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Create Arts

Impact Report 2024-25

Create Arts is a UK charity founded in 2003, delivering free creative arts workshops — music, visual arts, dance, drama, writing and film — to society's most disadvantaged and vulnerable people. In 2024/25 the charity reached 2,146 participants across 98 projects and 1,315 workshops, with 61% eligible for free school meals and 46% with special educational needs or disabilities. Create also partnered with The Reading Agency to deliver the Summer Reading Challenge to 581,301 children across 3,130 library branches. Income grew to £1.57 million in 2024/25.

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📋About

One-to-one and group creative arts workshops for children in care, disabled children and adults, young psychiatric hospital patients, young and adult carers, older people, prisoners, young refugees and survivors of modern slavery; Nurturing Talent artist development programme; Summer Reading Challenge partnership

📊Key Metrics

2,146 disadvantaged and vulnerable participants supported across 98 projects and 1,315 creative arts workshops in 2024/25 Key Metric 1
581,301 children reached as official charity partner of the Summer Reading Challenge across 3,130 library branches Key Metric 2
64 professional artists delivered 23,504 hours of contact; 152 volunteers donated 855 hours Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 98% of respondents said Create had a substantial or exceptional impact on quality of life; 95% on diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Create Week campaign reached over 830,000 people online; 21st anniversary gala dinner raised £56,043
  • 47,921 participants and 15,809 workshops delivered since founding in 2003; 132 awards won since 2012 including 7 Koestler Awards in 2024/25

📍Geography

UK-Wide

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