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Oh WOW the national lottery are funding our project YAC on the road
On the morning of the 31st January 2023 we recieved an amazing email from the national lottery.
“We’re really happy to tell you we will be funding your project following your application for National Lottery Awards for All.”
This means The National Lottery Community Fund is giving Youth Art Connect CIC £10,000 to help your community thrive.
With this fund we intend to invest in an art studio on wheels, which means we will be able to reach more places and many more people. Cities, towns, villages, fields and beaches you name it, we’ll be there.
We have been approached by several mental health organisations and youth organisations asking us to set up in various more remote and isolated areas of Cornwall to provide fun, exciting and differentiated art sessions that are based around positive mental health counselling and strategies. But due to the remote locations, it’s almost impossible for some groups of young people to access services and community events. So we thought, let’s get some wheels. That way we are fully mobile, complete with our pop up, all weather gazebos and we can take YAC on the road to reach marginalised and ostracised groups of young people.
Our core groups are children and young adults experiencing mental health crises or trauma, at risk of anti-social behaviour orders, disengagement with education and school refusal, and disabled young people (particularly autistic ). With the wheels, we can reach so many more places and make the service accessible to all.