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A vision for a fully inclusive Scotland
...coming to The Yard is immense, improving social skills, confidence, fine and gross motor skills, creative and critical thinking. That’s why The Yard runs a school’s service. We work in partnership with both special needs and mainstream...
The Promise to Parkrun: children’s sector conference to deliver diverse programme
...of The Promise Scotland, broadcaster, writer & coach Dr. Vanessa Collingridge, author and creative practitioner Nadine Aisha Jassat, as well as Natalie Don-Innes MSP, Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise. Meanwhile, a...
Success Looks Different: Celebrating Inclusive Education in Scotland
...thanks to the increased participation of children and young people. Submissions were incredibly creative with one school writing a song and another building a diorama (a miniature three-dimensional model) of their school space with QR codes that...
Artwork by young Scottish artists to be showcased in Scotland’s National gallery
...in Scotland’s National gallery 25 Feb 2025 A colourful exhibition, showcasing the artwork of creative 3–18-year-olds from across Scotland is due to open at the National gallery on 10 May. Your Art World encourages young people across the...
Starcatchers presents The Right Start, a national conference to highlight the role of adults and the arts in the realisation of babies' rights in Scotland.
...on advancing a comprehensive approach to babies’ rights that includes the role of the arts and creative experiences, as well as the integral role of a baby’s significant adult in their lives. The Right Start will feature a line-up of...
Access All Arts Fund brings new opportunities to children and young people in 2025
...today announced that 88 awardees will receive a total of £65,095.40 in funding to progress their creative interests. The Access All Arts Fund, managed by Children in Scotland and supported by The National Lottery through creative Scotland,...
Live Music and Mental Health: Innovation Labs
...project. The project was funded by the Scottish Government’s Youth Music Initiative through creative Scotland and The Rayne Foundation. To find out more information, please email David Mackay, dmackay@childreninscotland.org.uk Live...
Making Sense of Scotland – a creative approach to engaging young people with their heritage
...Making Sense of Scotland – a creative approach to engaging young people with their heritage 28 Nov 2024 Did you know that Scottish residents can visit selected Historic Scotland properties for free on the first Sunday of each month up until...
Young people’s creative pursuits supported by national arts funding
... Young people’s creative pursuits supported by national arts funding 16 February 2023 Following a successful second phase of the Access All Arts Fund, 162 young people have been awarded grants towards creative projects and...
Community outreach and creative engagement: Introducing the Boredom Box
... Community outreach and creative engagement: Introducing the Boredom Box 6 Sep 2022 Joe Coleman, General Manager of Peacock Arts, shares how their initiative to battle boredom has taken root in the North East of Scotland. Peacock & the...
New fund supports 106 young people with additional support needs to access the arts and unlock their creative potential
...fund supports 106 young people with additional support needs to access the arts and unlock their creative potential 28 April 2022 MEDIA RELEASE A total of 106 young people with additional support needs have taken forward creative arts projects...
Arts ASN inclusion Participation young peopleFlexible and creative: why the value of the Third Sector should never be underestimated
... Flexible and creative: why the value of the Third Sector shouldn't be underestimated 12 Jan 2022 In October last year Lyndsay Fraser Robertson started as our new Supporting the Third Sector (STTS) Project Manager. Here she reintroduces the...
creative expressions of care
Arts care care experience young carers
New campaign raises awareness of Violence Against Women and Girls among young women in Glasgow
...be a powerful liberating and educational resource for all our young women. It’s been an amazing creative and learning process that I’m confident will prove a leading legacy programme. A catalyst for real change, enlightenment and engagement...
Over 50 schools share £150,000 investment to mark Book Week Scotland
...literacy and communications skills in our children. “I am very pleased to see a range of creative projects benefit from this funding, which will ultimately encourage more young people to read for enjoyment.” Alison Nolan, Chief...
The Yard announces major expansion plan
...and their families through its services in Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, and Dundee. The charity offers creative and inclusive play experiences in a well-supported environment, alongside wraparound support for the whole family. The Dundee Yard, which...
