Where we have come from...

AiR was originally a Home Office funded pilot project, initiated by Liverpool Social Partnership in Drug Prevention. It has been active in the area of benefit since 1995. It was established as an independent Limited Company and Registered Charity in 1999.

Student outside our old premises, Sparky

Creative skills training programmes (we have just finished our nineteenth course), responding to the pre-vocational needs of young people at risk of long term unemployment, have provided the springboard for a series of programmes that use creative and cultural processes to support strategies for education and regeneration in the community.

We have worked on projects throughout Liverpool, particularly south Liverpool, while always responding to the feelings of the communities in which we are based - Speke and Garston.

During 2002 - 2003, AiR relocated to the new £25m PFI 'Parklands' complex in Speke. It operates its programmes from the Speke Youth & Community Centre, one of the facilities on a campus that includes Parklands High, the local secondary school, LCC library, sport centre and one stop shop, a City Learning Centre with purpose-built theatre, operations centre for the local housing company, Adventure Playground and Family Centre.