[3] Shape Arts arranges exhibitions,[7] awards bursaries to promising disabled artists[8] and provides training in media and marketing skills.
[12] Renowned British contemporary artists have donated artworks to Shape to raise money for the charity through an auction at Bonhams.
Works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Angela de la Cruz, Tacita Dean, Sir Antony Gormley, Marc Quinn and David Shrigley were auctioned at Bonhams London on 4 March 2014.
[17] In 2016, an online auction at Paddle8 included donations of twenty-five artworks from a range of internationally acclaimed artists including Jeremy Deller, Julie Umerle, Candida Hofer, Ragnar Kjartansson, Hito Steyerl, Grayson Perry and Hans Op de Beeck in support of Shape Arts' 40th anniversary and the continued importance of the organisation's work.
[22] Artist James Lake who was the awardee in 2023, produced in collaboration with Hot Knife Digital Media the short animated film 'Another Day'.