Children’s 12 calls for AI implementation in Scotland
...learning resources for children and adults around AI and children’s rights based on the creative and inclusive approaches used on the project so far. Click here to find out more about Exploring Children’s Rights and...
Access All Arts Fund opens for a third year
...a panel of young people, is open to those aged 11-25 with the aim of supporting access to creative arts opportunities and promoting wellbeing. The fund is now open for applications until 5pm on 25 October. Funded by creative Scotland, the...
Keeping children safe – making sure your organisation has the right things in place
...– NSPCC (click here for more), Children 1st/sportscotland (click here for more) and creative Scotland (click here for more) all provide information covering different sectors. . Just take it one step at a time – have a look at...
#NoWrongPath: Children in Scotland staff share advice on SQA results day
...Aid services and eventually leading on Children's Policy work. “I was still making art as a creative outlet and stress relief, and I loved it so much that I decided to do a masters in Fine Art. Going back to university as a mature student...
New report shares positive stories of inclusion in Scottish schools
...connecting with the wider community. Each of the entries found ways of celebrating success in creative and innovative ways. The Success Looks Different Awards 2023 report shares lots of examples of good practice from the award winners. Lucy...
Looking forward in gloomy times
...of releasing or creating new, independent income streams? How can we create space to have the creative conversations to make all this happen? I am open to ideas, conversations and debates. So please get in touch if you have something you want...
Making research fun to include everybody’s voices
...a range of ways to collect evaluation feedback from children and young people using fun and creative methods. Firstly, it felt important that the researcher was embedded within the group. That sounds a little sneaky, it just meant that as...
New project supports children and young people to access the mental health benefits of live music
...to give equal power to the voices of young people and this project embraced some really creative methods to facilitate intergenerational co-production.” Click here to read the full Live Music and Mental Health report Live Music...
Explore Therapeutic Life Story Work as Diploma course launches for 2024
...perspectives that underpin the TLSW model, and to equip me with some highly practical and creative tools to carry out any counselling work I do in my role as a fostering and adoption social worker. I am just over two years qualified now,...
2023 highlights: reflecting on a milestone year
...as part of the Access All Arts Fund (click here for more), helping to support a range of creative interests including music, photography, dance, film and TV, drawing and painting, and creative writing. Children in Scotland’s young...
Further phase of national arts funding announced, as Access All Arts report launches
...launched the Final Report for year two and announced a third round of funding for 2024. Funded by creative Scotland, the Access All Arts Fund supports young people with disabilities, additional support needs, or other financial, social or mental...
Making cyber security fun for children
...with the name of the book. The story is filled with wonderful ideas from the children’s amazing creative imaginations, and it speaks directly to them. Education Scotland set up a group of advisory teachers who tested the story with their...
It’s not about right or wrong, but about bringing people together
...able to continue to offer our service. This change allowed us and our mediation service to be more creative and invest in improving human connections thorough online mediation. People who are in dispute, whatever it involves, carry a burden,...
Children in Scotland announces new Head of Policy, Projects and Participation
...broad range of topics including mental health, the implications of Brexit, the environment and the creative arts. He is a passionate advocate for children and young people, and I am confident that through his leadership, we can build on the great...
Imagining 'elsewhere': art therapy helping set children free from the anxiety of chronic illness
...medal. Carrie Cowley shares the process of designing the Elsewhere Garden, which was led by the creative ideas of the young people working with the Teapot Trust, and the future plans to replant it permanently at the Royal Hospital for Children...
An imaginative reframing of education in Scotland
...we could have. Our starting principle has always been that children are born capable, sociable, creative enquirers and places of education should be lively and intelligent enough to work with these capacities, not squash them. Some regions of...
AC25 - Exhibitors
...and designs, turning lived experiences into powerful narratives. Our projects provide hands-on creative opportunities, fostering skills, confidence, and representation while partnering with organisations to drive meaningful change. Carers...
