ArtHouse Project x Achieving Potential Launches The Creative Industries Project
We are excited to announce that the Creative Industries Project has officially landed!
In January 2021 Single Homeless Project was awarded funding from the ScottishPower Foundation. The funding has been used to create the Creative Industries Project (CIP) as part of our existing creative programme, run by SHP’s art-based programme – ArtHouse and SHP’s employment initiative – Achieving Potential.
The Creative Industries Project aims to enhance the connection between the two services for the benefit of clients through the provision of training courses, employability support and work placements, to support people moving further along the road of education and employment within the creative industries in London.
“At SHP, we recognise the importance of creativity as a highly successful engagement tool and have witnessed some beautiful work and moments come out of our hostel services over the past 5 years with support from SHP’s art programme – Arthouse. We are now looking to take it to the next step and support our clients into the world of creative work. We believe that through high quality creative training with professional artists, carefully structured programming and the supportive placement providers we can help our clients move towards building a career in the creative industries.”
– Arthouse, Creative Arts Manager, Meghan
We’ll be supporting clients through the ‘My Creative Journey’ process, focusing on three key areas:
Skills Development
This is where the real fun begins! We will deliver 9-week exciting creative training courses across SHP services with leading industry professionals in:
Film-making
Jewellery-making
Carpentry
2. Professional Confidence
To ensure the skills clients learnt from the training courses are transferred into the world of creative work, SHP’s Achieving Potential team will support participants with regular 1-2-1s, CV/portfolio workshops and job searching.
3. Professional Experience
If a client fancies working in an environment where their creative skills can flourish, then we will be offering a range of employment opportunities for client’s with our industry placement providers; from voluntary work, further training and paid job roles.
For up to date information on our Enrolment Events & Courses head to the ArtHouse Project Webpage.
Or check out the Creative Industries Project Calendar below.
For more information please download the ‘Client Handbook’ below. If your client has expressed interest to enrol onto one of the courses please contact creativeindustries@shp.org.uk for more information.
We’re always looking to expand our Work Placement Provider Network to offer employment opportunities to our clients. If you know of a creative organisation that is interested to get involved please share the ‘Placement Provider Handbook’ below and contact ESmith@shp.org.uk for more information.
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