Involvement with Action Space inspires participants to believe in their own talent and creative potential, thereby increasing their self-esteem, confidence and independence.

Action Space addresses key issues that affect the lives of people with learning disabilities. These include:

• the problems of integration and inclusion into the community as a whole
• raising the profile of the talent and creative potential of people with learning disabilities
• the desire of people with learning disabilities to express themselves through their art and to make their positive contribution to society recognised.

Action Space uses the visual arts to address these issues across the whole range of its projects and programmes.

Our aims are:

• To be user-led and participatory
• To encourage the personal and artistic development of each participant
• To provide a platform to show case the talents and achievements of emerging artists with learning disabilities.
• To serve the whole of the learning disabled community in terms of age, level of disability, cultural background and also geographically.

Participants
Action Space provides services for a broad range of the learning-disabled population. We access people of all abilities, ages and cultural backgrounds. The youngest member is 16 and the oldest 72 and over 45% of our participants are from BME communities. Currently, each week some 80 artists with learning disabilities participate and benefit from our programmes.