Here at Impact Arts we consider employability to be a key aspiration and work closely with other organizations to ensure that our programme participants are signposted towards better employment prospects. In addition we participate in Glasgow City Council’s Education Services Determined to Succeed work experience scheme and employ certain staff through the Department of Work and Pensions’ Future Jobs Fund initiative.
Our flagship programmes all have a strong emphasis on improving the employability of participants. This is particularly important for our priority target group of 14-19 year olds. We recognize that improving self-confidence, communication and core skills for this group is significant. However, as an arts organization and a social enterprise we can offer even more than that, helping to develop creative and craft-based skills within an enterprising framework so that the young people can experience for themselves the skills they require to run or participate in a business.
Gallery 37, Creative Pathways and their enterprising course elements, Eco-Chic Fashion Freak and Home are important programmes in this respect, although other projects and programmes that we run, including Fab Pad, are inherently designed to improve self-confidence and feelings of self-worth and this also contributes towards a person’s employment prospects.
Follow the links on the right to read about some of these projects.
