Sorrel Hershberg (Director), The Sorrell Foundation
The Creativeworks London Researcher in Residence scheme has enabled us to work with Dr Katherine Appleford from Kingston University London to investigate the Saturday morning classes that were the inspiration for our current National Art&Design Saturday Club. Our programme has been running for six years, providing young people aged 14-16 across the UK with free art and design tuition and routes into further study. Our hope is that they will find routes into careers in the creative industries. The original Saturday classes ran from the late 1940s to the late 1970s, so thanks to Dr Appleford’s research, we have been able to explore the long term impact of the programme.
