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Brand new Artistic Opportunity for young people in Cheshire East

The next part of the brilliant Spare Parts programme is now launching with a fantastic creative opportunity for young people in Cheshire East. We are looking for emerging visual artists with an interest in drawing and illustration. If this sounds like you then please register to get involved!

Youth Theatres showcase their work online

As we make our way towards the end of another term and another school year, our groups are getting ready t share the work hat they have produced during this challenging year. Upton Youth Theatre are sharing an episodic filmed series entitled 'The Voyages of Serenity' on Youtube which can be seen here.
Malpas Young Actors have shared their 'Escape Room' drama, created in the crossover between online sessions and returning to live work in the Spring.
Our Sandbach Youth Theatre will be sharing their work on the 'Positive Stories for Negative Times' project before the end of term so stay tuned our social feeds for that and for more brilliant work.
Since our shows aren't quite live in the room yet and we can't raise our usual donations through ticket prices, we are asking that viewers help us our by donating to our current fundraiser at this link. Treat it as the virtual collection that we would run at any normal end of term show.

Choose Minerva Arts as your local Co-op charity

Minerva Arts is part of the Co-op Local Community Fund. This means that every time Co-op members buy
selected Co-op branded products, 2p for every pound spent goes to you and they give the same to support organisations like us. All you need to do is sign up to be a Co-op member costing only £1, select Minerva Arts as the cause you wish to support and then whenever you shop you will be giving us your support. This funding will not only help support our projects, but additionally create the best experiences for everyone involved. More information about how to sign up can be found here: Co-op - Local causes - Co-op

Kickstart with Minerva!

Minerva Arts are delighted to be offering a placement to a young person within the Kickstart scheme. With the support of Cheshire West Voluntary Action, in the next few months we will be welcoming a new member to our team to be our Youth Theatre and Development Administration Assistant. To find out more about this piece of news, please visit our Work Experience and Volunteering page.

Minerva launches Virtual Work Experience

Throughout 2020 we offered a range of virtual work experience placements to Year 10 and Year 12 students and our doors remain open to continue doing this throughout 2021.
If you are a Year 10 student, in Further Education or a Level 5 university student and you have missed out on a work experience placement this year because of the COVID-19 crisis, get in touch and we will organisae a virtual placement for you. There is more info on our Work Experience and Volunteering page and you can get in touch to start a conversation.

New Youth Theatre Case Study

This year, we were grateful to be supported by Sanctuary Housing to run our Lache Youth Theatre group. As part of their support to us, they requested that we send them a case study after the year of funding had completed to help share with them the impact that their funding was having on the young people and the community in Lache. Jude got to work and produced a brilliant write-up of the journey that one of our members has been on since she joined at the start of the pilot project back in September 2018. We loved it so much we thought we'd share it and you can now view it on out Tumblr blog right here.

Anniversary Celebrations!!

To celebrate our 10th Anniversary, Minerva Arts is held our first ever Fundraising Event on the 26th October at Tarvin Community Centre. We were supported excellently by the centre themselves, The Ottomen caterers, the Cestrian Community Players, Natalie Pierce Jones and Will Jones, our lovely former Youth Theatre member who's case study can still be read on our Youth Theatre page. Steph wrote a blog about the celebrations and the opportunity to reflect on the last ten years which can be read on our Tumblr here.

Fundraising

We have recently stepped up our efforts to diversify our revenue streams to support the huge expansion that we have had in 2018. Part of this is starting out in the world of online fundraising. We are now live on shopping platform Easyfundraising and donation platform Local Giving. You can find out more about our fundraising efforts and see how you can get involved and support our work on our brand new Fundraising page right here. We will be instigating several other new initiatives throughout 2021 so watch this space!