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Aim

The aim of the Creative Renewal Development Partnership was to increase options of employment and training for those people who may have been unable to gain employment within the arts and entertainment sector and to increase the career prospects of those who were already working within the sector. It aimed to support pilot projects that challenged barriers to labour market progression for groups of people who, traditionally, were discriminated against.

Objectives

The main objectives of the DP were:

  • to diversify the workforce through positive action and anti-discrimination actions that would provide a greater range of entry points not dependent on high levels of educational attainment

  • to make the transition from training into the workforce easier for a cohort of diverse workers through developing a range of targeted employability services designed to overcome the barriers they face

  • to support continuing professional development programmes designed to overcome the inequality and barriers faced by women, people with disabilities, Asian, Black and Chinese people working or wishing to work in the arts and entertainment sector.

  • to develop and implement a range of work-based qualifications to ensure that training and development activity was recognised by employers in the sector in order to mainstream the validity of the learning and development undertaken

  • to develop a programme of capacity building measures to strengthen community organisations’ ability to sustain work of the highest standard after EQUAL has finished and to support organisational change to fully empower the target groups

  • to develop a clear set of benchmarks and principles of best practice in equality relating to recruitment and selection, employment and human resource practices, training and development for the arts and entertainment workforce

  • to disseminate and mainstream the findings of the Creative Renewal programme efficiently and effective and ensure that the findings were widely available to policy partners
Background

The DP was led by the arts and entertainment NTO and comprised the Arts Council of England, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Learndirect, employers, employer associations, trade associations and unions, universities and local community organisations. The project operated nationally. Creative Renewal covered approximately 50% of the arts sector workforce.

Round

1

Lead partner

Think EQ (trading as EQ)

Core partners

Arts Council of England Education and Employment Division, Arts Marketing Association, Bankside Arts Training Trust, Bectu, Cape UK, City University, Collage Arts (formerly Haringey Arts Council), Community Media Association, Community Music, Connections Communications Centre, Creative Partnerships, Dance UK, Department for Culture Media and Sport, Engage (London), Equal Opportunities and Social Inclusion Advisory Group, Equity, ETA Diversity Programme, Foundation for Community Dance, Graeae, Independent Theatre Council, Kala Sangam, Local Promoters for Cultural Diversity (LPCD), London Youth Music Action Zone, Metier, Momentum Arts (formerly Eastern Touring Agency), Musicians In Focus, Musician's Union, National Association for Literature Development, National Association of Writers in Education, Prevista Ltd., Quality and Equality, Royal National Theatre, Showhow, Society of London Theatres, Sound Sense, The Big Idea, The Diversity Project, The Public (formerly Jubilee Arts), Theatre Royal Stratford East, Theatrical Management Association, Total Theatre, Ufi Ltd (Learndirect, Nottingham), Visual Associations (formerly AXIS), WAC Performing Arts & Media College, Women in Music, Writernet, YCTV Foundation

Transnational partnerships

Information for Transnational partnerships

Contact

David McCall, Think EQ (trading as EQ),

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Achievements

To date around 1,500 new training opportunities have been proposed to support employability for people currently under-represented in the arts sector. These vary from short-courses and improved information, advice and guidance to long-term placements.

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Activities and products

Activity
Arts Marketing Association, Step Up (A)The Arts Marketing Association (AMA) ran a two staged coaching scheme called Step Up.
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Axis/Visual Associations, Pampara Visual Associations built a strong working relationship with Shisha (International agency for South Asian visual arts and crafts) to deliver its Creative Renewal project Pampara which aimed to create access to, and employment opportunities for visual artists of ethnic minority backgrounds.
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Cape UK Creative Renewal was matched with Of This Plant (OTP) and Young Roots, Your Roots (YRYR).
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City University, CPD ProgrammeThis provided the opportunity for all project management staff of all organisations taking part in the Development Partnership to gain a qualification offered by City University.
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CM, Certificate in Higher Education: Music Tutor Training (B)CM developed the Certificate in Higher Education: Music Tutor Training, a course-based teaching qualification designed for level 1 exit graduates.
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Collage Arts / The public, Soft Skills Toolkit Collage and The Public co-commissioned researchers to assess the ‘soft’ skills needs of creative industry organisations and measure them against partner organisation training outputs.
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Connections Communications Centre, Dare to Dream (C)The Dare to Dream website - www.d2d.org.uk - provided a showcase of digital video, photography and audio projects created by artists and filmmakers who do not always have a voice in mainstream media.
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Dance UK, Creative Renewal Research into Pay scales in DanceDance UK completed a piece of qualitative research into the career development needs and opportunities of dance company artistic directors and also a significant piece of policy-informed research about pay scales across the dance procession.
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Eastern Touring Agency/Momentum (E)Momentum worked in collaboration with Festivals in Eastern Region to provide platforms for a range of artists which included the Cambridge Summer Big Day Out and IpArt in Ipswich and provided an interactive tool for BME Artists and Promoters within the Eastern Region through the development of a creative website.
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Engage, Diversifying the Gallery Education Workforce Engage undertook a seminal piece of research focussing on school pupils and university students’ awareness of careers in galleries and career aspirations.
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Foundation for Community Dance, Potential (D)The Foundation for Community Dance (FCD) developed an empowering co-mentoring programme involving twelve dance artists, nine of whom are disabled, which has led to a deeper understanding of issues of diversity for all involved.
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Graeae, Missing Piece 3 Graeae developed an accredited course linked to a professional performance contract called Missing Piece 3.
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Independent Theatre Council, Fast Track (F)The Independent Theatre Council (ITC) promoted a Fast Track management programme for Black and Minority Ethnic people in theatre.
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Musicians in Focus (G)Musicians in Focus developed better training methods and ICT software to influence the way that visually impaired students are taught and how they can compose music.
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National Association of Writers in Education, NAWE Virtual School The National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) developed a highly innovative software programme to enable disabled writers to work in schools in real time.
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Royal National Theatre, on the CASE (Co-ordinating Arts, Shows and Events) (H)The Royal National Theatre developed a programme in partnership with the Albany in South East London - the Art of Regeneration.
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Showhow, Fellowship Programme Showhow disseminated activities for its Fellowship Programme.
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Sound Sense, Facing Up / Looking Both Ways / Step Up (I)Sound Sense’s considered issues of employability of Asian, Black and Chinese musicians working in community music.
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Tate Tate Britain provided a series of targeted placement opportunities for disabled people within the galleries in order to provide work experience and fast track training for disabled people, and to increase the Tate’s understanding of employability issues regarding disabled people.
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Theatre Royal Stratford East, Music Theatre Development Project Creative Renewal funded Theatre Royal Stratford East (TRSE) to produce two four week Music Theatre Workshops.
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