Our Impact 2022-23
2022-23 has been a transformational period for the Global Goals Centre charity (GGC). We are proud to have engaged over 69,000 people with our projects, worked directly with 415 young people and employed 25 creatives and interns.
Through our ‘Voices: Art is Refuge’ project we worked with 11 artists from 7 different migrant and refugee backgrounds to engage the public and school children with the stories, cultures and contributions of refugees and asylum seekers.
GGC’s long term ambition has always been to have a physical visitor centre to engage people with
the SDGs. In August 2022, we had a chance of securing the empty M&S building thanks to
the City Centre Regeneration team at Bristol City Council who supported our plans and saw
the benefits that this would bring to the Broadmead area of the city. The collaboration with Artspace Lifespace (ASLS) in developing the old Marks and Spencer building into the truly amazing centre of sustainability, the arts, learning and fun that is Sparks has changed everything.
With the help of substantial funding from our partners and the National Lottery, we have been able to create a space which is financially viable and that we can use to further our charity’s aims of reaching out to educate a very broad, and the sometimes difficult to reach, parts of the population in how we can all work towards a better, more sustainable world. The impact of our educational work will become clearer as we develop our offerings to schools and other groups within Sparks, but even in the short time since the opening in May, we have found that being able to demonstrate good, working examples on the ground, in our spaces, has paid dividends.
We are all very excited about the future of the Global Goals Centre, whether within Sparks or as a standalone in the future. The lessons we are learning, the national coverage that we are getting and the potential that the building unlocks are immense.
