Creative Employment Programme Success Stories
Thousands of employers and young people have benefited from being part of the Creative Employment Programme. Here are just a few of the success stories.
Growing a micro-business with a paid intern
Daniel Williams, 13 February 2015Hannah Sedgwick is the owner of Penryn Violins, a micro-business in Cornwall that designs, makes and restores instruments of the violin family and early woodwind instruments. Hannah successfully applied to the Creative Employment Programme for funding to create a paid internship as she needed a new member of staff to help expand.
Creating jobs through local partnerships
Daniel Williams, 10 June 2014The Music Education Hub in Telford and Wrekin Council applied to the Creative Employment Programme to create four Creative Apprenticeships for young people within the local authority and its arts venues.
Taking on a paid intern to help with fundraising
Daniel Williams, 17 December 2014Disability-led arts organisation Shape works to improve access to the arts. They used the Creative Employment Programme to take on a paid intern in their Fundraising and Development Department. The intern has since secured a full-time role in the team.
Working in creative internships and apprenticeships
Madeleine Lund, 10 March 2015DanceEast, based at the Jerwood DanceHouse in Ipswich, is part of the Suffolk County Council Creative Employment Programme consortium. We met up with two apprentices and a marketing officer – who started as a paid intern – to talk about their experiences in the workplace so far.
Emma Morsi, digital marketing apprentice
Creative & Cultural Skills Awards 28 March 2017Emma joined Saffron Records, an all-female record label, as their digital marketing apprentice and helped them grow their website traffic and social media engagement. She now works for them as a freelance design consultant and also produces her own digital arts, fashion and music magazine. In 2017, she was awarded Apprentice of the Year at the Creative & Cultural Skills Awards.
Inka Romani, programming intern
Isabel Stewart, 31 July 2015Inka works as a programming intern at Sadler's Wells in a role which is part-funded by the Creative Employment Programme. So what exactly does programming involve and what skills can you learn? This Is It! spoke to her to find out.
Funding for a diverse workforce
Daniel Williams, 29 May 2014London Theatre Consortium (LTC) is a consortium of 13 of London’s leading producing theatres. After successfully winning funding through the Creative Employment Programme, they were able to take on 38 apprentices.
Building a creative workforce through youth employment
Daniel Williams, 28 August 2014The Creative Employment Programme helped Rotherham Creative build capacity in the local creative sector, giving young people much needed employment opportunities. The initiative is linked to the development of Rotherham’s Music Education Hub and wider arts activities for young people.
Arts and culture interns
Daniel Williams, 18 March 2015Steff Wills, Hayley Wayre, Natasha O’Dowd and Lizzie Minchener are paid interns for arts organisations in the Create Gloucestershire network. We asked them what they do as part of their internships in areas such as project management, fundraising and marketing.
April Skipp, marketing and development intern
Creative & Cultural Skills Awards 23 November 2016April joined Yorkshire Dance as their Marketing and Development Intern. She made such an impression on them that within a year, they had created a new position in the organisation for her and she is now the Marketing Officer. In 2016 she won the Creative & Cultural Skills Intern of the Year Award.
Working with Jobcentre Plus
Daniel Williams, 4 June 2014Organisations creating paid internships with funding from the Creative Employment Programme (CEP) are required to advertise these posts at their local Jobcentre Plus. This makes them accessible to the nearly one million 18 to 24 year olds in the UK who are unemployed.
Holly Haste, creative apprentice
Sara Whybrew, 9 March 2015Holly Haste works as an apprentice for Neon Street where she runs events, oversees projects and researches new musical talent. She told us about what her apprenticeship involves day-to-day, while her employer outlined his experiences of taking on an apprentice.
Alex Whelan, museum project officer
Daniel Williams, 19 April 2015Alex Whelan works as a project officer for Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. He talked to us about what this heritage career involves, and why doing a paid internship was such a crucial step in helping him into the cultural sector.
Jack Homer, technical arts student
Creative & Cultural Skills Awards 16 November 2016As a student at South Essex College, Jack developed a passion for technical development and helping his fellow students. He is a shining example of how much a young person can achieve if supported and empowered and in 2016 was the winner of the Creative Choices Award.
Tim Porter, creative producer intern
Zoe Hardie 20 April 2014Tim had a wealth of experience as a director, writer and editor before he took on the role of creative producer intern at Project Phakama. He talks about getting trained up in backstage arts and offers advice for people who want to work their way into an arts career.
Live events and promotion apprentices
Madeleine Lund, 11 March 2015Boomsatsuma desribes itself as ‘the community interest company that's fueling the next creative generation’. Formed in 2009, they have created 13 apprenticeships and internships with funding from the Creative Employment Programme. We met with some of their young staff to talk about how they've found it.
Apprentices in the Create Gloucestershire network
Daniel Williams, 18 March 2015Glenn Hazard, David Bath and Kate Townley are apprentices in the Create Gloucestershire network, which has over 100 members from across the local arts and cultural sector. They discuss how they got started as apprentices, where they want to go next and offer some tips.
Eve Timothy, front of house apprentice
Madeleine Lund, 11 March 2016After studying an events course, Eve was employed as a front of house apprentice for a theatre and a music hall. She told us about what her apprenticeship involves and why she thinks front of house is a great starting point for a career in events and venue management.
Marissa Anthony, business admin apprentice
Sarah Wingett , 7 November 2014With her college graduation approaching, Marissa saw the perfect opportunity to start applying for apprenticeships. She explains how she landed a role through the Creative Employment Programme and how being an apprentice has helped her become more passionate about the future.
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Winning funding as a consortium
Daniel Williams, 28 April 2014The UK’s only creative-business incubator for designer-makers is using the Creative Employment Programme to support its studio-holders through the process of taking on their first employee and growing their micro-businesses
Tackling youth unemployment
Daniel Williams, 4 June 2014Suffolk County Council brought together 33 local cultural sector employers into a consortium to create 80 Creative Employment Programme-funded apprenticeships and paid internships. They have been able to address youth unemployment and diversify the area’s creative workforce.
Beth Knight, fundraising and development apprentice
Madeleine Lund, 10 March 2016Beth is fundraising and development apprentice for West Yorkshire Playhouse. She discusses the skills she's picked up from the role and provides tips for working in theatre.
Phil Gee, Royal Opera House admin support intern
Daniel Williams, 15 August 2014Having previously worked in the construction industry, Phil hadn’t considered working in arts and culture. But since doing an admin support internship at the Royal Opera House through the Creative Employment Programme, he now can’t see himself doing anything else.
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Rachael Garrett, Preventive Conservation Intern
Sarah Jones, 8 August 2016What does an internship in preventative conservation look like? We heard from Rachael Garrett who was employed through the Northern Ireland Creative Employment with the National Trust.
Simone Gayle, community arts apprentice
Daniel Williams, 8 March 2015What does a community arts apprentice do? We heard from apprentices employed through the Creative Employment Programme, starting with Simone Gayle from The Albany in London.
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