This is the question that sits behind our Create Health strand - a series of test projects to develop and understand how to live well. Our experience in Gloucestershire and evidence drawn from practice across the UK and internationally, confirms that arts, creativity and culture are a fundamental part of living well.
Read MoreGloucestershire Your Futures is a new website designed to support young people with SEND toward achieving their career goals.
Read MoreCreative Climate Action Toolkit focuses on actionable, achievable and nuanced climate action to support smaller creative businesses, organisations, collectives and freelancers. This step by step approach also helps combat the overwhelm often felt at the scale of the crisis.
Read MoreGloucestershire Creative Health Consortium’s composed a paper documenting their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent lockdown periods from 23rd March 2020 to 19th July 2021. This paper includes observations and experiences from consortium partner organisations, delivering artist facilitators and individuals who accessed Creative Health over this time and is available to download now.
Read MoreWe’re excited to be part of the Badge Nation community which recognises individual achievements using digital badges.
Read MoreWe were delighted to be asked by the British Libraries as part of their Living Knowledge Network to talk about Art of Libraries and the impact it has had on two early adopter libraries in very different settings, and how they engage with local communities and tailor strategies to their individual areas.
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.
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!
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