SKILLS Funding for creative industry interns
Nottingham Lakeside Arts at the University of Nottingham has been awarded £293,315 in funding from the Office for Students to encourage and enable its students to pursue a career in the creative industries. The funding for this ground-
breaking and collaborative project will support the delivery of an annual Creative Pathways programme – the first of a new enterprise of grants. Originating from the Office for
Students’ Challenge Competition Fund, this programme of funding offers two key strands for students qualifying through the university’s Widening Participation agenda — internships for graduates; and the delivery of a Creative Academy for undergraduates, featuring talks by inspirational thought-leaders in the creative sector, workshops with visiting creatives, and opportunities to engage with regional cultural sector leaders, all aimed to upskill and inform students of the potential for good careers in the cultural sector. Shona Powell, Director of
Nottingham Lakeside Arts, said: “We are delighted to receive this new tranche of funding which will enable
by a continued period of declining support and delivery of creative subjects at secondary school level. Nicola Dandridge, Chief
Executive of the Office for Students, said: “This funding will help universities and colleges find ways to remove barriers to local graduate employment, broaden the choice for those local graduates, and help ensure that students are getting the right skills. It’s good news for graduates, universities and local employers in search of highly- skilled, work-ready graduates.” Creative Pathways will work
The Lakeside Arts Centre
us to build on our enormously successful track record of operating externally sponsored internships. “We’ve seen a number of
previous Lakeside interns go on to occupy leadership positions and all are clear that their internship was integral to develop vocationally- relevant practical skills and sector- relevant knowledge, helping them to secure permanent positions within the creative industries.”
Creative Pathways will aim to
deliver internships across seven of Nottingham’s cultural organisations — City Arts, Dance 4, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Playhouse, Nonsuch Theatre, UNESCO City of Literature and Lakeside Arts. Its launch of a new Creative
Academy will seek to address a lack of knowledge of good careers in the cultural sector, in part caused
closely with the university’s Widening Participation and Careers and Employability teams to identify and target the student beneficiaries. All those engaging with the
scheme – 21 interns and 450 Creative Academy participants over three years — will benefit longer term through access to the Creative Pathways Learning and Support Network. This will enable a virtuous cycle of delivery and support across the three years of the programme, whereby an alumni network of graduate interns can contribute to the Creative Academy programme and in turn become mentors for future interns.
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