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Invitation to tender for Discover! Creative Careers Nations Expansion

Following a directive from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), ScreenSkills is inviting tenders for two contracts to deliver separate programmes of creative careers activities in two Nations.

Announcing Discover! Creative Careers Month November 2025

Our flagship event connecting thousands of young people with creative industry encounters will now take place across an entire month as part of a programme-wide expansion.

Introducing our delivery partners for the Discover! Creative Careers Work Experience Pilot

Further to our announcement earlier this week about the expansion of the Discover! Creative Careers Programme, we are sharing a bit more detail about our partners.

ScreenSkills, Discover! Creative Careers and the Adobe Foundation team up to host a series of events to inspire 11-18 year olds

Five regionally-based events for young people to get hands-on with animation, games, events, documentaries and music have taken place...

Programme Assistant Vacancy

We are looking for a Programme Assistant to join the team at an exciting time as we expand the programme. The role involves some PA duties for the Programme Lead alongside meeting management, data administration, event support (online and in-person) and finance administration.

Discover! Creative Careers with Adobe Foundation: Games Workshop with Radical Forge at Longfield Academy in Darlington – November 2024

Our second event in partnership with Adobe Foundation was another Discover! Creative Careers Week event - this time in Darlington.

Discover! Creative Careers with Adobe Foundation: Animation Visit to Aardman Studios for Cabot Foundation – February 2025

Students from Digitech Studio School enjoyed a visit to Aardman Studios for a workshop with one of Aardman’s Junior Animators. They had the opportunity to get hands on with Feathers McGraw, and learn about the making of Shaun the Sheep.

Discover! Creative Careers with Adobe Foundation: Farnborough International Studios Visit for The Sixth Form College Farnborough March 2025

The Sixth Form College Farnborough sent a lucky group of 45 students to the incredible space at Farnborough International Studios for a day of learning about film/ TV physical filming space careers, insights into post production and VFX and a visit to the stages.

Discover! Creative Careers with Adobe Foundation: Music Local Launch Pad event for young people in Kirklees – March 2025

Young people in Kirklees spent an evening at Conscious Youth in Huddersfield. The evening gave young people the chance to find out about music industry roles and opportunities in the Yorkshire region...

Watch some of the highlights from Discover! Creative Careers Week 2024

Discover! Creative Careers Week 2024 took place across England with over 33,000 young people taking part in careers activities with hundreds of creative industry employers.

Exclusive YouTube film launches campaign for young people to enter creative industries

New partnership aims to excite more young people across the country about creative careers. Discover! Creative Careers, an England wide industry-led programme, has partnered with YouTube to launch a campaign to excite and energise 11-18 year olds about opportunities in the creative industries.

Discover Creative Careers Week 2024 Launches!

Thousands of young people across England will be taking part in careers activities with hundreds of creative industry employers during Discover! Creative Careers Week 2024, 18th  – 22nd November

Regional growth in creative industries hinges on expanding employment opportunities

Discover! Creative Careers, an England wide industry-led programme, is today urging employers in the creative industries to step up their time investment in the workforce, as a growing skills gap threatens to hinder the sector's ability to thrive.

Discover! Creative Careers Celebrating Funding Announcement

We were thrilled that the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget has prioritised funding for an expansion of the Discover Creative Careers programme. Our Programme Lead Mary Rose had the following statement to make regarding the announcement that the Chancellor’s Budget underscored just how important the creative sectors are...

Students from Brent exhibit posters created during Discover! Week 2023

In May 2024, thirty students from the Ark Academy in Brent, London launched an exhibition featuring their powerful anti-knife crime posters created during their workshop with media agency Zeno London during Discover! Creative Careers Week 2023.

Celebrating Discover! Creative Careers Week 2023

Taking place from 13th - 17th November 2023, Discover! Creative Careers Week saw thousands of young people across England take part in careers activities with hundreds of creative industry employers.

Mary Rose joins Discover Creative Careers as Programme Lead

We're delighted to welcome Mary Rose who has joined ScreenSkills to develop and manage the 2023 - 2025 Discover Creative Careers programme, funded by the Department for Media, Culture and Sport with additional support from Arts Council England.

Critically acclaimed poet Luke Wright celebrates working in the creative industries

To mark the Discover Creative Careers 2023 - 2025 programme launch, we commissioned critically-acclaimed poet Luke Wright to write a brand-new poem celebrating the lesser-known jobs that exist in the creative industries.

Creative Careers Programme wins award for Innovative Employer Engagement Activity

Discover! Creative Careers is celebrated at the Careers Development Awards and Fellowships.

Discover Creative Careers website launched

One-stop-shop website for careers information for young people launched by the Creative Careers Programme

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