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With your support, we will provide a year of free, participatory, and inclusive arts activities for children in Sussex who face barriers to accessing art (including disabled children, and/or with additional needs, and/or mental health challenges) to boost their creativity, confidence, and happiness!
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Situation
Engaging children and young people in the arts is of vital importance for their mental health and personal development. We asked people in our community, and they said cost, travel, and non-inclusive spaces are barriers to them accessing art. After the isolation of the Covid pandemic, and cost of living crisis, this situation has only worsened for children. We believe that every child should have access to the arts.
Solution
A recent Arts Council England report found that found that many children were unable to identify arts opportunities in their area but that the situation could be improved with more arts activity based in ‘youth club environments’. SCIP provides exactly this of environment – free, participatory, inclusive arts activities for children who find it difficult to access this kind of service. We will also include children in planning the solutions in their local area - children should take the lead.
