Goldsmiths’ Firm companions with Nationwide Saturday Membership

The Goldsmiths’ Firm and the Nationwide Saturday Membership have introduced a three-year partnership geared toward making certain extra younger individuals throughout the UK have free entry to very important artistic training.

As headline topic companion of the Nationwide Saturday Membership Artwork&Design programme, the Goldsmiths’ Firm will play a key position in supporting the subsequent technology of creatives.

This 12 months, the Artwork&Design programme has enabled over 1,000 younger individuals to discover greater than 200 artistic disciplines at free Saturday Golf equipment in 49 areas throughout the UK.

A report collectively printed by organisations together with the Design Council and Design and Know-how Affiliation in the summertime of 2024, discovered that the variety of pupils finding out Design and Know-how at GCSE had fallen by 68% within the final decade following its elimination as a obligatory topic,

Lucy Kennedy, chief govt of the Nationwide Saturday Membership, stated: “We’re deeply grateful to the Goldsmiths’ Firm for his or her beneficiant assist of the Nationwide Saturday Membership’s Artwork&Design programme. Their dedication helps us present younger individuals throughout the UK with the area to discover their creativity, construct confidence, and picture new futures.

“Artwork and design spans each side of the artistic industries, and we’re particularly appreciative of companions just like the Goldsmiths’ Firm who recognise the long-term worth of nurturing artistic expertise, not just for their very own sector, however for society at giant.”

Annie Warburton, CEO and clerk of the Goldsmiths’ Firm stated: “Our partnership is rooted in a shared ambition to equip younger individuals with expertise and connections to thrive in future careers within the artistic industries, and past.

“We’re excited by the chance to assist the sustainability and development of the Artwork&Design programme over the subsequent three years, with the beneficiant assist of Goldsmiths’ Firm members – reaching extra younger individuals, in additional communities, throughout the UK. Collectively, we purpose to spark curiosity and encourage experimentation and exploration by nurturing artistic expertise and design considering – crafting careers for the subsequent technology.”

Based in 2009, the Nationwide Saturday Membership provides 13 to 16-year-olds a possibility to check topics without cost at their native college, faculty, and cultural establishment.