Nici West Voice Team

Jamie Reid shared his experience of completing Gold Arts Award during the challenges of 2020 lockdown. He says of his Arts Award: "Overall I found it an enjoyable experience as I was able to explore the arts industry in greater depth than I had previously."

Maddie Hinchliff shares her Gold Arts Award journey with us. She explored musical theatre at The King’s School in Worcester and has completed her Bronze, Silver and Gold, and impressively, completed her Gold during lockdown 2020.

Amy Carter has completed her Gold Arts Award over 2020 battling the issues of lockdown and having to complete a portfolio online. Find out about how Amy handled these challenges and what she did for her Arts Award. 

Hattie Hignell did her Gold Arts Award around 8 years ago and now works as a Senior Print Artist for a children's retailer. We catch up with Hattie to celebrate Arts Award 15th birthday. 

We chat to Jess Johnson who achieved her Arts Award 10 years back and is now pursuing her dream to be a novelist, to celebrate Arts Award's 15th birthday. 

Arts Award has been supporting the development of creativity and leadership skills for all young people for 15 years. Arts Award has championed creativity, nurtured talent and offered insights into the arts world, together with a taste of creative careers. Across the UK there are over 4,000 centres and an impressive 563,973 awards achieved. That's a LOT of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Explore and Discover Arts Awards over the years!

Tom Spence did his Arts Awards in the early days! He tells us about developing as a composer and his work with Skimstone Arts in Newcastle to celebrate Arts Award 15th birthday. 

Phoebe Hill is the Operations and Events Manager for a charity-run community centre and designed sets, costumes and puppets for the theatre industry. She completed her Gold Arts Award remotely back in 2011.

The talented Marsela with be delivering an exclusive performance for Voice magazine on Instagram and demonstrating how to take a cover song and make it your own. This is the final session in our Artist Workshop series funded by the Arts Council England. 

Watch former Trinity College London student, Lola Warman, perform the drums live on Instagram and demonstrate how to play for different genres. This is the penultimate session in our Artist Workshop series funded by the Arts Council England. 

Bhavesh Jadva was one of the founder editors of Voice, when doing his Arts Award way back when.  He tells us what happened next…

Seb Pedder shares his experience of writing a novella on the slave trader for his Silver Arts Award.