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Spirit Arts Academy
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The photo shows Jennifer James, our Founder and Executive Director, receiving the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners,
Black Women in Business President Award 2005.


Spirit Arts Academy (SAA) is based in Camberwell, SE London and provides training, Life Skills and Flexible Learning to young predominately black young people aged 11-25.

Jennifer James, who originally founded Spirit Arts Youth as a community project, where after-school, college and disaffected young people could use the facilities of the drop-in-centre. In its 10th year, and a name change Spirit Arts Academy has grown from a local community project into a recognised professional focused organisation with a committed team of educators delivering focused personalised educational programmes.

Spirit Arts Academy a training project is situated in a 9,000sq ft building. Spirit Arts has successfully involved over 1200 young people in its arts and cultural programmes, and has initiated programmes It has greatly exceeded all its set targets in delivering training, activities and engaging often hard to reach groups many of whom suffer from unemployment, poverty and other social and physical disadvantages.

It has also been able to develop its services to the wider community, many of who have little or no access to quality training or arts provision. With the development of the building more users will be able to be involved in the training offer by SAA.
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