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Artskills began in January 1995, as one project of a new charitable company, Liverpool Social Partnership in Drugs Prevention Limited (LSP). It was a response to local research by various organisations, which broadly called for projects to address the needs of unemployed young people; offering arts training, coupled with confidence building and support in progression to further education, training and work. It received funding from the Home Office to develop a new approach to work with young unemployed people who were at risk of drugs misuse and then pilot funding from the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB – Dingle and Speke Garston area partnerships). Matching this with Pathways European Social Fund (ESF) it ran arts and key skills training programmes from 1996 to 1999. Drawing cash and ‘in kind’ donations from a variety of sources, including an IBM Community Connections Award, significant value was added to the core revenue grants. The new ‘Artskills model’ was highly effective – meeting or exceeding its contracted ‘outputs’ and leading to very positive outcomes for its beneficiaries – the project became ‘pivotal’ to both partnerships, by 1997. |
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