Our Impact

OUR HIGHLIGHTS

Publishing Angus the Bear’s First Day at School: Created with author Jen Hadfield and illustrator Katie Wilson based on members’ lived experiences, now distributed free to every primary school and library across the Highlands.

Supporting a visually impaired young person to assist Café Artysan’s in Inverness to develop accessible menus for visually impaired customers;

Supporting a group of Young People with learning disabilities campaign for an accessible bus stop near their rural learning centre at Cantraybridge.

Supporting young people with additional support needs at SNAP (Special Needs Action Project) to create their own Zines about things that are important to them

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Real-World Impact: The artwork highlighted that young people are actively using positive coping strategies—such as spending time outdoors, getting creative, exercising, and talking about their feelings—while recognizing the crucial support of friends and family.

Young people don’t lack resilience, they need support to strengthen what already works.

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Community Connections and Lasting Benefits: The initiative held four creative art drop-in sessions which drew 47 participants ranging in age from 3 to 70 years old, capturing local stories through low-barrier engagement and a community photo-walk. It supported 5 community groups over the course of the project, and created a paid role for a local young person with lived experience of accessibility challenges.

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Institutional Change: Young people at Cantraybridge College presented recommendations to staff which successfully lead to student-friendly changes in the college’s internal annual review process.