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
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
In August, Soft Touch Arts held an exhibition at Highcross Leicester in collaboration with graphic design agency, Arch Creative, and sponsored by Kaplan Financial. Of course, this wasn’t just an ordinary exhibition! Talented young people at Soft Touch took photographs around Leicester guided by the expert eye of professional photographer Tom Wren, who gave his … Read more
Over 1,000 young people participated over the three years creating videos, music, photography, creative writing and many other arts based products. STRETCH was a three-year programme of arts activities to enable young people who were not engaging in mainstream youth or educational services to progress with personal, social and learning goals. We also supported … Read more