Community arts charity Impact Arts is looking for a new Head of Development

Job Title: Head of Development

Salary: £40,000 – £46,000 dependent on experience

Location: The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF
Travel will be required to other locations where Impact Arts has a presence e.g. North Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire.

Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer

Responsible for: Development Manager (PT), 2 x Development & Fundraising Officers, Evaluation & Compliance Coordinator

Duration of contract: Permanent

Working hours: 37.5 per week

Closing date: 9am on Monday 2nd March 2026

Interview dates: Friday 6th March 2026. Interviews will take place at The Boardwalk in Glasgow

Expected start date: ASAP

See the job pack for full details

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Main Responsibilities

The Head of Development will play a key role in the Leadership Team, working alongside the CEO, Head of Operations and Head of Finance & Corporate Services to achieve the Strategic Goals as set out in Transforming Lives Through the Arts, our Strategic Plan 2023-28. This is a results-driven role focused on delivering measurable and sustainable income growth, while managing and inspiring a high-performing team.

They will contribute to the strategic leadership at Impact Arts promoting the vision and values and representing Impact Arts across networks in the arts, social enterprise, public, private and voluntary sector.

They will lead the development and evaluation of Impact Arts’ fundraising and other associated strategies (e.g. stakeholder engagement, donations and corporate engagement) to ensure, through diverse and sustainable income streams that the organisation can deliver on its strategic goal “Sustainable: Build a secure future for Impact Arts through financial sustainability”.

  • Leadership
  • Income Generation
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Impact & Evaluation

Person Specification

Impact Arts is looking for people with the following qualities, experience, knowledge and
competencies.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 3 years’ management experience in a public, third sector or private CSR role
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in leading and managing a staff team
  • Proven experience in developing and managing partnerships, establishing credibility with relevant (including senior) contacts and working through fundable solutions for sole/joint applications.
  • Experience of securing significant levels of funding through tenders, grants, funds and/ or donations
  • Networks across the public and third sectors with specific knowledge of key partners and funders across the following themes: employability, education, mental health, homelessness, regeneration & culture
  • Experience in preparing multi-year/ multi-location funding bids as sole proposer or member of a consortium. Experience in generating total cost recovery budgets for funding bids.

Desirable:

  • Senior Fundraising experience
  • Professional qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. fundraising or management
  • Experience in generating total cost recovery budgets for funding bids
  • Experience in generating unrestricted and/or capital funding

Personal Skills & Qualities

  • Ability to lead a team effectively and motivate others
  • Ability to build and maintain rapport internally and with existing and new partners
  • Strong positive and resilient attitude and an ability to find creative and flexible solutions.
  • Resilience when faced with a high workload, deadlines or changing situations
  • Ability to think strategically and imaginatively
  • Effective time management and ability to meet deadlines
  • Ability to prioritise and delegate tasks
  • Self-motivated and able to act on own initiative, solving problems
  • Approachable and empathetic able to act as ambassador for Impact Arts, at ease with people from a wide variety of backgrounds

How to apply

The deadline for applications is Monday, 2nd March 2026, at 9am. Please read the job pack in full and submit your completed application in an email to jobs@impactarts.co.uk by this deadline. (Please note we do not accept CVs.)

Good luck!

Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

Impact Arts has appointed two Youth Trustees to join our Board. We’re thrilled to welcome Humna Bukhari and Rachel Maclean.

As an arts charity delivering life-changing creative programmes to people of all ages, including children and young people, it’s important to us to ensure the voices of young people are central to our governance and strategy.

We are committed to building a Board that reflects the diversity of the people and communities that we serve and we value the benefit of having different experiences and points of view amongst our Trustees.

We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our Board and specifically to put young people at the heart of our organisational decision-making. This aligns with the re-establishment of the Sketchy Youths, our Youth Steering Group.

Get to know our new Youth Trustees!

Humna Bukhari

Why did you want to join Impact Arts Board as a Youth Trustee?

