Current Projects
Making the Connection: PR, Diversity & Public Engagement
The Creative Collective is hosting an inaugural one day seminar – Making the Connection: PR, Diversity & Public Engagement at the Wellcome Trust, London, on Wednesday 26th May 2010. Speakers include 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.
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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. The Creative Collective is facilitating the development of its internal and external communications strategy including a new website, social networking portal, a new BME health and social care magazine, mapping and PR and media consultancy to ensure BME health and mental well being is kept on the national policy and political agendas.
Hackney Museum
Hackney Museum has commissioned Words of Colour, an arts and media project hosted by The Creative Collective, to develop and deliver a tailored media programme as part of its Mapping the Change 2012 project. A unique history project funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund, our contribution will enable 20 adults to learn journalism skills and generate original stories about the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games on their lives and communities. A special newspaper will be produced and displayed as part of a multimedia exhibition at the museum.
Media Diversity Institute
The Creative Collective will be contributors and speakers 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 the Media Diversity Institute and the European Commission. Other partners include the Council of Europe, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency and the Centre for Independent Journalism, Romania.
World Development Movement
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.
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 has been appointed to provide ongoing consultancy in media, PR and marketing and to provide tailored marketing training for the senior management team.
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.
Transport for London’s Smarter Travel Unit
Transport for London’s Smarter Travel Unit commissioned The Creative Collective to produce a feasibility study to identify different diversity models, the best way to engage culturally diverse communities and the level of awareness of the concept and practice of ‘smarter’ travel planning among BAME professionals.
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.
