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Impactful Starts: Donate to win a framed artwork!

Thu 24th July 2025

Make a donation to be automatically entered into our prize draw to win one of three framed artworks!

Impact Arts is offering these prizes as part of our new fundraising campaign for Impactful Starts, our creative employability programme for young people aged 16–24 in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

This programme provides a safe, creative space where young people can build confidence, make friends, and explore art activities. Through creative and alternative learning, they also gain skills, qualifications, and support with their next steps.

Impactful Starts is especially suitable for participants who have: experienced trauma, are new to Scotland, are LGBTQI+, are neurodivergent, or have disabilities.

Sadly, this programme is facing a significant funding shortfall. We urgently need to raise £10,000 to keep Impactful Starts running in Glasgow and Edinburgh — and ensure no young person is left behind 💖

Why donate to Impactful Starts?

Not every young person thrives in a traditional classroom. Some face challenges like anxiety or bullying and leave school still needing help with their next steps.

Without an arts-based organisation bridging the gap, we won’t reach the young people who are more likely to fall through the cracks. We want to make sure no young person is left behind.

Impactful Starts offers something different: a safe, creative space where young people aged 16-24 can build their confidence, develop new skills, gain qualifications, make friends, and progress into further education, training, or employment.

Through art and creativity, we help them reimagine what’s possible for their future.

The positive impact of our work with young people

Impactful Starts is changing lives. Our participants have the opportunity to take part in creative activities like painting, drawing, and filmmaking; go on field trips; and contribute to local community art projects – all while building life and work skills they can take into adulthood.

Of the young people who took part in our Impactful Starts programmes in 2024-25:

  • 90% gained accreditations
  • 71% went onto further education, training, or employment
  • 87% reported an improvement in their mental health
  • 94% grew in confidence
  • 88% built resilience and better coping skills
  • 90% became more engaged in learning
  • 94% improved their employability skills

“This has really helped me feel less isolated and has kickstarted a lot of my creative ideas.” – Previous participant

How you can help

There are lots of ways you can support young people to thrive through creativity – whether it’s donating, fundraising, or spreading the word.

Ways to support Impactful Starts 🎨

There are lots of ways you can support young people to thrive through creativity – whether it’s donating, fundraising, or spreading the word.

  • Donate today and pay it forward for a young person interested in art – and be automatically entered into our prize draw!
  • Fundraise for Impact Arts at the Edinburgh Kiltwalk on September 14 – check out our fundraising guide to learn more
  • Sign up to Easyfundraising and make free donations to Impact Arts when you shop online: find out more
  • Help us spread the word with people you know who care about Scotland’s young people

Your support will help us give more young people the creative outlet they need to express themselves and get support towards a positive destination. 

Art changes lives. Change a young person’s life by making a donation

We need your support to secure the future of Impactful Starts.

Please donate by August 31 to help young people in Glasgow and Edinburgh build bright futures – and you’ll be in with the chance to win a framed artwork!

Donate today

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.  

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