Inspire!
A creative learning programme for young parents and families, mixing arts projects with advice, guidance, education and career support.
INSPIRE! takes place every Friday 12-3pm at 27 Dingley Place EC1V 8BR
FREE ADMISSION | BOOKING ESSENTIAL:
(Zoom and/or face-to-face)
DM: @inspire_family (Instagram or Twitter)
Email: projects@allchangearts.org
Call/Text: 07904 328864
Inspire! is delivered by All Change working in partnership with youth and family support providers including Bright Start - Moreland Children’s Centre, Family Nurse Partnership, Islington Targeted Youth Support Team, SHP and Islington Childcare Trust.
Inspire! enables 25 young mothers and mums-to-be aged 14-25 to progress onto education and employment every year.
Over the past 16 years over 150 young parents have:- published a series of books; performed in major venues including Riot Offspring at Sadler’s Wells, the Shoreditch Festival and Kings Place; produced an award-winning film, premiered at Curzon Soho Cinema; designed and produced an information pack You, Me, Us for young parents in Islington; and in 2012 worked with Save the Children to develop their own creative campaign Look Twice Think Again to help change attitudes to young parents and to tackle Child Poverty.
Young Parents participating in the programmes have gone on to achieve great success in Further and Higher Education, and in employment, improving their own and their children’s life chances significantly. 3 young parents have achieved degrees in Psychology, Film, and Community Arts Practice with Youth and Community Work. Parents have gone on to secure full time employment with major companies including NatWest Bank and Marks & Spencer; and in a range of professional roles including teaching-assistants in schools, youth workers, security staff, beauty therapists and many more. 15 young parents have gone on to work for All Change in a variety of paid and voluntary roles
Babes – a film created by young parents, won the national UK Film Council First Light, Best Documentary award in 2006. The film, about the experience of being a teenage parent, has been shown in festivals nationally and internationally; is used in schools PSHE education to promote discussion and awareness around teenage parenthood; and has been shown at conferences and viewed by local and national government teams involved in service delivery and policy making for young parents.
Photo by Tracey Fahy