Current Projects
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.
Community Safety Advisory Service (CSAS)
The Creative Collective is assisting CSAS 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. Bespoke media training covering print and broadcast interviews and writing articles is being created for senior staff. The charity Film It will assist in the delivery.
Salmon Consulting
Since 2007 The Creative Collective has worked with this leadership and management consultancy on a complete rebranding process from name change, new business ethos and logo to business cards and a new website. We are delivering this change programme with one of our strategic partners Marina Rose Design Solutions.
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.
Voluntary Action Lewisham (VAL)
For over five years, The Creative Collective has delivered specialist training to VAL’s staff and members as part of government funded learning programmes. Topics covered include media engagement, marketing and PR and equalities and diversity.
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.
Oxfam
For the past year, The Creative Collective has been working with Oxfam’s diversity team and Press Office on improving the charity’s engagement with South Asian communities across the UK.
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.
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.
Progress South Central
Progress South Central is focused on widening participation and lifelong learning and its head quarters is based at Reading University. The relatively new government initiative is about to launch its newsletter and commissioned The Creative Collective to devise and run a media writing workshop for its staff team and director.
Croydon Voluntary Action
The Creative Collective is participating in the design and delivery of training for Croydon Voluntary Action’s Health Champions programme where local people are trained to promote projects for better health in their communities.
Broadway London
The Creative Collective has been commissioned to deliver tailored training to the organisation’s staff and senior management team on marketing and strategic communications.
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.
Institute of Education (London Centre for Leadership in Learning)
The Creative Collective act as presenters and workshop leaders on Investing in Diversity, an accredited leadership programme for experienced BAME teachers from London secondary schools, and the Leadership Foundation Programme, supporting BAME teachers in preparing to apply for middle management roles.
