The company has now been registered with Companies House for just over a month, moving it from a frenzy* of freelancers into a more structured legal entity.
*I am confident this is the correct collective noun.
In the past few weeks, some wonderful connections have been made and new ideas taking shape.
I have been working closely to develop the Talent Match youth enterprise programme delivery with Dv8 Sussex and Prince's Trust - including leading an intensive day workshop on coaching skills for some leading creative entrepreneurs from across Sussex.We continue to support The Original Theatre Company on their 5 year strategic plan, audience connections and fundraising. Their current show, Flare Path, has just launched its UK tour so do try and catch if it is coming near you. I went to see it in Eastbourne, but ended up drinking too long with the cast and missed my last train home. I recommend that you don't do that.
I have been dallying with the Digital Catapult Centre, looking at how the dots are being joined up in the world of tech and digital in Brighton - finding more about the ways in which data analysis is meeting creative design. Some interesting collaborations between the universities, LEPs and tech industry on the horizon, but still early days. A big 'digital exchange' site has been built at the bottom of Brighton's New England House so that the media companies can benefit from cheap and fast broadband without having to rely on the usual channels. At a networking event, I met and talked mentoring with a software engineer from American Express.
I went along to my first Atoms Collide event this week, an informal round-table ideas exchange, which was friendly and welcoming. I made a faux pas by giving out my business card (it is not a networking event), but still explored other people's interesting projects - which included solving a famous Icelandic crime mystery through writing and photography and hosting a series of events in October with people whose job is to make others terrified (think horror film effects artists etc).
As well as organisational consultancy, the main thrust of my company is project development, and brokering relationships between people, ideas and positive outcomes. Some key partnerships are being created to make the ideal become the pragmatic and to share skillsets and experience. will formalise this slightly more on the website, but here is a list of current always possible projects, either quite far developed or very early stages:
- A leadership development programme for emerging executives in the FE & skills sector - focused on values-led leadership, emotional intelligence and organisational cultures.
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- A creative financial literacy project, initially aimed at KS4 students with low maths attainment. Exploring the 'value' and projection of money, and how we use can truly understand the concepts of debt, credit and interest as mathematical ideas - but all social and personal ones.
Partner: Goodmoney
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- A youth social action project, developing a Cultural Manifesto with young people living in rural areas in order to influence local authority and LEP decisions on cultural and investment in creative opportunity and skills.
Partner: Culture Shift
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- A long-form mentoring project for 16-29 year olds in key areas of socio-economic disadvantage in Sussex and Surrey + a re-thinking of employability development through regular innovative Job Clubs for young people facing long-term unemployment.
Partners: Dv8 Sussex, The Girls' Network, A Band of Brothers, Catch 22, Youthforce
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- An enterprise coaching programme for unemployed 18-24 year olds in Bexhill, Hastings & Eastbourne who want to explore self-employment or a business start-up idea.
Partners: Dv8 Sussex, The Prince's Trust, Tomorrow's People
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- A digital resource pilot, developing models of blended learning of digital/classroom engagement with vocational skills tutors across Sussex.
Partners: Sussex Council of Training Providers, Sussex Learning Network
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- A theatre crowd-funding and audience development project to take a piece of experimental new writing on a major regional UK tour in late 2016.
Partner: The Original Theatre Company
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- A resilience skills project for 14-19 year olds in coastal West Sussex towns, incorporating sea (surfing), forest (woodland skills) and sky (creating supersized tall outdoor sculpture).
Partner: TBC
If you're interested to find out more, or have funding for a project and need some assistance getting it off the ground, please give us a call
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