After interning for Impact Arts, I felt a need to join their mission in one way or another.

The way Impact Arts does things is inclusive, bold and, well, impactful! I’d love nothing more to be a part of that once again.

Tell us more about yourself and your experience prior to joining Impact Arts as a Trustee.

I am a psychology graduate who is currently working as a carer. Aside from that, I make and sell art as a hobby.

What do you hope to achieve as a Youth Trustee for Impact Arts?

I learned so much during my time, and am grateful to have the chance to keep that going!

Rachel Maclean

Why did you want to join Impact Arts Board as a Youth Trustee?

I’ve followed along with Impact Arts and the projects for a while now, having taken part in a similar project myself before coming to university. Access to free creative arts projects gave me the push to go and study design further. Without access to these projects, I would have never attended university, which has opened up so many doors for me and allowed me to pursue design professionally, which is something I never thought I would do.

I wanted to join the Board with the hope that I would be able to share my opinions and perspective, which hopefully will help improve the representation of young people, especially young people who rely on free creative arts projects as a gateway, whether that’s to go on to study further, find employment, or just to foster creativity.

I really believe that being creative and getting involved in the arts can make a massive difference to your life, from the positive effects arts engagement can have on your mental health and wellbeing to the transferable skills that can be gained through engagement in creativity and creative projects.

Tell us more about yourself and your experience prior to joining Impact Arts as a Trustee.

I’m currently a graphic design student at Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, hoping to pursue print design and photography. I love anything to do with art and design, and I’m a big outdoors person. I spent a lot of time when I was younger doing environmental volunteering, which gave me a massive love and appreciation for the environment and a strong interest in conservation, something that has stayed with me and influenced the way that I work within design.

I’ve worked within fundraising and social media within university recently as part of the Dundee University Sign Language Society, having been our social media coordinator for two years now, and fundraising coordinator for a year!

I originally joined the society to learn basic BSL and gain more awareness about D/deaf culture. But over the last few years, I’ve been able to learn about fundraising, raising money for charity, social media, and, most importantly, got to meet and work with amazing charities and people within the D/deaf community.

What do you hope to achieve as a Youth Trustee for Impact Arts?

I hope that, alongside Humna, I will be able to provide a different and unique opinion to the Board and be able to bring a different perspective, one which will hopefully be valuable and aligned with other young people involved in Impact Arts. I want to listen to those participating in projects and the people around me within the charity, making sure I understand their perspective and opinion, so I can better communicate this at a Board level.

I hope to make sure that young people within projects feel listened to, valued, and know that their opinions and experiences within the charity are important and that they are being communicated at a Board level. Nothing is more valuable than a lived experience, and the people who take part in projects have the most perspective and knowledge to give, and this will be what I focus on within my time on the Board. 

Thank you to Rachel and Humna for sharing your stories. The whole team at Impact Arts is thrilled to have you both onboard.

Impact Arts is a leading arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering life-changing creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

For the first time, Scottish arts charity Impact Arts is sharing a manifesto, urging Scotland’s leaders to invest in art programmes as a way to tackle inequality and poverty.

We’re advocating for the people we support and amplifying their voices.

Impact Through Art: Tackling Inequality & Poverty in Scotland

A Manifesto by Impact Arts

Our Vision: A Scotland where people and communities benefit from life-transforming creativity that tackles inequalities and addresses poverty.

Our Ask: Impact Arts urges Scotland’s leaders to invest in life-changing arts-based and creative approaches which can build a more inclusive, stronger, and imaginative society able to address societal inequalities and poverty.

WELLBEING

1) Recognise Creative Engagement as a Public Health Approach12

Give equal recognition to participation in the arts alongside traditionally recognised health improvement approaches such as participation in sports and physical activity and healthy eating. Scientific evidence demonstrates the physical and mental benefits for all ages and communities including those who experience poverty and inequality from taking part in creative activities.

