Great organisations and useful resources

Below are some of the useful links to find out more about the routes and pathways into this sector.

Discover! Creative Careers

Discover! Creative Careers is an initiative by the UK creative industries to make it easier for young people to find careers in the creative industries. “Bringing together careers information and opportunities from creative organisations in one explorable directory.”

The Discover! Creative Careers website has a section sharing interesting videos from people in a variety of creative job roles, including a Community Arts Facilitator shared above.

Others include a Filmmaker, a Radio Producer and more.

Jolt

Jolt is a home for Gloucester’s creative community. It is a combination of set spaces, facilities and programmes that supports all creative disciplines. We aim to help you earn a living from your talent, add to the City’s cultural offer and put Gloucester on the map as a hotspot for creativity.

Meet Eric

Meet Eric is a platform designed primarily for students trying to start a career in the creative industries. Their website has resources for schools and colleges about careers in TV, Fashion, Marketing, Music, Journalism, and all creative sectors.

There are lesson plans, CPD opportunities, infographics and more. The app is designed for young people: once you enter in a few details about yourself, it will tailor the results to suit you. There are opportunities such as competitions, internships, or webinars with influential professionals.

The app is linked to the BBC’s Bring The Drama Festival, which has hundreds of events running in person or online that young people can attend to find out more about working in the TV, Film and Theatre sectors.

The 'Eric' app is shown on a mobile phone with text saying 'internships' and 'events' on top of the image.

The Music Works

The Music Works is a Gloucestershire based charity whose mission is to transform young lives through music. We work with over 3,000 young people a year from ages 8-30, in schools and our community rehearsal spaces in Gloucester, Stroud, and the Forest of Dean. We do everything from helping young people get started in music, to supporting emerging artists and running festivals and events. Find out more: www.themusicworks.org.uk

Young Trustees Movement

The Young Trustees Movement is made up of current and aspiring young trustees, employers and allies. They exist to double the number of trustees aged 30 and under on charity boards by 2024.

BENEFITS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Young trusteeship is an incredible experience that will boost your career and give the opportunity to develop a range of skills.

DEVELOP SKILLS
GROW YOUR NETWORK
LEARN ABOUT GOVERNANCE AND UNDERSTAND HOW THE CHARITY SECTOR WORKS
MAKE A DIFFERENCE

ScreenSkills (was Creative Skillset, and Hiive)

ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the screen industries – film, television (including children's, unscripted and high-end), VFX (visual effects), animation and games. We are supporting economic recovery and future innovation and growth across the nations and regions by investing in the skilled and inclusive workforce who are critical to the UK screen industries' global success.

ScreenSkills supports talent at every level, from new entrants to programmes for mid-career professionals and executives and across the industry, from production accounting to exhibition and grips to writers.

They provide or are developing services to support the finding, nurturing and retention of award-winning talent including Careers information, Apprenticeships, Skills forecasting, Mentoring, Quality marking - ScreenSkills Select, Bursaries, and Training.

The Creative Society

The Creative Society is an employment charity that helps young people wanting to work in the creative and cultural sector. They produce a weekly jobs and opportunities list via email, provide Employment surgeries, mentoring, and host Creative Job Studio.

Knowledge Centre from Creative and Cultural Skills

– provides information, advice and guidance to the sector to help improve understanding about the value of apprenticeships/non-traditional training routes. They also commission and collate relevant research to better understand the challenges facing our workforce.

They also have podcasts which we recommend listening to, programmes, and events.

Arts Jobs

– Arts Council England’s free mailing list service, listing adverts for a range of job opportunities within the art and culture sector.

Bubble

– Bubble Jobs promote the digital and technology sectors and their wealth of amazing job and career opportunities.

Prospects

– provide a portfolio of graduate career and postgraduate study recruitment options and work in close partnership with HE and further education (FE) professional bodies and government to deliver unique services that benefit the sector as a whole. There are tools such as a Career Planner and Careers Advice.

Creative Access

Creative Access is one of the leading diversity organisations in the UK. They support talented people from groups that are under-represented in terms of ethnicity, socio-economic background and disability, or facing significant barriers to employment, to not just enter the creative industries, but to thrive when they get in.

