Current Projects
Mapping the Change
Journalism Programme 2011-2012
Words of Colour Productions, our community enterprise arm, is project managing the Mapping the Change Journalism Programme. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and led by Hackney Museum, the programme is being run in Hackney and Waltham Forest in partnership with Vestry House Museum. The programme consists of a seven week journalism course for non-journalists who will be trained to produce stories influenced by the London 2012 Games. Their work will appear in two specially designed newspapers, which will form part of the museums’ objects. After a successful 2010 pilot launch, the programme will also be run in Hackney in 2012. To find out more visit Waltham Forest and Hackney
“This course gave me an excellent grounding in the basic principles of news and feature writing. I’d really recommend this course to anyone who wants to start a career in journalism. All the students brought something different to the final newspaper, which we are really proud of.”
Katy Palmer
Participant
Mapping the Change Journalism Programme 2010
Cultural Consultation Service
The Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) has commissioned The Creative Collective Media to develop an ongoing communications package as part of its relaunch. This includes, a brand refresh, a new website, marketing materials including business cards and information pack, and ongoing PR and communications consultancy to raise its profile among its target audience and in the relevant media. We are also providing training to the core team in communications, media relations and marketing. The Creative Collective Media is delivering on this project with Macrojuice, Hurricane Press and Marina Rose Design Studio.
ROTA
Race on the Agenda (ROTA) has commissioned The Creative Collective Media to revamp, refresh and edit two of their policy publications – the biannual Supplement and the annual Agenda. We redesigned both publications and produced two editions of Supplement and one edition of Agenda. Our work includes producing the products from start to finish from design and commissioning the contributors to printing and delivery.
To see a copy of the latest Supplement, click here
Ealing LINk
The Creative Collective won the tender to produce a marketing and communications portfolio for Ealing LINk, one of the Local Involvement Networks funded by the Department of Health across the country. Made up of individuals and community groups such as faith groups and residents association, LINks work to improve health and social care services. We are producing a promotional DVD, information pack, poster campaign, new branding templates including their newsletter, photography, media relations and a marketing and PR strategy. We are delivering on this project with Sharron Wallace Photography, Marmoset Media and filmmaker Linda Mason.
The Afiya Trust
The Afiya Trust is a national charity that works to reduce inequalities in health and social care provision for people from racialised communities. Since 2009, The Creative Collective Media has been facilitating the ongoing development of its internal and external communications strategies including Catalyst, a new quarterly BME health and wellbeing glossy newsletter, a new website, ‘backchat’ a new social networking portal, and the inaugural Afiya Awards launch in 2011. We are also developing an internship programme for the charity to access young talent as well as provide mapping, PR, and media relations consultancy to ensure BME health and social care delivery and mental wellbeing is kept on the central government’s agenda.
For more information visit: www.afiya-trust.org
Media Diversity Institute
The Creative Collective Media provides training, facilitation and consultancy in the UK and overseas for the Media Diversity Institute (MDI), which encourages responsible media coverage of diversity. We co-created the first international interactive event on diversity, media and the digital divide in 2009, and presented and facilitated at the Media4 Diversity in New EU Countries conference in Bucharest on 28-30 May 2010 as part of an ongoing media diversity programme led by MDI and the European Commission. We have just developed a module for a new international MA in Media and Diversity created by MDI, to be launched in 2011 at the University of Westminster.
Fair Share Trust Brent
We have been commissioned to deliver an 18 month programme of community development and media-related activities for Fair Share Trust Brent, which is part of the Community Foundation Network. Our social enterprise arm Words of Colour Productions will be working with the Trust to raise the profile of its programmes, develop a new website, train local people to be community and online reporters and produce a special newspaper for distribution in the wider community.
Some Recent Projects
Aik Saath
Aik Saath, meaning together as one, works with young people to become peer trainers in the promotion of peace and racial harmony through conflict resolution and anti racism skills. The acclaimed charity trains over 1000 young people each year. Aik Saath has commissioned The Creative Collective to rebrand the organisation in collaboration with its young people.
World Development Movement (WDM)
The World Development Movement, a campaigning charity that tackles the root causes of poverty, campaigns for fairer world trade and climate debt and lobbies government and corporations for change, has commissioned The Creative Collective to provide tailored training in media relations to its member organisations and interested parties in England and Scotland. We recently developed bespoke online media relations materials for its groups nationally.
WPF Therapy
WPF Therapy is one of the largest charitable providers of counselling and psychotherapy in England and is the leading provider of training for counsellors and psychotherapists with a wide range of accredited training programmes. The Creative Collective provides ongoing consultancy in media, PR and marketing and tailored internal communications and marketing training for the senior management team.
Making the Connection: PR, Diversity & Public Engagement
The Creative Collective hosted the first of its annual themed events, a one day seminar – Making the Connection: PR, Diversity & Public Engagement – at the Wellcome Trust, London, on Wednesday 26th May 2010. Speakers included Loraine Martins, Head of Equality & Inclusion, Olympic Delivery Authority; Paul Mylrea Head of Press & Media Relations, BBC; Maurice Mcleod, Executive Editor, Engage magazine; Vicky Reeves, Founder and Managing Director, Chameleon Net, Afua Hirsch, Legal Affairs Correspondent, The Guardian and Sue Caro, Senior Diversity Manager (Portrayal), BBC.