This upholds Article 31 of the UNCRC which recognises children’s rights to a cultural and artistic life.

2) Improve Access to Creative Preventative Mental Health Approaches34

Recognise that engagement in quality creative activities promotes wellbeing and improves mental health.5

Creative approaches address the mental health crisis through early intervention, preventing escalation of mental health problems and aiding recovery.

Long-term community-based interventions support mental and physical health, reduce loneliness and improve social connections.

3) Ensure Access to Arts-Based Therapies for Children Facing Trauma and Poverty6

Promote arts-based therapies as a core element of individual school learning plans for children who have experience of trauma, poverty and inequality.

Evidence from Impact Arts’ Primary School Art Therapy programme shows measurable improvements in confidence and self-esteem, resilience and coping strategies.

Younger children often struggle to articulate trauma; creative therapies offer accessible, effective alternatives to traditional counselling.

4) Embed Creative, Flexible and Person-Centred Approaches into Whole Family Wellbeing

Recognise that each family’s experience is unique, and that creative and responsive approaches to needs are highly effective.

Impact Arts’ experience of delivering whole family support demonstrates that a flexible, person-centred, partnership approach achieves the greatest impact on family wellbeing.

5) Support Creative Ageing to Bring Joy to Later Years7

Ensure that all older people, including those living in poverty, have access to creative activities, which reduce isolation and improve wellbeing.

Through academic research, Craft Café has demonstrated the health and social benefits of long term, regular engagement in creative activity and group projects for older people both in community and care home settings.

LIFE CHANCES

6) Increase Access to Quality Arts-Based Education & Employment Programmes89

Increase availability of creative service delivery and innovative approaches to educational attainment and employability.

Creative methodologies are successful in engaging people and communities who are racialised and marginalised, especially where other interventions have failed.

Creative engagement is effective in giving people a voice and encouraging self-expression, delivered out with traditional classroom settings and through practical hands-on learning techniques.

7) Support Neurodiverse Young People Through Quality Arts & Creativity Projects1011

Champion the impact of quality arts-based projects in supporting neurodiverse young people. Quality creative arts based projects can significantly improve emotional regulation, concentration, confidence, and social connection for autistic and ADHD young people.

Impact Arts’ creative youth projects demonstrate that neurodiverse young people who struggle in traditional learning environments engage more consistently and are better able to express themselves and to communicate their thoughts and ideas.

8) Promote Creative Home-Making as Key to Sustaining Tenancies & Preventing Homelessness12

Prioritise engagement of new tenants in creative home making projects to sustain tenancies and prevent homelessness.

Evidence from Impact Arts’ Make It Your Own model demonstrates that creative home-making empowers tenants and supports tenancy sustainment through creative personalisation of homes, helping to prevent homelessness.

CONNECTED COMMUNITIES

9) Celebrate Creative Placemaking13

Prioritise arts in regeneration strategies, recognising it as the catalyst for enlivening our towns and communities.

Creativity is a powerful methodology for engaging diverse communities and under heard voices, bringing communities together, and instigating future community regeneration projects.

Impact Arts urges Scotland’s leaders to embed creativity across public policy. By investing in arts-based and creative approaches, we can build a more inclusive, stronger, and imaginative society.

“This manifesto sets out a clear vision for a Scotland where creativity is recognised as essential to tackling inequality and poverty. It reflects the voices and experiences of the people and communities we work with every day who too often feel left behind. For decades, Impact Arts has seen first hand how arts-based approaches transform their lives through improving wellbeing, strengthening communities, and developing life chances. Ahead of the 2026 Scottish elections, we urge decision makers to recognise the arts as a vital part of building a fairer, healthier, and more connected Scotland.” – Fiona Doring, CEO of Impact Arts

Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

References

  1. CultureAct — Culture Counts Culture Counts call upon all political parties to support a Culture Act in the next Scottish Parliament  ↩︎
  2. ARTS CULTURE HEALTH WELLBEING SCOTLAND ↩︎
  3. VHS Manifesto for Health Creation Promoting a prevention centred health system ↩︎
  4. Professor Daisy Fancourt speaks at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Creative Health – SBRG ↩︎
  5. Arts, creative health and wellbeing – National Academy for Social Prescribing | NASP ↩︎
  6. 145afa_187b60c269f4497fbe1af42447ec67a9.pdf A wider range of services, open to all children and young people, including appropriate non-clinical supports. ↩︎
  7. Social isolation and loneliness: Recovering our Connections 2023 to 2026 – gov.scot ↩︎
  8. Creative | My World of Work ↩︎
  9. No One Left Behind: employability strategic plan 2024 to 2027 – gov.scot provides flexible and person-centred support. ↩︎
  10. Advocacy Framework — Children’s and Youth Arts Advocacy ↩︎
  11. Seizing The Moment | Scottish Autism Improve support for autistic learners and an end to informal exclusions in education. ↩︎
  12. Manifesto-30102525.pdf Everyone Home Collective, Housing Justice Lack of prevention focus to be tackled. ↩︎
  13. SURF-2026-Manifesto-Phase-One-Research.pdf  Sustainable funding and removing invisible barriers. ↩︎

Impact Arts is delighted to have received new funding to support our work with whole family wellbeing in our parent-and-child therapeutic art programme Art Wise and our work with young people in our creative employability programmes.

Art Wise Falkirk: Falkirk Council

A huge thank you to Falkirk Council for their 100% funding of Art Wise in Falkirk, totaling £25,600.

This continuation of funding will allow us to continue our evidence-based and innovative assets-based approach to whole family wellbeing, focussing on the needs of individuals as well as the other family members, meeting local priorities in and around Falkirk. The programme seeks to support the whole family through an arts-based learning approach to parenting children who have experienced trauma, poor mental health, social difficulties and/or behavioural difficulties.

In Art Wise, we focus on removing barriers to accessing services, and improving parents/carers mental health. With this funding, we will continue to deliver a combination of parent-only sessions, whole-family sessions, alongside one-to-one family support, with participants attending for up to 8 weeks at a time.

One of the blocks will be delivered from One Parent Families Scotland premises in Maddiston.

Impactful Starts Edinburgh: National Lottery Community Fund

We’d like to thank the National Lottery Community Fund for their generous contribution of £10,000 in youth employability funding towards Impactful Starts in Edinburgh.

NLCF funds community projects that help people connect, grow and build a better future. They focus on supporting people who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage, or discrimination. By 2030, they’ll share over £4 billion to create stronger, fairer communities across the UK.

Impactful Starts supports young people aged 16-24 years who are from deprived communities and at risk of long term unemployment. The programme helps improve their wellbeing and make a positive progression in life.

Community activities in this programme are tailored towards Edinburgh’s growth sectors of culture and tourism, for example previous projects created community murals, transformed community gardens, collaborated on creative projects in heritage spaces and created new signage/sculptures. This funding will enable us to support up to 30 young people to overcome individual barriers, connect with each other, build trusted relationships, identify progression opportunities, and set personal goals. We will support young people with disabilities, those who have poor mental health, those who are neurodivergent, or are new Scots.

Impactful Starts Glasgow: The Gosling Foundation & The Murgitroyd Foundation

A huge thank you also to The Gosling Foundation for their contribution of £5,000 and Impactful Starts in Glasgow.

This foundation funds units, establishments, and ships of the Royal Navy & Royal Marines as well as youth groups (e.g. Sea Cadets, Scouts, Girl Guides, performing arts).

In more good news for Impactful Starts in Glasgow, we’d like to thank The Murgitroyd Foundation for their contribution of £2,500 towards the project.

