OPPORTUNITIES PAGE

On this page, we will share all of our live and archived opportunities. From public engagement projects, creative opportunities, mentoring, training, and research projects. Keep an eye on this page to find out more about how you can work with us. If you need to get in touch with us, you can via our contact page. You can also keep up to date with us if you sign up to our substack newsletter at the bottom of this page.

Co-Designing opportunities

Are you an aspiring designer? Do you want to increase your work experience? Are you looking for opportunities to develop your designer or artist CV? Are you diagnosed or undiagnosed neurodivergent?

Here at Creative Heritage Studios CiC we have an open application opportunity for young designers and artists between the ages of 19-25. We are specifically intersted in connecting with young creatives that are diagnosed or undiagnosed neurodivergent.

Our Process

Through the projects that we are involved in we create opportunities for co-designing with young designers. This is a collabroative process where we give you access to live briefs where you can understand how to meet the needs of a private client. Your involvement will be determined by the client brief.

The aim of this work is to help with the following:

  • Build your confidence

  • Provide you with work experience

  • Increase your understanding of working for clients

  • Use design thinking to problem solve

  • Increased awareness of how to protect your work as a designer

  • Developing your creative CV

This is an open application and we will contact you when we have available opportunities.

TYNE DERWENT WAY - IN A BOX PROJECT

A new creative project, bringing together neurodiverse young people and professional artists, will get underway in January.

Tyne Derwent Way in a Box was one of the engagement projects that community groups across Gateshead talked about last winter as part of 'PicknMix'.

Lucy Zwolinska, who leads on community engagement, said: "PicknMix involved us asking community groups to vote on which community engagement activities they'd like to happen on the Tyne Derwent Way last winter. Over 100 people who live, work or volunteer in Gateshead across 13 different community groups, voted, and Tyne Derwent Way in a Box came in the top three!"

The project was described as:

"This project will invite neurodivergent young people to visit the Tyne Derwent Way themselves and create the Tyne Derwent Way 'in a box'. The box will be full of sensory items and stories that they can then show people living in their community who can't physically visit the rivers."

And that's exactly what it will be! We've joined forces with Creative Heritage Studios as the lead creative producer, who are making it happen - read on to find out what it will look like and how you can get involved.

Join Tyne Derwent Way in a Box!

Are you between the ages of 14 and 19, love being creative, a natural problem solver and want to be involved in a creative project? Then this opportunity is for you! Along with Creative Heritage Studios, we have curated a series of workshops for a group of neurodiverse young people to attend.

Work with professional artists to create sensory boxes about the nature along Gateshead's riversides. These fun and informal sessions are full of creative opportunities to learn new skills.

Applications are still open - this project ends in March of 2025

FULLY FUNDED MENTORING

FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Are you a social enterprise? Do you want to start 2025 with a plan to have more income that isn’t traditional funding?

Our Director Corinne Lewis-Ward has been appointed as a mentor for social enterprises. You can access fully funded mentoring with Corinne if you are

• A socially trading organisation.

• Based in Newcastle, Northumberland or North Tyneside

• Are available to complete mentoring by March 2025

DOWNLOAD THE EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FORM BELOW DETAILING YOUR REQUIREMENTS. YOU WILL HAVE TO ACT FAST AS PLACES ARE LIMITED AND MENTORS AND MENTEES WILL BE MATCHED BY THE MIDDLE OF JANUARY 2025

As part of NECA's commissioned Sharing with Purpose programme, I am available to provide mentoring to socially trading organisations in Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside to support them to develop and grow. Between January and March the programme will be making mentoring matches – to find out more contact enquiries@peertopeernetwork.co.uk

WHAT CAN YOUR MENTORING SESSIONS COVER?

Matchmaking for mentors and mentees will begin in January 2025. If you would like to work with Corinne you will need to fill out an expression of interest form. Mentoring sessions with Corinne could cover the following areas:

● Creating Minimum Viable Products
● Marketing Strategy
● Customer profiling to better understand your offer
● Market research strategies
● Product design & development
● Minimising financial risk when developing products and services
● Customer interaction and harnessing this to help grow your social enterprise
● Simple and easy business planning
● How to work with British manufacturers and suppliers, especially local suppliers
● How to create varied revenue streams to make your social enterprise more sustainable and help organisations become less reliant on unpredictable traditional funding.
● Thinking more like a business and exploring the benefits of financial autonomy versus relying on funding
● How to use design to emotionally connect with your customer base/clients
● Harnessing the power of creativity to connect with your customers/clients

Download the form below and email it to admin@creativeheritagestudios.co.uk

This opportunity closes at the ed of February 2025