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Fab Pad Susan Aktemel Director

Fab Pad Susan Aktemel Director. Who is Impact Arts?. Independent community arts organisation Established 1994 23 full-time, up to 60 part time artists Two companies - trading and charitable Working across Scotland. Our Aims.

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Fab Pad Susan Aktemel Director

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  1. Fab Pad Susan AktemelDirector

  2. Who is Impact Arts? Independent community arts organisation Established 1994 23 full-time, up to 60 part time artists Two companies - trading and charitable Working across Scotland

  3. Our Aims • To use the arts to make a positive and lasting change to people’s lives • To combine social responsibility with sound and ethical business practice

  4. Helping young tenants make their house a home

  5. Fab Pad – what is it? An interior design project for homeless or vulnerable young people (16-35 years) which enables: Tenancy stabilisation Improve employability and access to opportunity Personal development through creativity

  6. Most of our Fab Pad participants have been homeless for a substantial length of time, repeatedly homeless or at risk of losing their home

  7. Levels of Involvemnt • Fab Pad Starter Book • Taster Courses • Main Individual / group programme • Delivery tailored to individual / project need

  8. How does it work? • Initial meeting with young person (and key worker) • Home visits with Interior designer & Fab Pad co-ordinator • Development of action plan related to flat and design ideas • Start Workshop programme

  9. What do we do? • Develop room design plans • Use of colour • Paint effects • Wall preparation, papering, painting, tiling • Creating soft furnishings • Mosaic and ceramic painting • Creating accessories • Use of lighting • Furniture renovation and transformation

  10. What Happens Next? • Allocation of shopping budget (currently £100 per person) • Development of personal action plan (employment and training related) • Ongoing home visits from interior designer and workshop participation • Progression on to employment, training, further education or other opportunities

  11. Does it work? In 2004/5 we worked with 190 clients across Glasgow and central Scotland. Approx 85% sustained their tenancy for at least 6 months after engaging with Fab Pad About 56% progressed on to education, training, volunteering or job opportunities

  12. Also… • Stability in home life and pride in home • Renewed family contact • Improved self esteem and aspiration • Making new friends and reduced isolation • Improved literacy & numeracy • Sense of achievement • Money management • Improved concentration • Keeping appointments and maintaining contact

  13. What the participants say: “It’s shown me a talent I never knew I had.” “It’s got me thinking about what I want to do – I’m looking at New Deal, and art training courses at college.”

  14. “It’s opened a new world for me – I’ve now started an art class at the unemployed resource centre.” “It came at a really good time for me and I have told a lot of my pals at Phoenix who are getting ready to get a flat.”

  15. What our partners say: “Working with Impact Arts we recognized that personal development was a key issue for young people at risk of tenancy breakdown and that Fab Pad could help them reshape their lives. North Ayrshire Fab Pad is delivering savings on void management to local landlords and the participants are learning new skills, developing confidence and taking up new opportunities. We are delighted.” Hugh Mc Ghee, Cunninghame Housing Association.

  16. Current Projects • Glasgow : North, Gorbals, Drumchapel, Greater Pollok, East End, Govan • East Dunbartonshire – Kirkintilloch • Stirling • North Ayrshire • West Dunbartonshire - Balloch

  17. Planned and developing projects • Glasgow – Castlemilk and Maryhill • Edinburgh • Dundee • South Ayrshire • North Lanarkshire • Aberdeen • Borders

  18. A creative solution to the problem of youth homelessness. contact: Fiona Doring – 0141 575 3004

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