"I would like to live at The Art Room and have my friends over and eat and make things."
Student, age14
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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.
As with all charities, The Art Room’s main difficulty is financial. We work hard to raise the much needed funds to operate four days a week at Rose Hill, three days at Oxford School and 3 days at Orchard Meadow. Our aim is to secure funding so that we can open all three sites five days a week. Despite the financial constraints,our aim is to open five days a week on all sites.
The Art Room is a charity which, while 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.