integrate families into the activities undertaken by young people completing their Arts Award.

This document is a case study of a pilot project carried out by Derby QUAD and Déda by running Arts Award as a strand of QUAD’s pre-existing Q Club.

Blazing Sables Makeup Artist Training School is based in Walthamstow London. They train future makeup artists & industry professionals. They’ve been running Bronze for the last two years and have taken 17 students through to moderation. Stella Photis, the Founder and Director of Blazing Sables has used Bronze, Silver and Gold as a starting point to build her own courses as a progression route to becoming a makeup artist/industry professional.

The University of Cambridge Museums delivered Shakespeare Challenge in collaboration with a local secondary school. The aim of the project was to introduce 15 Year 8 students to the world of Shakespeare, using the museum’s collections as a stimulus.

Youth Dance England are a national organisation and work with young people across the UK on time-limited projects and events, such as the national youth dance festival and young ambassadors’ programmes. Youth Dance England has been using Artsbox for the last 18 months with their National Young Dance Ambassadors programme, who do Bronze, Silver and Gold. 

The Core is the main arts venue in Corby, Northamptonshire. The venue offers a number of activities from weekly drama sessions to one off digital projects,dance residencies to musical taster workshops. The Core also offers Arts Award at all levels and across multiple arts forms with young people aged 5-25 years old. They have been delivering Arts Award for two years. 91 young people have achieved awards to date.

Saint Nathaniel’s is a large primary school in Stoke on Trent. The school offers pupils opportunities to participate in a wide range of art forms, both in curriculum time and as extra-curricular opportunities. In the school’s arts week, 120 children achieved Discover with 55 working towards Explore.

The Hertfordshire & Essex High School are a Good Practice Centre for 2017-18. 

One part of their large Arts Award programme takes place in the school library, with Librarian Chloe Dash acting as Arts Award adviser for a group of young people who wish to combine their CILIP Carnegie Medal Shadowing programme with their Arts Award. 

Read adviser Charlotte Tupper's case study of delivering Gold Art Award as part of the London Transport Museum's apprenticeship programme

Hackney Central Library

Norfolk Libraries: Great Yarmouth Library

Norfolk Library and Information Service

Staffordshire Libraries Explore Case Study

1st Olney Scout Group embedded Arts Award into their weekly Scout programme, which includes outdoor pursuits, community involvement, creative expression and learning about the wider world. 19 Scouts achieved their Bronze Arts Award.

The Arts Award Access Fund provides small grants to Arts Award centres working with young people for whom access and inclusion is an issue. It first launched in 2007, and since then has enabled thousands of young people to achieve an Arts Award.

Taking part in the awards can often have a huge impact on young people’s lives, their aspirations and self-esteem. These are stories from just a few of the centres who have received Access Fund grants.

This Arts Award Centre has integrated Arts Award into their regular offer for young people, who are supported to gain their Arts Award at Bronze, Silver or Gold level.