ARTS EMERGENCY
Arts Emergency is an award-winning mentoring charity and network whose mission is to help marginalised young people overcome barriers to participation and success in higher education and the creative and cultural industries. Comedian Josie Long and campaigner Neil Griffiths founded Arts Emergency in 2013 as a way to do something meaningful for the young people most affected by rising tuition fees and cuts to the arts.
From a grassroots project in Hackney with eight students and a handful of volunteers, Arts Emergency is now a community of 7,000 professionals from the creative and cultural industries who have pledged to pass on opportunities and support to less privileged young people. Since registered as a charity in 2013, the charity have provided expert mentors, work experience and free cultural activities to over 750 young people, with the vast majority going on to higher education, apprenticeships and employment in the cultural sector.
Arts Emergency currently work in London, Greater Manchester and Thanet in Kent but is working to sustainably expand across the country.
If you would like to support Arts Emergency beyond Toolbox Talks, for example by becoming a mentor, click the link below:
