Nick Randell

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Nick Randell is a specialist youth arts consultant, researcher and project manager. Following an early career in youth and community work in the West Midlands, he has worked professionally in the field of youth arts development since 1984. During this time he has been a leading advocate for participatory youth arts work, with a commitment to building bridges between the arts and informal education sectors. He established Nick Randell Associates as an independent youth arts consultancy business in 1996, providing a range of services to organisations wishing to develop and promote arts opportunities for young people, particularly in the context of informal education and social inclusion.

Nick has been responsible for developing a number of strategic national initiatives, from the National Youth Arts Festival to the youth arts magazine Ninety-Five Per Cent (relaunched in 2002 as Upstart). He was the lead researcher and co-author of the influential report ‘Mapping Hidden Talent: investigating youth music projects’. He has also published reports on the role of the arts in work with young people excluded from mainstream education (The Arts Included) and young offenders (Including the Arts: preventing youth offending). An experienced trainer, Nick was Visiting Examiner for the Certificate in Professional Practice in Youth Arts Development at the University of London, and is also one of the Arts Council’s specialist ‘Child Protection’ Advisors. As an Artsplan trainer he co-trains on the ‘Creating Safety: child protection and youth arts’ course, the six day accredited course in Youth Arts Project Management, as well as running tailored training and consultancy.

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