In the year January to December 2026, Impactful Starts will benefit around 72 young people aged 16-24 who are affected by poor life chances and at risk of anti-social behaviour. The project delivers 2 days a week in Edinburgh and 3 days a week in Glasgow, with one day at Kelvin College for Glasgow participants. During the course of the programme and with the support of a Wellbeing and Opportunities Worker, participants identify their barriers to progression, develop their core and soft skills, and co-create a personal activities plan which helps them to work towards achieving a positive destination.

We use creative engagement as a ‘hook’ from which to establish relationships of trust with young people. Once established, these relationships of trust provide an opportunity for young people to able to share their often-hidden feelings, vulnerabilities, goals and aspirations, enabling us to meet the expected outcomes and achieve transformational change.

The Wellbeing and Opportunities Workers provide employability support on a one-to-one basis, supporting young people to overcome individual barriers, identify progression opportunities, and set personal goals.

Our partner networks then provide opportunities for participants in further education, training and
volunteering, as well as options beyond education such as apprenticeships and self-employment, with many young people interested in the Creative Industries.

As always, a huge thank you to our funders, partners, and donors who make our work possible. Let’s continue to transform lives through creativity in Scotland.

Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

As part of our Impact Arts Annual Report 2024-25, we interviewed some members of our creative delivery team to bring you this new series: Artist Spotlight!

Meet Marta Palacz

Get to know Marta Palacz, Creative Lead at Impact Arts and multimedia artist with a passion for working with communities. Marta’s days are filled with everything from painting and printmaking to leading creative sessions.

We caught up with her to chat about her artistic practice, favourite projects, and the positive changes she sees in the people she works with.

Please note this interview was conducted in summer 2025.

Tell us about yourself. What are your specialisms as an artist and what type of projects do you work on at Impact Arts?

“I am currently the Creative Lead for the Cashback Hubs project in North Ayrshire, working with young people. In my personal practice, I am a multimedia artist working with a range of mediums on paintings, printmaking, drawing, and interactive conceptual works.

I am mainly focused on developing a series of portrait paintings with themes centered around mindfulness, attachment, and play in a studio space provided by OuterSpaces, a charity collaborating with artists to occupy empty commercial spaces.

I always keep a sketchbook on hand and try to document people and places around me.

I also lead interactive audio-visual sensory sessions with groups of children and adults with additional support needs with the charity Soundplay Projects.”

What was your favourite project that you worked on during the year 24-25 – and why?

“Currently, I am really enjoying the CashBack Summer programme. I enjoy seeing creative responses to the participants’ environment, local heritage, and community. My favourite project I worked on in the year 2024-2025 was assisting with Art Therapy sessions.

Art Therapy offers a safe relaxed space where children can address difficult emotions and express themselves through creativity and play.

I enjoyed seeing participants process big life changes and challenges – with creativity. I learned a lot and it was very inspiring.”

What kinds of positive changes have you seen in participants on your projects?

“An increase in confidence and self-belief as participants make and create things they haven’t had a chance to make in the past and seeing people in the community make bonds they nourish and continue after projects end is very heartwarming and important.”

Hear directly from more of our multi-talented artists in the next instalment of Artist Spotlight.

Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

We’re delighted to share that The Boardwalk, Impact Arts’ social enterprise events venue, has been named Glasgow’s High Street Hero in the Scotland Loves Local Awards 2025!

Award judges heard how our Merchant City venue was enhancing the area and opening opportunities “by combining economic innovation, social enterprise and environmental responsibility.”

As we said in our nomination, “The Boardwalk is a powerful example of how creative spaces can drive inclusive regeneration and build a more enterprising, resilient community.”

The venue, on Brunswick Street, features a 180-capacity black box theatre, a variety of meeting rooms and rehearsal spaces for hire which include seven studios.

We play host to events ranging from performances and dance rehearsals to company team days and conferences, all with the aim of attracting people and helping to breathe new life into the area.

