As one of its objectives NADFAS aims to inspire young people with lasting enthusiasm for the arts and an awareness of our arts heritage and its conservation. To achieve this NADFAS encourages member societies to promote high quality visual arts activities for young people.

How are societies involved with Young Arts?
Societies work in two ways to provide opportunities for the young to gain practical experience of the arts.

Many support Young Arts Groups - junior societies with members aged 8 to 18, where groups run a programme of arts events throughout the year. Others arrange Young Arts Projects - arts related activities for an individual or a number of young people organised or sponsored by Societies.

Young Arts have teamed up with Church Recorders for an exciting new project. Church Trails for Children offers young people the opportunity to explore churches in their area and learn that there is more than meets the eye in many of these buildings!

Please contact the Area Young Arts Representative on e-mail for more information.

New Young Arts Group for East Surrey Area Nadfas

In January 2010 Chipstead DFAS became involved with starting the YA Group at St. Anne’s Primary School, Banstead. The YA group with help from members of Chipstead DFAS has begun with a flourish. The YA Group organiser has arranged for an art teacher to come into St. Anne’s School once a week to teach the children various different art techniques. It has been a very successful start and much enjoyed by all the participating young people.

BFree Café, Leatherhead – Cubist Portraits

In May 2009 Leatherhead Decorative and Fine Arts Society sponsored a Young Arts project at the Leatherhead Youth Café. The Café is a drop-in-after-school centre for young people aged between 11-16 years. Leatherhead DFAS funded a series of self portraits with a cubist theme using mixed media techniques. This was achieved in three afternoon workshops under the tutelage of visual artist Sadie James.

The young people who took part were very enthusiastic and enjoyed an element of art work that might not be available to them in school. As the workshops progressed other youngsters who had been sceptical about joining the group were intrigued to watch the daily progress.

The finished portraits have all been framed and hang on the wall in the BFree Café centre. The cubist style portrait project funded by Leatherhead DFAS was the launch for Xpress Creative Arts who are running other art projects at the BFree Youth Café. http://www.lyp-cafe.com

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS EXHIBITION - May 2008 Stephen Rawlings painted a triptych of himself, his father and his grandfather for his A level art portfolio whilst a pupil at The Howard of Effingham School in Surrey. This was seen at a Mole Valley NADFAS Young Arts Exhibition at Denbies in 2006 and subsequently chosen to be hung at the Mall Galleries in London in May 2008, with other A level art exhibits, during the annual exhibition of The Royal Society of British Artists. The original painting of 3 portraits was too big for the Exhibition purposes and Stephen agreed to have just one portrait framed and hung - that of his Grandfather. Stephen is currently completing a foundation course in art at The Chelsea School of Art. Liz Meikle (YAAR)

Family, Grandad

Ashtead DFAS
Donation to St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School. to bring an artist into the school to make collages and paper sculptures.

Donation to the Conquerors Club to buy materials for arts and crafts. The club is part of Ashtead Learning Difficulties Group.

Betchworth DFAS
Donation to Sunnydown School, Caterham. Special Needs School to construct scenery and props based on Pop Art for a film - Year 10 - GCSE course work.

Bookham DFAS
Donation to Polesden Lacey Infants School towards a workshop to create a relief about moral values with the help of a professional artist. 12 values the school wishes to highlight with the pupils over a rolling programme of 2 years.

Church Trail for St. Nicholas Church Great Bookham completed Autumn 2009.

Cheam DFAS
Donation to Cuddington Croft Primary School. to provide drawing easels for indoor and outdoor use.

Outdoor drawing easel

Indoor drawing easel

Donation to Nonsuch High School for Girls towards a project the aim of which will be to introduce students to latex mould making and alginate mould making to produce an outdoor wall relief based on the theme of ‘identity’.

Proposed project for 2010 for The Auriol School, Stoneleigh. Donation towards a visual artist working with the gifted children during an arts week.

Chipstead DFAS
Funding towards 2 YA projects (1) Banstead Village Fair July 11th (2) Chipstead Flower Show July 18th. Funded art materials and prizes.

Chipstead are starting a Young Arts Group within St. Anne’s School this autumn.
Church trail is also in progress.

Cobham & Oxshott DFAS
Donation to Woodlands Special Needs School, Leatherhead towards an art week in July which covered artwork,
drama and music. The school caters for children with some profound learning difficulties and severe physical handicaps.

Dorking DFAS
Donation to St. John’s Community School. Children participated in a ‘drumming’ event at Guildford Cathedral.
A selection of African drums already in school.
Donation to St. Michaels School Mickleham to have a sculptor in residence. Now postponed until March 2010.

Epsom DFAS
Donation to Epsom Primary School, summer term for a recycling sculpture project.

Wallace Fields Primary School. Supported the school in the application for a grant from the Patricia Fay Memorial Fund - matched funding. The school acquired the matched funding from the Patricia Fay Memorial Fund for an outside wall mosaic workshop after the PTA matched the funding applied for.

Wallace Fields Primary School

Donation to Conquest Art Group, Epsom. Young people with profound learning difficulties, some partially sighted. Supplied scented pens.

Horsley DFAS
Donation to St. Matthews Primary School Downside School, Cobham. One of Horsley DFAS’ members spent a day demonstrating the art of canal painting.

Donation to Clandon Primary School,. The Horsley DFAS member spent a day demonstrating and helping the children to reproduce the art of canal painting. Canal Art involves painting things that are used on canal boats.
Church trail is in progress

Leatherhead DFAS
Donation to BFree Youth Café, Leatherhead. to sponsor a visual artist to work with the young people on a cubist portrait style 3 day workshop.
Church Trail of St. Mary and St. Nicholas Church completed in autumn 2008.

	BFree Youth Cafe

Limpsfield DFAS
Church trail is almost completed for St. Peter’s Church, Tandridge.

Lovelace DFAS
Applied for matched funding from the Patricia Fay Memorial Fund to run a mosaic project at The Raleigh Primary School in Spring/summer of 2010. Received part of the grant applied for from the Patricia Fay fund.. Society to match fund this and approach other sources for the rest of the finance.

1st draft of church trail almost complete for submission to Nadfas House. St. Martin’s Church, East Horsley.

Reigate DFAS
Offer made to Reigate Priory Museum for purchase of a male mannequin, to be bought before Christmas.
Church trail is in progress.

Walton-on-the-Hill DFAS
Donation to a young music scholar to help pay for his post graduate year at the Royal Academy of Music to study performance skills in singing opera. Joseph Claus obtained a BA (Hons) degree in music from Bristol University.
Church Trail in progress at The Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth.

Liz Meikle - Nadfas East Surrey
YAAR November 2009

Young Arts Projects for 2008 can be found here.

Young Arts Projects for 2007 can be found here.

Young Arts Projects for 2006 can be found here.

Young Arts Projects for 2005 can be found here.