AC25 - workshops
...Cyrenian’s Young Ambassadors want you to know about mental health Cyrenians Website | X At creative Natives, a group of young people within Cyrenians, members developed an immersive film, “Learning to Surf”, which plunges viewers into...
AC25 - Programme
...Aisha Jassat Lord Provost + Imperial Suite (main hall) Nadine Aisha Jassat, author and creative practitioner Nadine Aisha Jassat is an author and creative practitioner who has worked with young people across the UK and internationally,...
23/01/25 - Person Centred Planning
...specialises in working with trauma and has a passion for sharing her learning in an accessible and creative format. Have any questions? Please get in touch and a member of the Children in Scotland events team will be happy to...
AC25 - Speakers
...Thursday 29 May 2025, Day Two | 9:55am Website Nadine Aaisha Jassat, author and creative practitioner Keynote, Thursday 29 May 2025, Day Two | 2:10pm Website Nadine Aisha Jassat is author of acclaimed poetry collection...
The Access All Arts Fund 2024 Event Page
...people aged 11-25? The Access All Arts Fund is back for another year to help young people access creative opportunities and improve their wellbeing. Come along to one of our webinars to find out how children and young people can apply to unlock...
2024 Child Development Series
...specialises in working with trauma and has a passion for sharing her learning in an accessible and creative format. Member tickets To access the member price, please input your promo code when booking via the ‘insert promo code’...
AC24 - Exhibition Hall
...and we ship our bakes UK wide every week. email | facebook | instagram _ Braw Talent is a creative agency which uses filmmaking, animation and visual arts to tell the stories of marginalised young people and the organisations that support...
Building Happier Futures
...people, and the surrounding clouds depict the love, care and respect these individuals need. “creative industries are such a competitive field and being given the chance to create a product that is actually my own design – and see it...
Arts care experience charity children and young people design FundraisingCalum Rosie
...and contributing towards members’ publication Insight. Calum has a Master’s degree in creative Writing, which he has used in various and sundry roles including public affairs, intelligence research, and most recently a stint as a...
rosieMember Insight Blog: Latest
...available – NSPCC (click here for more), Children 1st/sportscotland (click here for more) and creative Scotland (click here for more) all provide information covering different sectors. . Just take it one step at a time – have a look at what...
Young musicians invited to Hit The Road
...by the Scottish Music Centre and funded by the Youth Music Initiative (click here for more) via creative Scotland and the PRS Foundation, the project has supported performers including singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi and Perthshire-based...
Arts music scotland young peopleAnimation project shares experiences of the legal system
...and cultural change, and greater resourcing.” Not only did the Alright? project provide a creative output for the participating children and young people, it also shares an important message about the need for lawyers who care about the...
animation Children law young peopleScottish Children’s Health Awards: nominations open
...better” May 17 2023 New app launched to help school leavers June 22 2023 Young people’s creative pursuits supported by national arts funding Feb 16...
awards child health HealthcareFunding confirmed for youth music programmes
...Secretary Angus Robertson announced that the flagship programme, administered by creative Scotland, will receive £9.5 million for 2023, including £500,000 to expand the successful model into other art forms. Aiming to put...
funding Learning music Scottish SchoolsYoung people encouraged to ‘step into’ culture
...to young people aged 5-25 from across Scotland. The fund, which is managed by Youth Scotland and creative Scotland, has two parts: First steps into the arts, for young people who have some, a little or no experience of the arts and want to...
Arts Children culture young peopleBuilding confidence and wellbeing through STEM
...In Action steering group member said: “We hope to make youth workers feel more comfortable using creative STEM in their work, without feeling intimidated because of them not being a “specialist” in it, and to be able to support young people's...
health and wellbeing research science STEM technology young people youth workersResponding to climate crisis through dance
...on 28 February, 2023 by Nina Joynson access all arts Arts climate change creative scotland environment funding Dance film 'elemental' explores our interaction with the natural elements in a narrative on...
access all arts Arts climate change creative scotland environment fundingCELCIS Christmas Card competition 2022
...now open Posted 29 November, 2022 by Jennifer Drummond Arts care experience creative School-aged children and young people with care experience are being invited to submit their designs for this year's Christmas...
