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
On Wednesday the 29th of July 2015, young people came together for an out of this world project! The first day took off with the young people taking part in a challenger mission, where they had to be different characters to complete the challenge. When they returned to the working space, they were greeted by … Read more
Parents and children got stuck into making a new sculpture for the garden at the New Parks Children’s Centre as a part of the BIG-UP New Parks project year 3. Parents had a go at a range of wood carving and decorating techniques and worked together with their children to produce hangings for trees. The … Read more
In the summer of 2004, about 200 trees were cut down at a site in Beaumont Leys known as Beaumont Walk, to improve access and visibility as part of the ‘Safe Neighbourhoods’ scheme. Soft Touch worked with about 60 local children and young people over a two-week period in August, using the fallen trees to … Read more