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.
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...
Communications Assistant Vacancy We are looking for a Communications Assistant. This is a newly created role for 2025-2026 responsible for supporting the expanding communications function and the Communications Manager to deliver the continued implementation of the Discover! Creative Careers communications strategy until March 2026, ensuring promotion of the programme and its aims reaches and engages with its key target audiences and stakeholders through a range of channels.
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