Creating arts and opportunities with unaccompanied children and young people across Scotland

Every year, children and young people arrive in Scotland unaccompanied and in need of refugee protection. We partner with the Scottish Guardianship Service to organise regular arts activities, workshops, residentials and projects with these young people.

This includes:

• A fortnightly arts and cultural participation group for the young people to attend, delivering a range of arts and cultural activities, from ceramics to dance, from puppet making to photography. Ideas for these workshops are driven by the young people themselves.
• Residential arts and physical activity weekends, these are organised in partnership with other charities who support young people’s emotional and physical well being.
• An extended arts project around Refugee Week where the young people create an event that celebrates them and gives them a platform for their voices and opinions to be heard.

Our aim is to provide accessible and exciting arts activities for and with young people, so they can express their creativity, create community, and develop confidence as they adapt to their new lives in Scotland. The young people we work with give us regular feedback and suggestions for new activities, interesting projects and artists.

We work with lots of different artists and we are always looking to connect with new creatives, especially those with care experience or experience of seeking asylum. If you have a project you think we should know about please contact us.