Click here to download the flyer
Click here to download the programme
Runnymede Trust
The respected and pioneering 40-year-old race equality think tank recently commissioned The Creative Collective to facilitate the development of a communications strategy, rebranding including a dynamic new logo, and enhanced website and social media process in partnership with staff and management. We delivered the portfolio with our strategic partner Marina Rose Design and our new partner Rewired State.
Croydon Health Champions
Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA) has commissioned The Creative Collective to deliver training programmes in response to the Government’s Choosing Health agenda and in partnership with Croydon Primary Care Trust and the London Borough of Croydon. An integral part of the programme is that all participants lead on their own health project as part of the course.
Recognition project
The Creative Collective has been commissioned to manage the development of this exciting project to improve community development practitioners’ access to the relevant academic accreditation to officially endorse their skills and abilities. The project involves the provision of bespoke information, advice and guidance to practitioners and their employers alongside the development of a work-based learning model of endorsement of practice. We are working in partnership with a number of universities, the London Civic Forum and Linking London.
Community Safety Advisory Service (CSAS)
The Creative Collective is assisting CSAS (Community Safety Advisory Service) on the development and delivery of relevant training programmes for its members on topics such as community safety, equalities and diversity, engaging the media and core messages. We are also providing tailored PR and media consultancy to facilitate the launch of a major anti social behaviour initiative in 2010.
Oxfam GB
One of the world’s leading aid and development charities has commissioned The Creative Collective to support the development and implementation of its Diversity and Inclusion strategy in its trading division. This work is being delivered through training and consultancy with senior managers, staff and volunteers.
CVA Xpress project
Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA) has commissioned The Creative Collective to provide tailored strategic support to a community development project. Working alongside part-time and sessional workers we are creating a strategic approach to sustain and develop Croydon Xpress, an innovative children and young people’s participation project. The project will stimulate and support greater participation from children and young people to affect change and improvements in the London Borough of Croydon.
British Council Southern Africa
The Creative Collective, in collaboration with leading virologist Dr Sheila Ochugboju and the British Council Southern Africa, devised and delivered a year long programme to facilitate Science Communicators to launch Africa’s first ever African Science Cafes. Two week-long training programmes were delivered to 30 Science Communicators from South Africa and Kenya during the high profile SciFest 2007 in Grahamstown and British Council’s Science Week 2008. In addition, The Creative Collective provided media and PR support for the programme and worked with Marina Rose Design Solutions to produce a new logo for the cafés and an online toolkit.
Hawksmere
Since 2007 The Creative Collective has been commissioned by Hawksmere to deliver two annual presentations on media and diversity at its Successful PR and Regional Media conferences to industry professionals from the private, voluntary and public sectors.
The Cut Newspaper
A partnership between Hardcore Is More Than Music and the Paddington Development Trust with facilitation by The Creative Collective, The Cut is a cutting edge quarterly colour newspaper produced by talented teenagers. The Creative Collective helped devise the curriculum and delivers on the weekly journalism programme, which all the contributors attend, as well as supervise the newspaper’s editorial and production process.
Film It
Mediabox funded Film It to recruit The Creative Collective to facilitate the award-winning charity with its marketing and promotion strategy and various campaigns. The workshops addressed brand awareness, core messages, campaigning and strategic communications. Future engagement will focus on individual campaigns, attracting volunteers and fundraising.
Kick Start London
The Creative Collective is training the charity’s staff and managers in developing an equality action plan and the use of their complaints procedure. These programmes have run alongside facilitating team building sessions with staff and managers throughout the year.
East London NHS Foundation Trust
The Creative Collective was commissioned by the Trust’s Diversity Leads to devise and deliver a revisioning and action planning session for the cross sector BME Forum Group to address the legal expectations around the new equalities legislation and how best to serve people, particularly from BAME backgrounds, experiencing mental ill health in East London.
Welsh Assembly Government Communities First Projects
Communities First is the Welsh Assembly’s flagship anti poverty project covering the whole of Wales. The Creative Collective devised and delivered tailored training on media engagement, internal and external communications and marketing over a three month period to the Partnership Board, residents and staff team at Communities First Higher Shotton, and for the Project Coordinators covering North Wales.
Enfield Community Empowerment Network (ECEN)
The Creative Collective delivers training to ECEN’s members on assertiveness, report writing, time management, marketing and promotion and team building, and has successfully developed a code of practice for and bespoke training to BME Partnership Board Representatives and the chairs of the Mental Health, Learning Difficulties and Health and Social Care Partnership Boards.
Transport for London (TfL)
The Creative Collective was commissioned by TfL to develop a pilot community engagement project for the Bangladeshi community in the Spitalfields area and to create and project manage a press office internship programme for candidates from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities.
Stepladder Foundation
The Creative Collective provide media consultancy and personal development packages to future high achievers from African Caribbean and under-represented Asian communities to expand their career opportunities in business and media. We recently developed a media and marketing strategy for Stepladder annual fundraising dinner. Guest speakers included renowned opera star Willard White and political campaigner Oona King.
Brent Youth Service
As editorial consultants The Creative Collective is assisting youth project members to develop a six-yearly four-page pull out supplement for the Harrow and Wembley Observer.
