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FIRST YEAR OF MASH-UP A BIG SUCCESS

June 2010

MASH-UP has been providing positive activities for young people in Leicester
since summer 2009, with a focus on the west of the city on Friday and
Saturday nights. The take up has been fantastic, far exceeding our
expectations - 341 young people took part in the nine months to March 2010.
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Congratulations Ali!

May 2010

Ali Agayev is a talented artist from Azerbaijan who Soft Touch have been supporting. Ali’s picture of Leicester Market has been being voted by the public as the best painting in a competition sponsored by Gadesby’s to coincide with Leicester Market’s Artisan Festival, which took place on 25 April 2009. More...

Creative Team Awards

June 2010

First group of young people achieve their Creative Team Award. More...

BIG JAM

10 July 2010 - Event went well. Thanks to all who attended!

7-10 at Alexton Youth and Community Centre, Frolesworth Rd, New Parks, Leicester.

Age 13-19 No Alcohol event e joe@soft-touch.org.uk

We’ve made the Skills Pledge! - July 2010

We are happy to announce that Soft Touch Arts has taken the Skills Pledge. This is a voluntary, public commitment made by organisations to invest in the skills of its workforce. It’s a promise that through training, productivity and efficiency we will improve and realise the potential of our staff, volunteers and board members by developing their basic skills and working towards relevant, valuable qualifications.

Skills pledge website: https://skillspledge.broadsystem.com/Home.aspx

Young people start their own project - July 2010

Creative Young New Parks (CYNP) is a project based at Hand in Hand in New Parks which has been started up by two young people who have been attending Soft Touch’s MASH-UP programme as Creative Mentors and volunteers.

Here’s what the young people say about their project:
The young people running it have been learning mentoring skills for some time, so they, and other local groups and freelancers, can deliver creative arts projects to other local young people. The areas covered will be music production, video production, animation, art and fashion, with a view to expanding onto DJ-ing and maybe more in the future. more...

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.