https://www.soft-touch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/0603.mp4 This year’s Eco Festival, RADICAL HOPE, is happening on Saturday 28th June — and it’s set to be an inspiring day full of creativity and connection! Join us for a vibrant celebration featuring art, sculpture, live music, talks, and so much more. The festival will be taking place at our New Walk venue, as … Read more
A weekly arts session for young people aged 12-17 in Leicester. This session will have a focus on arts, including visual and digital art, clothes design, animation and photography. The sessions will also have a music element to it, including a band session, music production and song writing. To refer to a project click … Read more
This is what we do. In our art and music project sessions, our youth workers talk to young people about what direction they want to take their work in and how we can support it. This is youth voice. Outside of these sessions and in our main space, we invite young people to discuss … Read more
STart is a project designed to reach out to young people who feel isolated from the community. It engages them with art, music and social activities to help build their confidence and develop creative skills and talents. STart is a regular weekly session that takes place on Thursday evenings, running throughout the year at Soft … Read more
YES project aims to change lives of young people Soft Touch Arts is one of eight partners working with Voluntary Action LeicesterShire (VAL) on a new £1.94m project that will support some of Leicester and Leicestershire’s most at risk young people. The project, called the Youth Employability Support (YES) project, will aim to transform the … Read more
Held 14th September to 12th October 2018 This was a spilt site exhibition at Soft Touch Arts, 50 New Walk, Leicester and Leicester New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester This exhibition was a collection of works created by men serving sentences at HMP Leicester, HMP Stocken, and the now-closed HMP Glen … Read more
Inside Outside – Prison Art Exhibition The Inside Outside Prison Art Exhibition is a culmination of months of hard work by a dedicated group of young men at HMP Glen Parva, who create artwork for themselves, for loved ones and to brighten up the prison surroundings. The Inside Outside Prison Art Exhibition is a culmination … Read more
Work and Progress As part of funding received from Ambition, young people that attend our STart sessions produced artwork and music for their Work and Progress exhibition at Soft Touch’s New Walk building. The exhibition was titled “Work and Progress” and featured work from young people who have attended STart over the last two years. … Read more
Braunstone Frith Mural was a partnership between local residents and a local arts charity. On the 13th and 18th of August 2015, local residents worked with Soft Touch Arts Project Leader Kieran Walsh to design a mural that would brighten up their community. Five local residents designed and sprayed this brilliant mural in the last … Read more
