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Soft Touch Chef Sessions Review

Soft Touch Arts Chef 👩‍🍳 Sessions June 22nd-28th 2020

Creative Studio Taking School Referrals

Supporting schools with education placements for students

We’re still running creative sessions

We are still running some sessions online during the lockdown.

Unlocked lockdown project

Prisoners respond to #whatdoeslockdownmean2you

Open Ears, listening to what the young artists say

Late in 2019 we asked our young artists and musicians what they liked about coming to Soft Touch Arts

Mods: Shaping a Generation & ReVive Festival scoops prestigious Leicestershire Tourism Award

The team behind the success of the Mods: Shaping a Generation Exhibition and tie-in ReVive Festival were thrilled to win the  best free Event/Festival of 2019 at the Leicester Promotions Leicestershire Tourism Awards on 29/11/19.

Nicol Nightingale-Spear Joins Soft Touch Management Board

Director of Fothergill Wyatt Joins Management Board of Leicester Charity Soft Touch Arts

Art Auction Raises £8000!

Thank you from the bottom of our Soft Touch HeArts! 🎉 We are still blinking with amazement at the amount raised at Soft Touch Art Auction 2019 – an exclusive fundraising evening on 1st October!

Cambridge and Counties Bank Support the Next Generation

Cambridge & Counties Bank love to work with charities. Over the past year with funding awarded from the bank via the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation, Soft Touch Arts has been able to pilot a Creative Enterprise Project, giving new opportunities and support to 24 young people…

UpSTart’s latest dates for summer Creative Days Out and street sessions

You're invited to a Creative Day Out at Soft Touch Arts or a street session in your neighbourhood. Explore a range of arts activities and create music, have lunch and a change to sign up to the UpSTart project a day to try new things, meet new people and get involved.

Revive Festival success as Leicester goes Mod

Over three weekends at the end of June, Leicester’s first ReVive Festival captured the imagination of Leicester cultural organisations, venues and businesses. They put on films, dance and music and embraced the 1960s with shop window displays, 1960s prices and themed food and drinks. 

Mods: Shaping A Generation – Modified

Mods: Shaping a Generation Mods: Shaping a Generation told the story of a 1960s first youth subculture through a major exhibition at Soft Touch Arts and New Walk Museum . .

Mixt Up Survey Results and interview

YOUTH MUSIC YOUNG PERSON’S SURVEY

Refer a young person – project list

A snapshot of a week at Soft Touch and what projects you can refer young people to. Click the links to find out about projects and referral processes.