The Creative Business Hub offers business training and work experience for young people seeking a career in the creative industry and for creative professionals who want to diversify their talents but remain working.
From work experience to paid internships CultureMix Arts provides the support needed for your first foray into the world of work. Our simple holistic process of developing creative talents with business skills training and real life work scenarios produces positive results to enhance your prospects of winning that coveted job.
CultureMix Arts works in partnership with schools, colleges and universities to provide talented pupils and students with access to structured training and experience working in a real life creative industry.
To be eligible you will need to be aged 15 – 25 with a passion for art, music and culture. You can be in further education or recently completed your college or university course.
Business Training Overview
Our business training is the cornerstone of all our development programmes and incorporates a broad spectrum of key transferable skills including:
- How a business works – set up and structure, roles, products, services, sales and marketing
- Office administration – efficiently run an office, manage paperwork, invoices and data storage
- Project management – plan a successful project with timelines, roles, responsibilities & budget
- Communications – deal with clients, write good emails, positively represent your company
- Marketing and promotion – key messages, social networking, reach new audiences
- Finance – create a balanced budget, produce and maintain usable spreadsheets
- Funding – learn the process of raising funds for your creative projects
- Confidence building – gain clarity on your ambitions and plan your career path to success.
Work experience
Through work experience young people gain an understanding of real work scenarios. Supported by mentors participants are encouraged to fully engage in the practical activities of a working environment.
Year 10 students can take part in tailored work experience to suit their school and individual requirements. Some join for one week to gain insights in all departments, others do one day a week for four or five weeks for a more focussed approach.
We also offer a work experience programme for schools for small groups of up to ten students from Year 8, 9 and 10 to focus on identity and belonging, and develop their creative health.
For example we worked in partnership with the local authority, supported by Shared Prosperity funding, to deliver a ten-week programme for selected Year 10 students from a local secondary school.
The course took place at the CultureMix Centre during school hours and included:
– devising the programme of activity including forming as a steel band for a finale performance
– creating a production team with specific roles including planning, marketing, organising logistics and a timetable
– recording audio and video for marketing, promotion and informing at the finale performance
– monitoring progress and feedback to help develop the project
– delivering a finale performance event at the school.
CASE STUDY – NATHIFA JORDAN
“I joined CultureMix as a Year 10 student on work experience and after working part time as the Business and Administration Manager I am now the Business Director for the company.”
Nathifa conceptualised the Creative Business Hub and is a Board director for two significant charities. She is a key driving force behind the growth and development of CultureMix Arts. More.
Internships
Our bespoke paid internships are tailor made to suit the career path of a young person seeking to improve their employment opportunities. Transferable skills gained enable interns to apply their learning in any sector. We offer up to three internship per year including opportunities for creative professionals to diversify skills by working part time hours around their hybrid job.
From visiting schools with our tutors, to updating the website shop the diversity of our work experience programme provides a wide reaching range of new skills that stretches expectations therefore developing confidence.
Volunteers
Our volunteer programme provides opportunities for people of all ages who want to give something back to their community. Working with our Business Director volunteers bring their vital skills to a not for profit organisation in exchange for improving expertise and gaining valuable work experience.
Business Advice & Resources
If you are planning on setting up your own creative business or you need advice on funding a specific project the Creative Business Hub should be your first port of call.
Our free consultation process offers advice on all the elements required to set up a sustainable creative business alongside signposting to arts funding sources with guidance on crafting a compelling case.
Contact us here to book an appoointment.
