Create 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.
Read MoreHow do we combine data and creativity to develop a data driven culture with a difference? Over the past six-months we have had a fresh look at how we capture and use data; asking ourselves a range of challenging questions. Read on to find out more.
Read MoreArts Council England have shared guidance for cultural organisations given by the Government in their National Mourning Guidance Guide.
The guidance includes advice for museums, galleries, and entertainment events, as well as about websites and social media, which you or your organisation and your board/governing body may find useful.
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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 ;-).
Read MoreOur new team leader will be working within the Create Local team, supporting the existing creative catalysts in their work, and also facilitating the development of our new place-based alliances.
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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 MoreA new culture board has been set up for Cheltenham to develop a new cultural strategy for Cheltenham
The board includes representatives from cultural and creative communities
They want to include artists and residents views in the strategy
They have developed an online survey so they can get some feedback and hear your views on how culture is supported in Cheltenham
Residents and creative practitioners are warmly invited to complete this survey.
The Great Jubilee Flag Project!
GL11 Community Hub and Cam and Dursley Creatives have come together to create an amazing Jubilee Project for the whole community to enjoy!
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 MoreHave your say! Thursdays 2-4pm in the static caravan at The Redwell Centre, Matson.
GLcommunities and GASP are looking for residents to contribute to a community podcast. If you have a hobby or interest, a burning issue you want to talk about, an interesting story, a bright idea, or if you want tot learn to record and edit your own audio content or present your own show, drop in to find out more.
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 MoreTwinberrow Sculpture Trail in Dursley woods has now got a beautiful new piece for people to view.
A group of Cam Mum’s led by Emma Scott and Stacey Dent-Beeston began working on the project through a scheme started by Create Gloucestershire, and Dursley Library as part of the Art for Libraries initiative.
Read MoreBack in 2019, Wyldwood Arts embarked on an ambitious project to re-tell an important piece of Forest of Dean history – the remarkable story of the Mushet family – through a community-led stage production. Like so many arts projects, it faced numerous challenges throughout the pandemic, but the production team was determined to see it through.
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