Arts Award

The Arts Award inspires young people from 5 - 25 to develop their leadership and creativity skills and is designed to be creative, accessible and flexible.

We run Arts Award at all levels, from Discover through to Gold,  using a wide range of our collections as inspiration, and have been named a Trinity Champion Centre since 2021 for our delivery of Arts Award. The emphasis in Arts Award is on participation rather than previous experience and is ideal for any young people who want to explore or learn new creative skills of any description, not only visual arts, but music, creative writing and drama. Read more about our current and past programmes below.

Arts All Around

A Gold Arts Award programme running in partnership with University of Stirling Art Collection from June 2023 - May 2024.

The Arts Award in Craigmillar Library

We run a number of Arts Award programmes in partnership with Craigmillar Library.

Past Programmes

Read about our previous Arts Award programmes.

If you are a young person, school, charity, community group, teacher or parent looking to find out more about how we could support your Arts Award journey, please don't hesitate to email Laura, our Engagement Officer (Communities) on l.beattie@ed.ac.uk.