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We are a charity that works with young people to develop their creativity, skills and confidence through arts and media projects.
Voice is our arts and culture magazine for young people.
Creative Pathways supports young people to explore the arts in their local area, develop arts reviewing skills and build their experience as trainees & contributors on Voice.
Youth Voice & Influence is our training programme supporting arts and youth organisations.
In 2022/23 Voice attracted 200,000 readers and supported 56 young arts reviewers and 20 trainee journalists.
Upstart has trained over 300 arts professionals to embed young people’s voice in their organisation.
‘I could not recommend this project highly enough – it should be available to ALL young people’
Voice Local Reviewer
‘Voice was a great opportunity to develop my skills as a writer and to work with editors’
Voice Trainee Journalist
‘A well facilitated and engaging training session – I left feeling good about youth voice’
Youth Voice course participant
Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature
We've been delighted to produce the Young Voices Symposium and facilitate an away day for their Youth Advisory Board.
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Warwickshire Young Trustee Development
Upstart have trained and supported over 20 young people to become young leaders on arts boards across Warwickshire.
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Connecting Notts: Behind the scenes of film
Our Nottingham Youth Cultural Partnership hosted a networking and information event about careers in film.
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Introducing our new Chair, Holly
Meet Holly Howe. An experienced journalist and communications professional, and the new chair of Upstart.
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Success with the Kickstart programme
Upstart supported 55 young people to develop employability skills over 18 months through the Kickstart programme.
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Young Arts Reviewers 2022
Caroline Bray, independent evaluator, reflects on the impact of Voice’s young arts reviewer programme. Throughout 2022 the Voice team worked...
Read MoreSome of our partners and commissioners
"Participating in Kickstart made a huge impact to my professional life as I have been able to find a new job with Sky Sports as a result of my time in this role"
Ali
Kickstarter"I was given a sense of confidence from the training day in my ability to bring what I have learned/done previously to be an asset on a board of trustees"
Participant
Young Trustee Development ProgrammeOur memberships and accreditations
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