Arts Award and Summer Reading Challenge
Did you know you can use the House and the Mouse activity book for Arts Award Discover?
’Arts Award Discover was a great fit with what we were already
delivering and contributed to our library strategy. The staff and
children really enjoyed the project and feedback from the parents
has been really positive. It was a really good way of bringing
children of different ages and schools together to have fun and
learn. One group of children even met outside of the library and
visited the cinema together as part of the award.’
Ruth Gedalovitch, Reader Development Manager for Havering Libraries
What is Arts Award?
 Arts Award’s unique qualifications support young people to develop as artists and
arts leaders
 The programme develops creativity, leadership and communications skills
 Arts Award is open to anyone aged 5* to 25
 Arts Award embraces all interests and backgrounds
 Available at five levels, four accredited on the QCF and one introductory level
Arts Award is run by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England working with 10 regional Bridge organisations
* Arts Award will be available for 5 and 6 year olds from September 2013
What do children do for Arts Award Discover?
 Take part in a range of arts activities to widen their experience and understanding
of the arts. This could include reading, writing, storytelling, drawing, drama.... any
creative activities they get involved in at the library, or elsewhere
 Find out about artists and their work. Writers, poets, illustrators, singers, actors
and creative people they know or meet through the Summer Reading Challenge
 Share what they found out: with others taking part in the Summer Reading
Challenge, staff and volunteers at the library, their family – or online at
www.creepy-house.org.uk
 Create an arts log of evidence. For Summer Reading Challenge 2013 they can use
the House and Mouse activity book
Arts Award Discover &
Summer Reading Challenge 2013
 The Reading Agency has worked closely with Trinity College and the regional
Bridge organisations to embed Arts Award Discover into the Summer Reading
Challenge 2013
 If you have purchased the House and the Mouse activity book this can be used as
the arts log for Arts Award Discover
 Any library wanting to offer children Arts Award Discover will need a trained Arts
Award adviser – ask your Bridge about training
 Each child achieves an Arts Award certificate which costs between £1 and £2.50
depending on group size. Taking part in Summer Reading Challenge may entitle
libraries to discounted fees
Arts Award Discover &
Summer Reading Challenge 2013
 We hope that you will want to use the House and the Mouse activity book to
deliver Arts Award Discover! However, you are not required to run Arts Award in
order to use the activity book
 You can take a look inside the activity book here: The House and the Mouse
 Even if you don’t run Arts Award Discover with the House and the Mouse activity
book, it will show you how easy it is to incorporate Arts Award into existing
projects
 The Bridge organisations are actively encouraging libraries to engage with Arts
Award and may be able to help you to do so
Delivering Arts Award
 You will need to have a member of staff or a volunteer with experience of working
with children trained as an Arts Award Discover and Explore adviser
 Register your library service as an Arts Award centre. This is free and advisers can
work across your library sites
 You can work in collaboration with an existing Arts Award centre* to deliver Arts
Award
* Find local centres on the map at www.artsaward.org.uk/centres
Arts Award Supporter
If you’re not ready to run Arts Award at your library you can register as an Arts
Award Supporter. This is free and gives you the opportunity to promote activities
you offer that children and young people can use towards their Arts Award.
As a Supporter your library might offer:
 workshops
 arts, literary and cultural events which they can review
 opportunities to find out about artists and cultural opportunities
 a chance to share skills, lead arts projects or show their work at the library
Find out more and register at www.artsaward.org.uk/supporter
Support
 Trinity College manages Arts Award on behalf of the Arts Council England. The Arts
Award website tells you about the different levels, how to deliver it, what children
and young people get out of it, and provides resources and case studies –
www.artsaward.org.uk
 The Arts Award Guide has information and costs www.artsaward.org.uk/guide
 The Arts Council funded Bridge organisations are actively engaging with the library
sector to encourage more library services to train staff as advisers and deliver Arts
Award.
Bridge Organisations
A goal of Arts Council England’s mission, ‘achieving great art for everyone’, is to
make sure that every child and young person has the opportunity to experience
the richness of the arts and culture. To help achieve this, ACE has funded a
network of 10 ‘Bridge’ organisations.
They use their experience and expertise to connect children and young people,
schools, communities, libraries and museums with art and culture.
What Bridges can to do support your library
 Each regional Bridge organisation has an officer with responsibilities for engaging
with libraries
 Many offer training advice on Arts Award and may be able to help library
staff/volunteers access Arts Award Adviser training
 The Bridges have excellent information on the arts and cultural offers and
organsations within their region
 They offer an excellent opportunity for library services to engage with other arts
and cultural organisations
 For more information contact your regional Bridge
The Bridge organisations
East of England:
East Midlands:
Norfolk and Norwich Festival
http://bit.ly/ZyhE0B
Royal Opera House
http://bit.ly/11bZYDe
The Mighty Creatives
http://bit.ly/19t3u2C
The Bridge organisations
London: A New Direction
http://bit.ly/10EpHro
North East: The Sage Gateshead
http://bit.ly/1431Wu0
North West: Curious Minds
http://bit.ly/ZykC5h
The Bridge organisations
South East: Artswork
http://bit.ly/16vU9IG
South West: RIO
http://bit.ly/16vUkUp
West Midlands: Arts Connect
http://bit.ly/1aIjjR4
Yorkshire: Cape UK
http://bit.ly/14eycXx
Bridge library leads:
East of England:
Norfolk and Norwich Festival - Joff Whitten - joff@nnfestival.org.uk
Royal Opera House – Kelly Lean - kelly.lean@roh.org.uk
East Midlands:
The Mighty Creatives – Mary Mills - mary@themightycreatives.com
London:
A New Direction – John Mahon - john.McMahon@anewdirection.org.uk
North East:
The Sage Gateshead – Dawn Williams - dawn.williams@thesagegateshead.org
North West:
Curious Minds – Caz Brader - Caz.Brader@curiousminds.org.uk
South East:
Artswork – Ruth Taylor - ruth@artswork.org,uk
South West:
RIO – Tamzyn Smith - tamzyn.smith@realideas.org
West Midlands:
Arts Connect – Susan Goodwin - Susan.Goodwin@wlv.ac.uk
Yorkshire:
Cape UK - Jael Edwards - Jael.edwards@capeuk.org