✅ Creative career resources
✅ Initiatives & programmes for students
✅ Good-to-know local creative funding news
✅ Sam’s fave creative career news stories
📚 AMAZING resources about the creative industries…
Careers in Writing - Some useful resources safeguarding new talent in the writing industry (scroll down).
Careers in Photography - AOP have topline information about the core 4 careers in the photography world.
Careers in Media - The best list of different careers in the media sector is this one by Prospects.
🔥 FREE things to help students connect with creativity…
For secondary - Applications for Young Technicians in September at the National Theatre are now open! For young people in Greater Manchester and the East Midlands.
For secondary - The FMR Summer School provides 14-17yos from across the UK with hands-on experience with the fashion industry. Apply now!
For school leavers/uni students - Get your students to do this 15 minute mini career course to help stay productive and work towards career goals this summer.
🤑 LATEST creative industries funding news…
Stockport is named Town of Culture 2023 - Greater Manchester Combined Authority has awarded the title and £50,000 for arts and creativity in the borough.
Are BBC, ITV and Channel 4 coming to Hartlepool? - "A lot of potential investment" is predicted off the back of the town's growing creative industries cluster.
New report highlights high numbers of self-funding - More than half of live/location-based immersive experience creatives have to self-fund.
🚨 Creative career stories Sam’s interested in…
Government is paying attention to Games industry - Investigation into how gaming can benefit the wider economy & improve learning skills.
Screen industry apprenticeships & levy needs reform - ScreenSkills isn’t happy, following an assessment of two pilot apprenticeship schemes.
Thought piece about the decline of creativity in schools - How budget cuts and overpriced creative suites stifle young people.
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