Creative Youth Network

– helps young people, no matter what their background or circumstances, to reach their own potential through careers advice, support for emerging artists, musicians, performers and creatives aged16-25 years old.

Creative Careers Roadshow

Create Glos worked in partnership with the G First LEP to support a Creative Careers Roadshow into secondary schools. Some of the interns and apprentices as part of the Creative Employment Programme were interviewed in this 18 minute film featuring different creative pathways for young people.

Gloucestershire Your Futures

Gloucestershire Your Futures is a website designed to support young people with SEND or an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) toward achieving their career goals.

The website contains information about the Gloucestershire Local Offer and support services, key job profiles with video content for each and more.

Click here to visit the website.

Website: https://gloucestershire.yourfutures.uk/

Starting up your own Business

The Prince’s Trust – Enterprise Programme

Works with 18-30 year olds to turn big ideas into a business reality through their Enterprise programme, including training and mentoring support to funding and resources.

Glos Enterprise Limited (GEL)

-GEL provide 130 short courses in business skills, leadership & management, personal development and other technical skills such as Health & Safety, Finance, HR and many IT courses. They offer short courses and qualification programmes at Twigworth Court Business Centre, and can deliver training in-house at your offices or an alternative location.

The Growth Hub

– can help your business maximise its potential with one to one advice and support in 35+ locations around Gloucestershire.

Articles

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Jordan's blog

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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!

What Kate learned at Can’t Sit Still

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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.

Talented Teenagers from the Quarry Collective arrive at Dursley Craft Market!

In 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.

How are the kickstarters getting on?

We 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.

Love Art? Create your future!

20 local GCSE and A’Level students from Rednock and KLB schools in Cam & Dursley will be showcasing experimental pieces during Tyndale Arts Week. They created the work during a nine week programme called ‘Love Art? Create your Future! run by artist and educator Abi Nicol.

Meeting Life as a Creative Adventure - would you like to grab this opportunity?

The 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!

The Creative Leadership Trainee Programme

In March 2019, Gloucester Culture Trust launched the Creative Leadership Trainee Programme. The aim: to nurture the future creative leaders of today.

The programme has created four full-time, year-long jobs within four of Gloucester’s creative organisations, all of which are fully funded by the Creative Entrepreneurs strand of the city’s Great Place project. This area of our work, which we call JOLT, is about creating opportunities and a supportive space which enables people to work and make a living in the creatives industries, right here in Gloucester.

Shalize Nicholas, the founder of Madia & Matilda, talks to us about her journey from starting her sustainable fashion business to making it a success

Getting started in the creative and cultural sector

Create Gloucestershire was fortunate to be involved in an life changing initiative, the Creative Employment Programme which supported 40 young people as paid interns and apprentices in 20 different creative organisations/SME’s in taking their first step into working in the creative sector. Of those 40 young people, over half of them were kept on by their employer or moved on to further study.

Kate Townley- Project Management Apprenticeship at Art Shape

Feeling university is not for you, read how Kate forged her own way in the creative industries with support from Create Gloucestershire’s CEP funding.

Victoria Ainley - Marketing Internship at Hawkwood College

Victoria was the Marketing, Publicity and Social Media intern at Hawkwood College and was responsible for increasing Hawkwood’s web presence including social media alongside assisting with general marketing duties. After completing a Masters degree in London, she was looking for an opportunity to gain work experience in the South West. This internship provided a great opportunity to gain valuable skills and experience in a creative industry.

Going the Extra Mile (GEM)

The GEM Project aims to engage with and support individuals within Gloucestershire who are currently dealing with circumstances that are potentially causing barriers to work and move these people closer towards education, training, volunteering or work, including self-employment.

Jodie Sutton - Creative Apprenticeship at New Brewery Arts

When I finished my A-Levels, I had no idea what I wanted to do next. I got good grades and was offered a place to study History at Reading University, but the thought of leaving home and going to university terrified me.

Sam Jenkins - Internship at The Wilson

Since finishing her internship, she has spent 6 months as a Collections Assistant at The Devil’s Porridge Museum near Dumfries, and a year as an Assistant Registrar with the National Railway Museum. She is currently on a years’ contract work with the National Museum Scotland in Edinburgh as an Assistant Registrar.

Creative Steps

Interested in working in the Creative Industries or creative sector?