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MPs told to get their house in order
Hazel Blears MP has today launched a campaign to ban the practice of long term, unpaid internships in Parliament. The Getting Our House In Order Campaign will ask MPs to pledge to paying their interns, rightly identifying that unp... (read more)
New Deal of the Mind has become The Creative Society
Since founder and CEO Martin Bright wrote the article that kick-started our work, the concept of a New Deal of the Mind has provided a mutually rewarding service in which creative organisations and businesses have directly benefitted from the creation of over 1000 sustainable jobs for young people.
As our work has evolved however, we’ve had to evolve with it, and now need a new way to better reflect the positive outcomes that we as New Deal of the Mind have helped to shape.
We are therefore evolving our brand to become known as The Creative Society with a mission to build and support the creative economy.
Look out for changes across our social media sites – coming very soon.
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“It’s built my confidence, and it’s nice to actually have a definite income. It’s good to have that financial security.”
Aniela Murphy
Sales Assistant
Tiffany Tuck Shop -
“This is about giving young people a sense of hope and a sense that the skills that they developed at university will be put to use for the good of society.”
Nigel Carrington
Rector of the University of the Arts -
“My proudest moment was the backstage stuff, working at a hectic concert, making sure everything was running smoothly. Getting through alive!”
Phil Swan
Team Assistant
Music for Youth -
“Young people represent the future of the arts and creative industries, which is why we believe in putting them at the heart of our organisation.”
Jude Kelly
Creative Director of the South Bank Centre -
“Working here gave me a great deal of creative freedom, and allowed me to develop as an artist. No two days were the same.”
David Lewis
Graphic Designer
Flamingo Carnival Arts -
“If the UK is to succeed ten years from now, the generation of people who will be creating the work are coming out of universities now. Without the right support they just won’t be available to us.”
Mark Thompson
Director General of the BBC -
“It’s been a very positive thing for me. The six month placement here has got me so far already.”
Beejal Pandya
Fundraising Assistant
The Royal Court Theatre -
“I do think this is quite a remarkable moment in history. I’m really very, very pleased and proud to be here.”
Lord Puttnam
Film producer
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Creative Placements
The Creative Society is an arts employment charity that helps young people into jobs in the creative and cultural industries.
We work with a whole range of organisations to create paid opportunities for young unemployed people in the arts. In 2010-11 we successfully placed over 800 unemployed young people into six month work placements in arts organisations across the UK. These jobs range from working with musicians and bands for the Notting Hill Carnival, digitising historic photos and documents with London Metropolitan Archives, organising theatre and education projects at the National Theatre and hosting visitors at the Southbank Centre.
Please see the Right Futures, Creative Access, and Haringey Jobs Fund pages for details of our current opportunities, or read on below for a little more information on how we work.
We work primarily with organisations in London, the South East, East of England and the North West. We also have partners in Yorkshire, Glasgow and Wolverhampton (our partners page has a list of all the employers we work with). Other jobs already created involve running events, producing publicity material, working backstage, helping visitors, designing, creating and learning any number of skills that arts organisations depend on.
The creative nature of the placements we offer make them appealing to young people from all backgrounds. The work we offer isn’t boring or low-skilled. Rather it involves interacting with different members of the community, producing art, learning different methods of self-expression, helping others – all leading not only to a fulfilling experience, but also resulting in a rewarding experience where transferable soft and hard skills will be acquired that will lead to future employment.
Our Creative Placement programmes have some of the highest retention rates and strongest outcomes in the country in terms of job and educational progression. More than 70 per cent of the people on our programme moved straight into employment, education or training at the end of their placement. Some 60 per cent of participants were from ethnic minority backgrounds and 89 per cent of participants said that despite wanting to work in the creative sector, they could not have afforded to work for free for six months. We feel this shows our work has helped increase access to the creative sector which is notoriously bad at employing a diverse workforce and opened up opportunities for those that can’t afford to do unpaid internships.
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