Esteem and our supply partners are delighted to be supporting the Generation Hull project in partnership with the city’s Local Cultural Education Partnership (LCEP). The funding will support their new three-year programme called “Fight for Our Creative Future”, a name chosen by the young people who developed the project, providing opportunities for children in Hull to have a career pathway into creative industries without having to leave the city.
With the current focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), arts and culture can be squeezed out of the academic life of our schools, and this project will see:
- Schools and youth organisations developing their own Arts Councils
- Safe spaces to develop skills, explore issues and showcase work
- Work placements and apprenticeships in the creative cultural organisations in our city
- A children and young people focused art and cultural strategy for the city
Esteem’s donation of £150,000, made possible by contributions from its local supply chain partners, will support children and young people to access 60 work placements and 10 apprenticeships across the creative industries in Hull.
Dominic Gibbons, Chair of Hull & East Yorkshire Creative, said:
“This is a wonderful investment in the young people of Hull and a great example of many different sectors in the city coming together to support the critical role that arts and culture play on the development of young people, whether to have a career in the arts or to become creative engineers, scientists or teachers.
We have a great richness of cultural organisations across the city but face a significant skills gap currently and in the future in the sector. I am delighted that our young people feel passionate about their potential careers in the creative sector and have called their project “Fight for Our Creative Future”.