About Soft Touch Arts:
Soft Touch Arts Limited is an established and leading participatory arts company based in Leicester. Soft Touch's mission is to use the arts to offer people with limited opportunities the chance to work together to effect positive change for themselves and their communities.
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- The ‘Positive Vibes’ anti-bullying project for young people
- ‘Creative Streets’ positive creative activities for children and young people‘Connect’ strand which will bring young and old together through joint creative projects and street events:
- 'On the Make' and 'Movers and Makers' Capacity building and training for residents to deliver their own creative activities:
- ‘Creative Mentors’ programme for NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) young people aged 16-25:
- 'Well Cool' Health awareness project.
The Intro in the BIG-UP section on the left has further details about each strand.
BIG-UP New Parks is a five-year programme of creative activities and projects, run by Soft Touch Arts and funded by the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Programme.
Within the programme there are different strands of work designed to focus on some of the issues and needs identified by young people, adults and organisations on the estate.
