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The Art Room has been shown to be very successful in providing the support needed to help young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties engage better at school. This provides important lessons for learning and behaviour support units in schools and Pupil Referral Units. Its significance has been recognised by several charitable foundations, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Omega Foundation, which funded the evaluation, and the DfES Innovation Unit which gave a grant in 2005 for dissemination.
The Art Room’s main difficulty is financial. It operates for three full days each week in term time, with financial constraints preventing this being extended to a fourth day. The fact that the work does not fit neatly into any one category - of health, education, or youth offending - and its preventative nature has made it difficult to access secure, long-term funding.
The Art Room is a charity which, while amazingly successful in its fundraising, needs a more secure income base. We continue to work at achieving financial security so that we can continue this innovative and important work to support some of the most challenging young people in our society.