Creative Workforce for the Future
A pilot project creating and fostering inclusive work environments to support our brightest and best young creative talent in the cultural and creative industries (2020-2021)
Made by
Jazlyn Pinckney
My work centres on implementing + evaluating thoughtful inclusion strategies to deliver impactful cultural and institutional change.
Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt
Vanessa Bellaar Spruijt is currently a producer on the MyWorld programme, a five year programme which will showcase the latest advances in digital production and research.
Victoria Tillotson
Victoria (she/her) is Watershed's Talent Development Lead, supporting artists and producers to access new ways of working, build strong collaborative networks and a sense of community.
Jo Lansdowne
Jo is Executive Producer of Pervasive Media Studio; supporting research activity, artist development and the resident community to make brilliant work.Adibah Iqbal
Hannah Higginson
We know that the most innovative work happens in teams that are inclusive to talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Creative Workforce for the Future's mission was to make the creative industries as representative as the society in which we live.
We aimed to do this by creating and fostering inclusive work environments to support our brightest and best young creative talent in the cultural and creative industries.
We ran a 48 week placement programme for thirteen 18 – 30 year old creative professionals from specific backgrounds currently not well represented in the creative sector.
To find out more about the programme and all the business involved visit the archive website .
Based in the West of England, Creative Workforce for the Future offered a flexible and bespoke programme of professional development for companies and paid placements for young people.
The programme's lead delivery partners – Bristol & Bath Creative R+D, UWE Bristol and Watershed – have published this full internal evaluation of the project.
The report shares the good things, difficult things and lessons learned across this pilot project, which took place from October 2020 to March 2021.
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This was an exploratory new pilot programme funded by the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and the European Social Fund (ESF) and led by the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D programme working with Rife at Watershed, Knowle West Media Centre, Creative Youth Network, The Guild co working space, Spike Island and Bristol Museums.
