Gold Award

• Qualification level: Level 3 Award (RQF, with 16 UCAS points)
• Work as an artist, extending and developing their own practice gaining experience in a new art form or genre. Develop leadership skills through planning and implementing an extensive creative project.
• Open to anyone aged 11 to 25 (designed for ages 16+)

Gold Arts Award is a young person-led qualification that encourages creativity and independent learning. It challenges young people to develop their arts practice, lead an arts project, investigate topical arts issues and get involved in the arts world. 

The Gold Award is made up of two units:

Unit 1: Personal arts development

•   extending their arts practice, experiencing another art form and creating new work
  ●    actively exploring the arts world through placements, volunteering, training and research
  ●    reviewing arts events and researching artists or craftspeople and their careers
  ●    researching and making the case for an arts issue

Unit 2: Leadership of an arts project

•   planning a project, identifying aims and outcomes
  ●    organising people and resources
  ●    delivering the project – including a public showing – and managing its effectiveness
  ●    reviewing their leadership development, including collecting and evaluating feedback from participants, audience members and more