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A vision for a fully inclusive Scotland
...coming to The Yard is immense, improving social skills, confidence, fine and gross motor skills, creative and critical thinking. That’s why The Yard runs a school’s service. We work in partnership with both special needs and mainstream...
The Promise to Parkrun: children’s sector conference to deliver diverse programme
...of The Promise Scotland, broadcaster, writer & coach Dr. Vanessa Collingridge, author and creative practitioner Nadine Aisha Jassat, as well as Natalie Don-Innes MSP, Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise. Meanwhile, a...
Success Looks Different: Celebrating Inclusive Education in Scotland
...thanks to the increased participation of children and young people. Submissions were incredibly creative with one school writing a song and another building a diorama (a miniature three-dimensional model) of their school space with QR codes that...
Artwork by young Scottish artists to be showcased in Scotland’s National gallery
...in Scotland’s National gallery 25 Feb 2025 A colourful exhibition, showcasing the artwork of creative 3–18-year-olds from across Scotland is due to open at the National gallery on 10 May. Your Art World encourages young people across the...
Starcatchers presents The Right Start, a national conference to highlight the role of adults and the arts in the realisation of babies' rights in Scotland.
...on advancing a comprehensive approach to babies’ rights that includes the role of the arts and creative experiences, as well as the integral role of a baby’s significant adult in their lives. The Right Start will feature a line-up of...
Access All Arts Fund brings new opportunities to children and young people in 2025
...today announced that 88 awardees will receive a total of £65,095.40 in funding to progress their creative interests. The Access All Arts Fund, managed by Children in Scotland and supported by The National Lottery through creative Scotland,...
Making Sense of Scotland – a creative approach to engaging young people with their heritage
...Making Sense of Scotland – a creative approach to engaging young people with their heritage 28 Nov 2024 Did you know that Scottish residents can visit selected Historic Scotland properties for free on the first Sunday of each month up until...
Young people’s creative pursuits supported by national arts funding
... Young people’s creative pursuits supported by national arts funding 16 February 2023 Following a successful second phase of the Access All Arts Fund, 162 young people have been awarded grants towards creative projects and...
Community outreach and creative engagement: Introducing the Boredom Box
... Community outreach and creative engagement: Introducing the Boredom Box 6 Sep 2022 Joe Coleman, General Manager of Peacock Arts, shares how their initiative to battle boredom has taken root in the North East of Scotland. Peacock & the...
New fund supports 106 young people with additional support needs to access the arts and unlock their creative potential
...fund supports 106 young people with additional support needs to access the arts and unlock their creative potential 28 April 2022 MEDIA RELEASE A total of 106 young people with additional support needs have taken forward creative arts projects...
Arts ASN inclusion Participation young peopleFlexible and creative: why the value of the Third Sector should never be underestimated
... Flexible and creative: why the value of the Third Sector shouldn't be underestimated 12 Jan 2022 In October last year Lyndsay Fraser Robertson started as our new Supporting the Third Sector (STTS) Project Manager. Here she reintroduces the...
New campaign raises awareness of Violence Against Women and Girls among young women in Glasgow
...be a powerful liberating and educational resource for all our young women. It’s been an amazing creative and learning process that I’m confident will prove a leading legacy programme. A catalyst for real change, enlightenment and engagement...
Over 50 schools share £150,000 investment to mark Book Week Scotland
...literacy and communications skills in our children. “I am very pleased to see a range of creative projects benefit from this funding, which will ultimately encourage more young people to read for enjoyment.” Alison Nolan, Chief...
The Yard announces major expansion plan
...and their families through its services in Edinburgh, Kirkcaldy, and Dundee. The charity offers creative and inclusive play experiences in a well-supported environment, alongside wraparound support for the whole family. The Dundee Yard, which...
Children’s 12 calls for AI implementation in Scotland
...learning resources for children and adults around AI and children’s rights based on the creative and inclusive approaches used on the project so far. Click here to find out more about Exploring Children’s Rights and...
