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Inclusion Projects
Working with vulnerable or hard to reach young people in Cornwall.
St Ives School of Painting run inclusion projects to engage specific young people that would not normally be able to engage in youth arts. These vary from cultural camps for targeted young people, to working onsite at secondary schools or engaging with groups in the studio.
We seek to reach out beyond the studio walls and welcome those who would otherwise be unable to access visual arts and culture. Young people gain skills, confidence, resilience and improved aspirations from working with us and having new experiences in the arts. For some, they also achieve a Nationally recognised qualification: Bronze Arts Award.
Create Room
This inclusion project, was piloted in Summer term in 2023 and was delivered onsite at Pool Academy during the school day. It is another way of engaging with young people who would otherwise not access the arts. The artist Emma Saffy Wilson supported by an art technician from School of Painting took over an area of the art department and worked with two sets of young people from low income backgrounds. All the art activities surrounded mindfulness and wellbeing.
This project ran again in 2025 with artist Kitty Hillier, engaging Pool Academy’s young people from low income households. It was expanded into an Arts Award project, so vulnerable teenagers can achieve half a GCSE in Art. This will run again in 2026 at Pool Academy and thanks to the Duchy Health Charity, we can now expand this wellbeing and art project to two new schools – Richard Lander and Penair School in Truro.
Please see here the latest evaluation of this project.
Community and Hospital Education Service
We have been working with the CHES since 2021. Physical and mental health conditions make normal schooling difficult for these young people. We work with this group on 6 month projects each academic year and focus on art for wellbeing. They can make art for art sake, learn new skills, and open up to new possibilities and opportunities.
These projects have a massive impact on the young people’s resilience and ability to cope with their current conditions. In a recent evaluation, data collected from young people at the beginning and end of the CHES project showed that their ability to cope with life doubled.
Culture Camp
Culture Camp is an innovative cultural programme that we run for local young people. It aims to give young people a sense of cultural entitlement and includes artist studio visits, visual arts workshops and trips to cultural and arts institutions. The programme is known to boost the young people’s self-belief, help them feel more present and increase their confidence. Having a Bronze Arts Award embedded into the programme, also brings huge benefits to such at risk groups.
We work with youth partners to access these vulnerable young people. Since 2019, we have worked in partnership with 12 different schools and alternative provisions across Cornwall, reaching those most in need. All referred students are chosen because they are struggling and often live in low-income families. The young people attending the pupil referral units like Nine Maidens are excluded from education. We feel it’s important that local young people feel invited to arts spaces that often feel out of reach or exclusive to them. Breaking those barriers to engagement transforms young peoples aspirations.
Funding
All our Inclusion work is grant funded. We wouldn’t be able to engage with these vulnerable groups of young people if it wasn’t for our generous sponsors Taylor Money, a family run wealth management business in Falmouth. Donations made by the public to the St Ives School of Painting also contribute to these projects. If you are interested in donating, please so do here with our thanks.
We are welcoming more sponsorship partnerships to ensure this vital work is supported for the future. Please get in touch with Cat Lee Youth Arts Manager, [email protected].
I get art now, it’s really clicked!
Quote by excluded young person
I have surprised myself. Being able to cope with going to new places like the Hepworth Sculpture Garden and Tate – I would have not tried this if you hadn’t taken me. And now I know I can do it, I feel much more hopeful.
Quote by young person from CHES
The sessions helped me to get out of the house which makes me feel as though I can do more things like this.
Quote by young person from CHES
The cultural capital that Culture Camp has given our students is immeasurable. It gave our students cultural opportunities they would never otherwise get and the quality of them felt so exclusive.
Quote by PRU staff
These inclusion projects are made possible by the generous support of Taylor Money.
Taylor Money
The Duchy Health Charity
Duchy Health Charity exists to help improve the health and wellbeing of the people of Cornwall. The Duchy Health Charity have granted funds for us to expand the project Create Room to two more Cornish secondary schools in 2026.
St Ives Rotary St Ives
St Ives Rotary supports our work with local young people in the projects Kids Art Club and Porthmeor Art Collective. Part of the proceeds raised by the annual artist postcard sale held during the September Festival is donated to the School.
Little Parc Owles Trust
Makes grants to other organisations (museums, galleries, schools, charities) to assist their educational programmes through events, talks, research projects related to widening access to appreciation of history and practice of fine and applied arts in Cornwall.
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