Impact Arts took over the building from Scottish Youth Theatre in 2023 and all proceeds from bookings go back into our creative programmes with people of all ages in some of Scotland’s most deprived communities.

Reacting to the High Street Hero award, Impact Arts Chief Executive Fiona Doring said:

“We are absolutely thrilled that The Boardwalk has been recognised as Glasgow’s High Street Hero. This recognition means a lot to everyone at Impact Arts. The Boardwalk has become a real home for creativity, a place where people come together to make, perform, learn, and share ideas. From hosting diverse performances, wide ranging meetings, workshops, and conferences to supporting young people into employment, The Boardwalk shows how creativity helps to build vibrant city centres.”

By offering affordable venue hire to artists, charities, and community groups, then reinvesting the profits, The Boardwalk directly contributes to the local economy while addressing social inequality.

Long-term tenants include disability arts organisations such as Solar Bear and Birds of Paradise.
Some of Impact Arts’ Glasgow programmes, run at The Boardwalk, include helping young people disengaged from school or out of work to gain qualifications, work experience, and support toward positive destinations through its creative arts and youth employability projects.

The Boardwalk also has a Step Up to Net Zero Action plan which includes working towards the elimination of single-use plastics.

Organised by Scotland’s Towns Partnership (STP), the Scotland Loves Local Awards recognise and reward all that’s great about the nation’s towns and neighbourhoods and the work to ensure they become stronger and more sustainable.

STP Chief Officer Kimberley Guthrie said:

“Creativity and entrepreneurship so often work hand-in-hand when it comes to breathing fresh life into our communities. The Boardwalk is a great example of that. Impact Arts are keeping a fantastic venue alive while opening life-changing opportunities to people in communities who need them most. It’s innovative, community-focussed regeneration.”

Spearheaded by STP and supported by the Scottish Government, Scotland Loves Local is the movement encouraging people to create a better future for their community by choosing local.

Visit The Boardwalk website to learn more

Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

As part of our Impact Arts Annual Report 2024-25, we interviewed some members of our creative delivery team to bring you this new series: Artist Spotlight!

Meet Sean Pickering

Hear from one of our artists Sean on drag and cabaret, creative sewing, and the transformative power of art. From murder mysteries to community impact, Sean Pickering shares how performance and visual arts spark confidence and creativity across generations at Impact Arts.

Tell us about yourself. What are your specialisms as an artist and what type of projects do you work on at Impact Arts?

    “After my university degree in theatre studies, I took a side-step into the world of drag and cabaret. I teach a wide range of performance and visual art skills, but I’m definitely a fan of a good sewing project!

    Whether it’s curtains or costumes, seeing the satisfaction on our participants’ faces when they’ve mastered the sewing machine and created something robust with their own two hands is priceless.

    I’ve worked with a wide age range of people at Impact Arts, from adults and parents to teenagers and children.”

    What was your favourite project that you worked on during the year 24-25 – and why?

    “It would be too difficult to pick a favourite but I did love working with our young people from Impactful Starts on their Murder Mystery project.

    We used a variety of painting techniques, creative writing, and sewing skills, and we created miniature universes and characters that branched off in many different directions.”

    What kinds of positive changes have you seen in participants on your projects?

    “Being able to take a participant from the start of a project through to the end and seeing the change in their confidence and mood is incredible! It’s my favourite part of working here.

    One participant I worked with on Make It Your Own spoke about how learning to paint had given her life a purpose, stopped her feeling like the walls were closing in on her, and helped her become more active and social within the community.

    Sometimes you think you’re improving someone’s day maybe 10% or 15% but the reality often ends up being much more profound and impactful.”

    Hear directly from more of our multi-talented artists in the next instalment of Artist Spotlight.

    Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

    Get in the autumnal spirit and join us for Paint & Petals: Halloween Pumpkin Decorating!

    Decorate your own pumpkin with high-quality acrylic paint and beautiful pressed flowers and foliage. Enjoy tea, coffee, and cake while you create at this latest charity event by community arts charity, Impact Arts.

