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About PHACE

PHACE – Peterborough Heritage, Arts, Culture, Enterprise – is the Peterborough cultural partnership for children and young people, with a remit that stretches far beyond music. Liz Falconbridge, PHACE Strategic Manager, explains

PHACE opportunities

‘PHACE is an ambitious arts organisation which aims to prioritise social inclusion and working with young people with challenges. Young people can often shine when they get involved in projects which allow them to express themselves in a different way. My role is really about co-ordinating that offer, so young people of Peterborough can know what’s available to them from the age of five to nineteen. PHACE is also now the lead partner for the Music Hub, delivering outside of schools. Now it is up and running, PHACE will offer other art forms too – fashion, music, film, sculpture, design and so on. In Peterborough we know that young people are not accessing culture as much as they could, so PHACE aims to enhance all of the strands and support other agencies – Vivacity, Metal, Green Backyard, Beat This and many more.


PHACE achievements

‘The other thing that underpins what we’re doing is the Arts Award. It’s structured like the Duke Of Edinburgh Awards, with Bronze, Silver and Gold awards, but is not very widely known. We want the young people of Peterborough to know that it exists, and that it’s a great way for young people to get their free time working for them. The Gold level, for example, has 35 UCAS points attached to it, so if you were going to be applying for university you could have an extra 35 points on your application which would make you stand out. ‘They can go start the Arts Award from the age of about six, and if they’re doing activities at home on their days off or on their holiday – painting or making films, which are perhaps things they would be doing anyway – we can find a way to slot that into the Arts Award so they actually gain a qualification at the same time. It’s also a chance to try some art forms that you may never have encountered before and acquire important work skills – researching, interviewing, presenting.


PHACE the music…

‘The Arts Award will become part of Music Hub activities too, so if, for example, you have 2,000 children singing with Peterborough Sings! – which is a project they will be doing with primary schools in November and March – you will actually have a percentage of youngsters who, by the end of that project, will have an Arts Award as well. We hope to be out in the city centre running some taster sessions so people can find out what it is, so look out for these!’


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