About Art 4 Youth
We are a non profit community school (Art 4 Youth CIC, company number 10836303) who's mission is to deliver quality Art Education to the children of Norfolk.
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Parents and teachers have now been told that creative skills can be acquired elsewhere in a young person’s education, and that is what we are doing, creating that space.
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We are a collective of likeminded people who urgently want to raise the current standards in art education for the benefit of young people - and your child plays a powerful role in creating this change.
The arts have officially been side-lined in the national curriculum, and also in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). This decision was made despite the rising contribution from creative industries to the UK economy (in the billions), and despite the effort of art education to help communicate complex concepts through a different learning approach.
As part of our education program the students benefit from assembling an extensive portfolio suitable for further and higher education.
​Private tuition and after-school art clubs are expensive, their waiting lists are long, and the teachers are not always skilled, practicing artists. Norfolk is particularly limited in its offering, which makes our mission a priority.
We offer not only affordable supplementary Fine Art Education during the most important stages of a child’s developmental years - from 7 to 16 years, but all our courses and workshops are free for children and young people who are living in financially disadvantaged circumstances. Everything we do is thoughtfully shaped around a child's needs and full-time education to complement it – not complicate it.
We’re acting on ground-breaking guidance from the Warwick Report 2015 to take a “united and coherent approach that guarantees equal access for everyone to a rich cultural education and the opportunity to live a creative life”. For example, one of our core aims is to connect with local mainstream schools to improve Ofsted results by boosting their students’ performance in Art & Design GCSC exams.
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We are a non profit community school (Art 4 Youth CIC, company number 10836303) committed to constantly seeking out new ways to allow more children to join our classes whilst keeping the costs low; therefore any support is hugely appreciated.
The lack of art in the curriculum and funding cuts, combined with a growing reliance on digital screens and a home life with limited connection to creativity, means that our children are losing confidence in their own ability to simply draw. By the time they reach 18 and have to fill in university applications, collating a portfolio becomes a monstrous task with limited local support available. The result - a child’s lack of practical experience or engagement with their creative skillset severely stunts their potential and choice of paths in higher and further education. Many career paths require vital capabilities - basic drawing skills, visual thinking, conceptual skills.
Unlike other after-school activities, we ensure students are calm and focused in the classroom - your child will be studying Fine Art to foster their interest in future careers and enhance higher education options.
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The long-term assistance we offer includes assembling an extensive collection of your child’s work for pursuing further studies and higher education. All our courses are Art Portfolio Supported, and we offer specific GCSE, A-Level and Art Exam classes, catered to your child's needs to better support them in this crucial stage of their education.
Every student is supplied with high quality materials and equipment, and every teacher at our school is a practicing local artist, working well with children and young people, having undergone an enhanced DBS check.​​​​​​
