Youth Arts Toolkit – Where do I Start

February 13, 2018

Capturing Magic: A Tool for Evaluating Outcomes in Youth Arts Projects

This resource will help you measure the outcomes of your youth arts project. This set of scales is specially designed to provide a series of observable behaviours in a group of young people taking part in an arts project.

August 8, 2016

You got a grant from the Arts Office? How do I get one of those? – Writing the application.

In the last blog we looked at choosing the right project to apply for, now onto the application form. Here are just some general tips for […]
July 27, 2016

You got a grant from the Arts Office? How do I get one of those? – Choosing the right project.

Every local authority has an Arts Office and they all run a yearly grant scheme. The details of all of these schemes vary from Arts Office […]
June 28, 2016

Where do I start with getting a Youth Exchange going?

So, maybe you’ve heard about Erasmus+ and think international activities would be a good thing for you and your youth group to get involved in. Or […]
June 15, 2016

Getting International Arts in Action with Erasmus+!

This year we in Léargas celebrate 30 years of managing international programmes on behalf of the European Commission and the Irish Government, including the Erasmus+ Youth […]
January 18, 2016

My Culture, My London

In a recent speech to a delegation of London teachers, our Chair Professor Maggie Atkinson, former Children’s Commissioner for England, talked about culture being ‘done unto’ […]
March 31, 2015

Why Deliver Arts Programmes for Young People? A Community Development Worker’s Perspective

Why deliver Arts Programmes for young people? For this series of blogs, we decided to ask some experienced youth workers, who are at the coal face […]
November 20, 2014

ReCreate – Creativity Through ReUse

Where can you find one hundred egg boxes… or a thousand buttons… or any of the other things that show up on the list of requirements […]
October 30, 2014

International Collaboration

In this our first blog from Fresh Film Festival, Festival Manager, Ciarda Tobin, discusses the value of international collaboration and exchange in celebrating and developing the […]