This campaign has now closed

Inspired by G F and Mary Watts’s belief that art transforms lives, the Art for All Learning Programme reaches out to 28,000 learners each year including the most marginalised and the most in need to offer skills, qualifications, employment, personal transformation and the development of self worth.

100%
Categories

Beneficiaries

Situation

Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village is located in Surrey; a county that is often perceived as wealthy. In fact, Surrey has significant areas of urban and rural deprivation with high levels of child poverty, low income, and poor mental health; for example: * 10% of children live in poverty * the population of travellers and gypsies is the fourth largest in the UK * there are 5 prisons including 2 women’s prisons and 1 young offenders institution * levels of domestic violence are particularly high

Solution

This project provides art for all to transform lives and to teach new skills to young people, families, schools, adults and community groups. Through artist-led workshops, participants explore our art collection, discuss the issues painted by G F and Mary Watts, talk about their own lives, learn art, craft and design skills, make art, craft and design, exhibit and sell their work in an annual exhibition, and in many cases gain a qualification and employment, and return to formal education.

100%
Categories

Beneficiaries