Access All Arts Fund opens for a third year
...a panel of young people, is open to those aged 11-25 with the aim of supporting access to creative arts opportunities and promoting wellbeing. The fund is now open for applications until 5pm on 25 October. Funded by creative Scotland, the...
Keeping children safe – making sure your organisation has the right things in place
...– NSPCC (click here for more), Children 1st/sportscotland (click here for more) and creative Scotland (click here for more) all provide information covering different sectors. . Just take it one step at a time – have a look at...
#NoWrongPath: Children in Scotland staff share advice on SQA results day
...Aid services and eventually leading on Children's Policy work. “I was still making art as a creative outlet and stress relief, and I loved it so much that I decided to do a masters in Fine Art. Going back to university as a mature student...
New report shares positive stories of inclusion in Scottish schools
...connecting with the wider community. Each of the entries found ways of celebrating success in creative and innovative ways. The Success Looks Different Awards 2023 report shares lots of examples of good practice from the award winners. Lucy...
Looking forward in gloomy times
...of releasing or creating new, independent income streams? How can we create space to have the creative conversations to make all this happen? I am open to ideas, conversations and debates. So please get in touch if you have something you want...
Making research fun to include everybody’s voices
...a range of ways to collect evaluation feedback from children and young people using fun and creative methods. Firstly, it felt important that the researcher was embedded within the group. That sounds a little sneaky, it just meant that as...
New project supports children and young people to access the mental health benefits of live music
...to give equal power to the voices of young people and this project embraced some really creative methods to facilitate intergenerational co-production.” Click here to read the full Live Music and Mental Health report Live Music...
Explore Therapeutic Life Story Work as Diploma course launches for 2024
...perspectives that underpin the TLSW model, and to equip me with some highly practical and creative tools to carry out any counselling work I do in my role as a fostering and adoption social worker. I am just over two years qualified now,...
2023 highlights: reflecting on a milestone year
...as part of the Access All Arts Fund (click here for more), helping to support a range of creative interests including music, photography, dance, film and TV, drawing and painting, and creative writing. Children in Scotland’s young...
Further phase of national arts funding announced, as Access All Arts report launches
...launched the Final Report for year two and announced a third round of funding for 2024. Funded by creative Scotland, the Access All Arts Fund supports young people with disabilities, additional support needs, or other financial, social or mental...
Making cyber security fun for children
...with the name of the book. The story is filled with wonderful ideas from the children’s amazing creative imaginations, and it speaks directly to them. Education Scotland set up a group of advisory teachers who tested the story with their...
It’s not about right or wrong, but about bringing people together
...able to continue to offer our service. This change allowed us and our mediation service to be more creative and invest in improving human connections thorough online mediation. People who are in dispute, whatever it involves, carry a burden,...
Children in Scotland announces new Head of Policy, Projects and Participation
...broad range of topics including mental health, the implications of Brexit, the environment and the creative arts. He is a passionate advocate for children and young people, and I am confident that through his leadership, we can build on the great...
Imagining 'elsewhere': art therapy helping set children free from the anxiety of chronic illness
...medal. Carrie Cowley shares the process of designing the Elsewhere Garden, which was led by the creative ideas of the young people working with the Teapot Trust, and the future plans to replant it permanently at the Royal Hospital for Children...
An imaginative reframing of education in Scotland
...we could have. Our starting principle has always been that children are born capable, sociable, creative enquirers and places of education should be lively and intelligent enough to work with these capacities, not squash them. Some regions of...
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Calum Rosie
...and contributing towards members’ publication Insight. Calum has a Master’s degree in creative Writing, which he has used in various and sundry roles including public affairs, intelligence research, and most recently a stint as a...
rosieAC25 - Exhibitors
...and designs, turning lived experiences into powerful narratives. Our projects provide hands-on creative opportunities, fostering skills, confidence, and representation while partnering with organisations to drive meaningful change. Carers...
