The process creates its own talent pool: many participants like to pass on their new-found skills and confidence by becoming peer mentors and project leaders.
Here, just about anything goes simply because anything is possible. Through music, arts, media, cooking, and other creative projects, Soft Touch’s skilled team encourage young people to express themselves – and to do it so well others might even be prepared to pay for their output.
Soft Touch nurtures talent in people who would otherwise be held back by their history, their disabilities, or their mental health. Through collaborations with Leicester’s businesses, charities, and other arts and youth organisations, Soft Touch develops bold and memorable projects that let participants tap into the city’s lively flow of ideas. It’s an outlet for unfettered inventiveness in a city that thrives on it.
In a city in which 31,000 young people live in poverty, Soft Touch broadens life experiences and offers a route to a brighter future. Over the years it’s given thousands of young people a chance to work on hundreds of creative projects. It passes on new skills, encourages experimentation, and builds self-belief; it makes the city more colourful and more caring.
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in love with Soft Touch “ I…justthefellamount of respect you get as a producer and the amount of respect that you get back, and how close we all came as a family. Muzi participant
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Soft Touch Arts is the inviting, let’s-give-it-a-go space that releases the untapped potential of Leicester’s disadvantaged young people.