KICKSTART BLOG
Evie and Jimmy both got paid apprenticeships through the Kickstart Scheme. Jimmy was at Deepbed radio and Evie worked at SVA. Watch their video to find out what they got up to…
Read MoreGloucestershire Your Futures is a new website designed to support young people with SEND toward achieving their career goals.
Read MoreWe’re excited to be part of the Badge Nation community which recognises individual achievements using digital badges.
Read MoreCG’s take away from the new national and local funding picture is that there are many brilliant arts and cultural organisations who secured funding and just as many that didn’t. There was simply not enough funding available to meet the incredible aspirations and potential of arts and cultural organisations in England.
Read MoreCreate Gloucestershire is continually looking at ways we can be a more inclusive employer. And over the past couple of years we have made lots of significant changes to our recruitment process to make it as flexible and accessible as possible.
We’ve put this blog together to share our learning about what we did. And at the bottom of the page you’ll find a checklist that we hope you’ll find useful.
Read MoreFor some arts and cultural organisations Oct 26th is an important day when decisions about 3 year strategic funding from Arts Council England are made. Successful organisations will make up the National Portfolio becoming National Portfolio Organisations (NPO's) or Investment Principles Support Organisations (IPSO's).
CG is one of this group waiting to hear if we are successful with our application to become an IPSO for Gloucestershire.
Read MoreWhen Cam and Dursley Creatives and GL11 Community Hub collaborated on the Platinum Jubilee Flag making project the community went silkscreen crazy, producing over 2,500 flags depicting images created by local children that celebrated our Queen.
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Jordan Odame is working at The Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury and joined the team through the Kickstart Scheme. Read on to find out more about his unusual journey into work in the cultural sector.
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My name is Manon Molyneux and I am working as a Junior Studio Engineer/Music Leader at The Music Works in Gloucester. I joined The Music Works on the kickstart scheme and have since become a full-time employee at the Gloucester Hub!
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Lia Morgan is working as Company Assistant at Wyldwood Arts and joined through the Kickstart Scheme. She has loved the opportunity to find out more about what’s going on in her community and has had the opportunity to develop lots of new skills from event organising to graphic design - all whilst juggling caring for a young daughter too!
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Ania Bond is working as the Arts Education Intern at Prema Arts Centre and joined through the Kickstart Scheme. Find out how she discovered the work opportunity and how she has got on in the role and what she has learned along the way (as well as how great the coffee is in the Vestry cafe ;-).
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Kate has been working with Can’t Sit Still as a Marketing and Production assistant for the last 6 months as an intern. She found her placement through the governments kickstart scheme. Create Glos role was to support employers in the arts, cultural and education sector to recruit young people.
Read MoreIn early May Dursley Craft Market hosted a group of talented young people who launched a range of products for the first time. They have been attending a weekly class at The Quarry Chapel, Cam where they were taught a range of craft skills and approaches to making products with the view to sell.
Read MoreIn December I was excited to join the “Easy Read” Training with Inclusion Gloucestershire and to learn more about how I could communicate more clearly.
How can we make all our information easier for everyone to read?
In this blog post I share my learning in the hope that it can help others!
Read MoreDebbie Christie - CG’s catalyst for Matson and Robinswood - tells us about a new project she’s been working on with primary school children in the local community in collaboration with photography students at The University of Gloucestershire.
Read MoreWe are so proud to have been instrumental in recruiting 60 young people in 23 arts organisations and schools in Gloucestershire, from Wyldwood Arts in the Forest of Dean, Loco Glass in Cirencester, Deepbed Radio in Gloucester, Kingshill House in Dursley to Bright Marketing in Cheltenham.
Read MoreThe new programme is scheduled for this autumn and we’re looking for young people ready to explore their next steps. Sessions begin on zoom on the 2nd November so get in touch if you would like to find out more!
Read MoreWe are delighted to share the news that Create Gloucestershire has been selected to be a Kickstart Gateway organisation working with 13 Gloucestershire organisations for the new government Kickstart Scheme.
As a Gateway organisation Create Gloucestershire will support 13 organisations in the arts, cultural and education sector to recruit 31 young people in Gloucestershire giving them the chance to build their confidence and skills in the workplace, and to gain experience that will improve their chances of going on to find long-term, sustainable work.
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