    • 11am-1pm on Saturday, October 25th
    • @ The Boardwalk, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow G1 1TF

    Come up with your own design or get tips from one of our talented professional artists and enjoy a relaxing autumnal craft activity.

    What’s included 

    • Pumpkins and all paints, petals, and materials are provided
    • Expert guidance on how to create your work of art 
    • 2 hours of relaxing painting
    • Tea, coffee, and cake!
    • Music to inspire your creativity energy
    • All the inspiration you need to explore your artistic side 
    • Your own painted and decorated pumpkin to take home in time for Halloween

    Have a great time for a good cause!

    100% of the proceeds raised through ticket sales will go to Impact Arts, an award-winning community arts charity transforming lives through creativity.

    Since 1994, Impact Arts has been tackling inequalities and addressing poverty by supporting children and people of all ages who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Help us continue to deliver life-changing creative programmes across Scotland.

    ❤️ Let’s make art and make a difference.

    £20 per ticket

    We can’t wait to see you at our Paint & Petals: Halloween Pumpkin Decorating event!

    Get your tickets

    Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.  

    Scottish community arts charity Impact Arts is delighted to receive funding to partner with The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow for a new project, Collections Creatives.  

    This project will involve a series of wellbeing-boosting and confidence-building creative art workshops for young people facing mental health issues. 

    Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) has awarded £67,810 to four museums through the Creative Minds Fund, thanks to support from The Baring Foundation. The funding will support museums to work alongside partner organisations to create engaging experiences for people facing mental health issues and social anxiety. 

    “At Impact Arts, we believe creativity is a powerful tool for improving wellbeing and building confidence. This collaboration with The Hunterian allows us to create a safe, inspiring space where young people can collaborate in new ways and share their voices through creativity when exploring the objects at The Hunterian. We’re thrilled to see how engaging with these incredible collections will spark ideas and empower the group to express themselves in new ways.” – Amanda Munro, Programme Manager at Impact Arts 

    The awarded projects will utilise museum collections to provide opportunities for participants to explore their creativity, learn new skills, express themselves, and become more socially connected.

    “Museums serve as essential community hubs, providing spaces for engagement, dialogue, and solace. I am delighted this funding will support them in addressing community needs and delivering this important work to individuals facing mental health issues.” – Lucy Casot, CEO of Museums Galleries Scotland 

    From this funding made available by Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow has received £18,020 for the Collections Creatives project. 

    The collaborative project between The Hunterian and Impact Arts will give young people the opportunity to engage with museum’s exhibits through a series of creative workshops. The group will share their thoughts and responses to the collections and use them as inspiration to produce their own artworks using a variety of creative techniques and mediums.  

    At the end of the project, the work created will be shared with museum visitors, allowing the young people to share their creativity with a wider audience. 

    “We are delighted to receive this award from the Creative Minds Fund, a collaboration between Museums Galleries Scotland and The Baring Foundation. The Hunterian is committed to becoming a more meaningful place for more diverse audiences. Working in partnership with Impact Arts, the Collections Creatives project will allow us to provide a creative and immersive learning and development opportunity for young people dealing with mental health issues.” – Professor Steph Scholten, Director of The Hunterian

    “The project will allow the young participants to engage deeply with our collections, to discover their creativity, and share their creative output with Hunterian audiences and the wider Glasgow community, as part of our ongoing programmes.” 

    Impact Arts would like to thank The Hunterian, Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), and The Baring Foundation for this exciting opportunity to transform lives through creativity.  

    Read more about the other funding awards on the MGS website 

    Images credit: The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow

    Impact Arts is a community arts charity based in Scotland. Since 1994, we’ve been delivering creative arts and support programmes for children, young people, adults, families, and older people who are facing disadvantages or barriers to progress in life. Our mission is to tackle inequalities, address poverty, and transform lives through art and creativity.