Image of teenage school student behind a camera in a gallery, taken at Tyneside Cinema as part of Discover! Creative Careers Week 2019

Fair opportunities to build skilled careers in the creative industries.

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Discover! Creative Careers

An award-winning programme designed to introduce, inform and inspire young people from all backgrounds about the thousands of job roles and pathways that exist.

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Creative Kickstart

Supporting the creation of roles for unemployed young people through Creative Kickstart, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.

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Cultural Ambition Wales

A long-term training programme providing young people in Wales with skills and work experience across the cultural heritage sector.

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Backstage tours

Giving students exclusive behind-the-scenes access to major international festivals and stadium concerts.

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Creative Industries Awareness Training

A training session to introduce careers professionals to the creative industries, the types of jobs that exist and the pathways into them, with a focus on vocational entry routes.

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Lansio Her Ddylunio Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru 2023

Rydym yn cydweithio ag Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru i gyflwyno eu Her Ddylunio 2023 ar gyfer colegau a phrifysgolion, gan roi cyfle i fyfyrwyr ymateb i friff diwydiant byw a chynnig datblygiad proffesiynol parhaus wyneb yn wyneb ac ar-lein i diwtoriaid.

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Meet the Creative Kickstarter:
Karmal Waters

'Kickstart has allowed me to build up my self confidence and go into an industry that I’ve not been in before and use my transferable skills I gained from retail.'

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Podcast:
Apprenticeships work for other sectors, do they work for ours?

Featuring Bendy Ashfield, former Apprenticeships Manager at Royal Opera House; Jakki Jeffery, Head of Faculty, Creative Industries at Edinburgh College; Emma Blake Morsi, a Multidisciplinary Arts Producer; and Ellen Johnson, a Project Officer at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums.

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A Manager's Guide to Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are an important route for training and diversifying talent across our sector, offering an alternative progression route into sustainable careers. This guide for employers covers everything you need to know when considering taking on an apprentice.

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Meet the Creative Kickstarter:
Izzy Barber

‘I’ve really been encouraged to put my own ideas forward and to have a go at different things and to learn'

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Meet Ottie Foster-Alexander

Watch our short film featuring Ottie on his first Cultural Ambition placement at Plas Mawr in Conwy.
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