AC25 - workshops
...Cyrenian’s Young Ambassadors want you to know about mental health Cyrenians Website | X At creative Natives, a group of young people within Cyrenians, members developed an immersive film, “Learning to Surf”, which plunges viewers into...
AC25 - Programme
...Aisha Jassat Lord Provost + Imperial Suite (main hall) Nadine Aisha Jassat, author and creative practitioner Nadine Aisha Jassat is an author and creative practitioner who has worked with young people across the UK and internationally,...
23/01/25 - Person Centred Planning
...specialises in working with trauma and has a passion for sharing her learning in an accessible and creative format. Have any questions? Please get in touch and a member of the Children in Scotland events team will be happy to...
AC25 - Speakers
...Thursday 29 May 2025, Day Two | 9:55am Website Nadine Aaisha Jassat, author and creative practitioner Keynote, Thursday 29 May 2025, Day Two | 2:10pm Website Nadine Aisha Jassat is author of acclaimed poetry collection...
The Access All Arts Fund 2024 Event Page
...people aged 11-25? The Access All Arts Fund is back for another year to help young people access creative opportunities and improve their wellbeing. Come along to one of our webinars to find out how children and young people can apply to unlock...
2024 Child Development Series
...specialises in working with trauma and has a passion for sharing her learning in an accessible and creative format. Member tickets To access the member price, please input your promo code when booking via the ‘insert promo code’...
AC24 - Exhibition Hall
...and we ship our bakes UK wide every week. email | facebook | instagram _ Braw Talent is a creative agency which uses filmmaking, animation and visual arts to tell the stories of marginalised young people and the organisations that support...
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creative expressions of care
postArts care care experience young carers
Building Happier Futures
post
...people, and the surrounding clouds depict the love, care and respect these individuals need. “creative industries are such a competitive field and being given the chance to create a product that is actually my own design – and see it...
Arts care experience charity children and young people design FundraisingMember Insight Blog: Latest
post
...available – NSPCC (click here for more), Children 1st/sportscotland (click here for more) and creative Scotland (click here for more) all provide information covering different sectors. . Just take it one step at a time – have a look at what...
Young musicians invited to Hit The Road
post
...by the Scottish Music Centre and funded by the Youth Music Initiative (click here for more) via creative Scotland and the PRS Foundation, the project has supported performers including singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi and Perthshire-based...
Arts music scotland young peopleAnimation project shares experiences of the legal system
post
...and cultural change, and greater resourcing.” Not only did the Alright? project provide a creative output for the participating children and young people, it also shares an important message about the need for lawyers who care about the...
animation Children law young peopleScottish Children’s Health Awards: nominations open
post
...better” May 17 2023 New app launched to help school leavers June 22 2023 Young people’s creative pursuits supported by national arts funding Feb 16...
awards child health HealthcareFunding confirmed for youth music programmes
post
...Secretary Angus Robertson announced that the flagship programme, administered by creative Scotland, will receive £9.5 million for 2023, including £500,000 to expand the successful model into other art forms. Aiming to put...
funding Learning music Scottish SchoolsYoung people encouraged to ‘step into’ culture
post
...to young people aged 5-25 from across Scotland. The fund, which is managed by Youth Scotland and creative Scotland, has two parts: First steps into the arts, for young people who have some, a little or no experience of the arts and want to...
Arts Children culture young peopleBuilding confidence and wellbeing through STEM
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...In Action steering group member said: “We hope to make youth workers feel more comfortable using creative STEM in their work, without feeling intimidated because of them not being a “specialist” in it, and to be able to support young people's...
health and wellbeing research science STEM technology young people youth workersResponding to climate crisis through dance
post
...on 28 February, 2023 by Nina Joynson access all arts Arts climate change creative scotland environment funding Dance film 'elemental' explores our interaction with the natural elements in a narrative on...
access all arts Arts climate change creative scotland environment fundingCELCIS Christmas Card competition 2022
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...now open Posted 29 November, 2022 by Jennifer Drummond Arts care experience creative School-aged children and young people with care experience are being invited to submit their designs for this year's Christmas...
Arts care experience creative