News
Summer Arts Colleges 2010
Friday, 3 Sep 2010
This year we are working with over 50 Youth Offending Teams, around England and Wales, to deliver the successful Unitas programme, Summer Arts Colleges. To date, over 250 young people have received the Bronze Arts Award, an qualification backed by Trinity Guildhall and Arts Council England, and there have been… Read more
TextNow 2009 - 2010 Evaluation Completed
Friday, 3 Sep 2010
The 2009 - 2010 pilot of the TextNow programme across 23 sites in England and Wales has now been completed. We would like to thank co-ordinators, coaches and young people at all the sites that took part - schools, learning support units, pupil referral units, FE Colleges, training providers, youth… Read more
Summer Arts College Surveys
Tuesday, 31 Aug 2010
Collecting the views of young people has always been seen as having a crucial role in shaping and improving Unitas projects and services. As part of our evaluation of this year’s Summer Arts College programme, all sites have been offered the opportunity to take part in the Summer Arts College… Read more
Summer Arts College Expert Seminars
Monday, 28 Jun 2010
This year has seen the launch of our first series of Summer Arts College Expert Seminars. The Expert Seminars were focused on building portfolios and ensuring that young people are able to gain essential qualifications across all Summer Arts College projects running this year. The Bronze and Silver Expert seminars… Read more
TextNow programme shows outstanding results in schools
Friday, 18 Jun 2010
Unitas’s motivational reading programme, TextNow, has just finished being piloted in schools and colleges and the results have been very positive. At the Dunston Youth Achievement Foundation Lane College in Derbyshire, coordinators have commented on, “how well our students have responded to the scheme and what a huge difference it… Read more
TextNow reading programme receives grant from Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Friday, 18 Jun 2010
As a result of recently being award a significant grant from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Unitas’ successful motivational reading programme, TextNow, is being rolled out over the next three years, starting this September. The TextNow reading programme motivates young people to read through developing their enjoyment of, and confidence in,… Read more
Arts Award Access Fund grants to help young people and centres
Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010
The Arts Award Access Fund offers small grants of £50-500 to centres running the Arts Award, to help young people access high quality arts experiences. These grants can be used for tickets to arts events, travel costs, fees for workshops with professional artists and much more. For full details of… Read more
