The latest announcement of the second round of Creative Access and McLaren Racing’s Career Development Bursary recipients has been featured in DiversityQ. The outlet highlighted the increased demand for the bursary and wrote: “Sixty-one people working in the creative industries will receive vital funding for equipment, training, driving lessons and travel costs to support their […]

60% increase in applicants reveals impact of cost-of-living crisis on career progression of those from under-represented groups    Creative Access, the leading social enterprise in progressive career development and support, and McLaren Racing have today announced that 61 people working in the creative industries will receive vital funding for equipment, training, driving lessons and travel costs […]

Creative Access development director, Elonka Soros, reflects on our work over the past year and what key diversity and inclusion concepts employers need to know for going into 2023… As I start the year prepping new projects for 2023, I’ve been reflecting on a busy 2022 Creative Access year of activity. It’s been a pleasure […]

The Mo Siewcharran Fund has awarded its latest round of grants to four dynamic, creative organisations across publishing, theatre and music: Good Chance Theatre,  Mark Rubinstein Ltd, Sound and Music and Edinburgh International Book Festival.    The Fund was set up five years ago in memory of Nielsen Books’ former director of marketing and communications, […]

Edinburgh Book Festival is one of four organisations to have been awarded a grant from the Mo Siewcharran Fund in its latest round, Lauren Brown writes in The Bookseller.

What a year 2022 was! From celebrating our 10 year anniversary to launching our first career development bursary and steering group, there were lots of reasons to celebrate. We’re so proud to have recruited new candidates, matched more mentoring partnerships, worked with existing and new employer partners, and continued supporting our ever-growing community in our […]

Anna Bonet writing in i News has listed Creative Access as one of the ’50 reasons to be optimistic about 2023′ amongst organisations such as Arts Council and Greenpeace UK, as well as the upcoming Eurovision and the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Bonet states: Creative Access will champion more under-represented talent Under-represented and disabled talent […]

Lauren Brown in The Bookseller has reported on Creative Access’ new appointments to its programmes team including Yasmin Hemmings as acting head of programmes and Bhavini Goyate and Jolie Hockings as programme managers to “enhance ongoing support and training for its interns and alumni from groups under-represented in the creative economy.” Read the article here.

Creative Access, a leading diversity, equity and inclusion social enterprise, is today announcing the promotion of Yasmin Hemmings, to acting head of programmes and the appointment of Bhavini Goyate and Jolie Hockings as programmes managers to enhance ongoing support and training for its interns and alumni from groups under-represented in the creative economy.  Hemmings is […]

Ellie Khan has reported on Creative Access’ disability report 2022, highlighting the finding that “career-building networks are closed to 75% of disabled creatives”. Read the article in full.

The global title read by presidents and entrepreneurs, the Financial Times hosted the last Creative Access masterclass of the year at its London offices yesterday. Likeminded individuals, hungry to learn about the world of journalism, gathered to hear from our esteemed panel spanning editorial, diversity and inclusion, photography, and technology. 

Gus Alexiou has discussed Creative Access’ latest research on disabled workers in his article for Forbes about the importance of disabled job seekers knowing their legal rights. Alexiou mentions that the research shows that: “Many such experiences revolve around employers failing to make appropriate workplace accommodations to allow them to operate at an optimum level […]