🚨 Announcing two new Bristol Creative Industries member benefits 🙌 One of our key focuses is boosting workforce diversity in creative businesses and helping to grow the talent pipeline for our members. To do that we have the BCI Talent Programme which includes two exciting new benefits for members: ✅ Research shows that diverse teams are more creative problem solvers, bringing fresh perspectives to solutions, against the echo-chamber effect that results when people in a business come from too-similar backgrounds. With a strong focus on diversity and inclusion, employees feel valued and that they belong. To help members achieve this, we have partnered with The Hobbs Consultancy to provide on demand equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) e-learning. ✅ We have also partnered with The Early Careers Foundation (ECF), a social mobility charity that works with young people from low-income backgrounds to ensure that talent and hard work are what determine their career success, not background. Through its mentoring programme, ECF pairs employees from partner organisations with 16-18-year-olds for monthly hour-long mentoring sessions. BCI members can now apply to be mentors. ✅ As well as these new initiatives, we also have our ongoing internship programme with Babbasa for young people from underrepresented groups, and we run regular roundtables with key post 16 education providers to promote creative careers to staff and career advisers, drive applications to our internship programme and explore how we can promote the creative industries to students already studying. To find out more and how you can get involved, read this post: https://lnkd.in/eUFGqrXF Alli Nicholas Sian Pitman Heather Wright Clare Leczycki Lis Anderson FCIPR Marissa Lewis-Peart Gail Caig Julian Davis #creativeindustries #bristol #bristolbusinesses #diversity #equitydiversityandinclusion #creativesector
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We are delighted to announce the eight young people selected for the second cohort of the Bristol Creative Industries Internship Programme, in partnership with Babbasa and eight creative businesses from the BCI member community. Launched with a successful pilot in 2023, the programme is aimed at 18-30-year-olds wanting to gain insights and experience in the creative industries. A long-term skills shortage and a lack of workforce diversity are two of the biggest challenges facing the creative industries. The initiative is designed to help tackle those issues and create more inclusive workplaces. For the second year of the scheme, another eight brilliant agencies have stepped up to provide paid placements for the interns over six months. The interns (pictured below) and agencies are: ✅ Elma Hossain (placement at Fox Collective for six months) ✅ Fiona Bui (placements at Proctor + Stevenson and Armadillo) ✅ Holly Poon (Taxi Studio and Proctor + Stevenson) ✅ Inaz Hussain (AMBITIOUS and Plaster) ✅ jan A. (McCann Bristol and Taxi Studio) ✅ Kaden Gardener (Plaster and Ambitious) ✅ Xiaomeng Pan (The Collaborators: Branding & Design and McCann) ✅ Oghenewerhi Worhi Dumuje (Armadillo and The Collaborators) Read more about the fantastic programme, with insights into the interview process and some brilliant images at https://lnkd.in/eCibMrNW #bristol #bristolcreativeindustries #creativeindustries #OurCity2030 #creativebusiness #bristolbusiness #diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversityatwork Alli Nicholas Clare Leczycki Sian Pitman Lis Anderson FCIPR Heather Wright Gail Caig Marissa Lewis-Peart David Darke Tom Harber Tom Bowden-Green Kate Sikora Adam Millbank Daniel Palmer Iona Alisea Devaughn Sangeetha Wynter Oakwood Agency Sunhouse Creative Ltd aer studios Gather Round boomsatsuma Matt Rogers MCIM
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The next Bristol Creative Industries freelancer networking drinks event is on 10 September at The Square Club in Bristol. Tickets are free for Bristol Creative Industries members including a free drink or £5+VAT for non-members. The event is for freelancers and those who work with freelancers. Register at http://buff.ly/4bsz5Vn #Bristol #freelancers #Bristolevents #Bristolbusiness #Bristolcreatives #BristolCreativeIndustries
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The next Bristol Creative Industries freelancer networking drinks event is on 10 September at The Square Club in Bristol. Tickets are free for Bristol Creative Industries members including a free drink or £5+VAT for non-members. The event is for freelancers and those who work with freelancers. Register at http://buff.ly/4bsz5Vn #Bristol #freelancers #Bristolevents #Bristolbusiness #Bristolcreatives #BristolCreativeIndustries
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We are delighted to say that we now have over 10,000 members in the Bristol Creative Industries LinkedIn group 🙌 We’re showcasing the creativity in our region by asking people to introduce themselves 👋 In the group? Join in 👉 https://buff.ly/3U0n6qQ Not a member? Join 👉 https://buff.ly/3FTDBgK #BristolCreativeIndustries #Bristolbusiness #Bristol #creativeindustries #creativesector #creativebusiness #smallbusiness #Bristolcreatives Lis Anderson FCIPR Sian Pitman Heather Wright Clare Leczycki Alli Nicholas Marissa Lewis-Peart Gail Caig David Darke Julian Davis Tom Bowden-Green Adam Millbank Kate Sikora Tom Harber
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With the 2024 general election taking place on 4 July, 17 members of Bristol Creative Industries share what they would like to see for creative businesses from the next government: https://lnkd.in/gEZyvv-S We've also outlined the specific promises for the creative industries included in political parties' general election manifestos. Big thanks to Jessica Morgan | Laura Lear | Catherine Frankpitt | Adam Nieman | Janusz Stabik | Paul Ellis | Neil Sims | Alison Harvey | Ryan Wills | Tom Vaughton | Ed Garrett | Nick Young-Wolfe | Ailsa Billington | Lucy McKerron | Ben Lowndes | Andy Clarke | Rachel Lane | Yarka Krajickova MAAT #creativeindustries #creativesector #bristol #bristolbusiness #creativebusiness #bristolcreativeindustries #bristolcreatives Carnsight Communications | AMBITIOUS | Strike Communications Ltd | Real World Visuals | Oakwood Agency | Taxi Studio | Varn Search Marketing | The Discourse | Certified B Corporation™ | Proctor + Stevenson | Purplefish | B Corp™ | Distinctive Communications Ltd | Louise Rolfe | Vicky Walker | Miya Heap | Alli Nicholas | Clare Leczycki | Sian Pitman | Lis Anderson FCIPR | Heather Wright | Kate Sikora | David Darke | Tom Harber | Tom Bowden-Green
General Election 2024: What creative businesses want from the next government and what the parties have said about the creative industries | Bristol Creative Industries
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AMBITIOUS Armadillo Plaster Creative Communications Fox Collective The Collaborators: Branding & Design McCann Bristol Proctor + Stevenson Taxi Studio Isobel Bryant Matt Rogers MCIM Daniel Palmer Will Reid Liam Britnell Iona Alisea Devaughn