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
The Style Your Space group have taken their skills to the next level by painting a large scale mural on a well known building in New Parks. The group were approached by Judith Wray of the local Methodist Church, who asked if they would be able to brighten up their building. Rising to the challenge, … Read more
This pilot project was a partnership between Soft Touch, Historypin and the University of Leicester Library to create a digital archive of photographs and ephemera about Welford Road Stadium, home of the Leicester Tigers rugby union club. The focus of the project was the traditional Christmas-time fixture between the Tigers and the Barbarians, played every … Read more
A group of Gypsy Traveller Health Ambassadors have been working with Soft Touch for 6 months in 2014 to design health promotion materials for their community and for people who have limited reading abilities. Their work has been based around healthier lifestyles and positive mental health. Funded by a Leicestershire County Council Innovation Bursary, the … Read more
Changing You(th). Teenagers in the 1950’s and today was a Soft Touch project that brought young and older people together. The project compared how teenagers feel about themselves and the world around them in the 1950’s to teenage experiences today. The resulting free multi-media exhibition was open at 50 New Walk for the whole of … Read more
A popular and successful summer project was ran on Gilmorton estate. Soft Touch worked with more than forty five local young people to paint a 15m wide mural and carve a totem pole. There was a lot of input and positive comments from local residents and the young people worked through blistering heat and torrential … Read more