Creative Industries News #2 📰
Hello! Welcome back to the ERIC Creative Industries News series📰
We've got another roundup ready for you today - check it out below👇
1) Saatchi & Saatchi to launch their free schools platform
Saatchi & Saatchi have recently announced their new free schools platform 'Upriser', which hopes to introduce, inspire and open up the creative industries to any student in the UK. The agency is calling on other businesses to give support, and will 'help match companies with partner schools across the UK as part of a sustained, long-term commitment to teach lessons, enrol in 1:1 mentoring programmes and offer tangible roads into work for the next generation of talent'.
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2) Burberry in partnership with Leeds 2023
Luxury fashion brand Burberry have announced their partnership with Leeds 2023 on the build up to the opening ceremony. Burberry and Leeds 2023 are massively supporting creative education, with new creative initiatives such as Smeaton300 – a creative events programme which will unite inventive minds across engineering, science, industry and the arts. The brand state that 'supporting creative education is a natural continuation of the brand's ongoing partnership with schools throughout the region' which has included industry-leading initiatives like the ‘Burberry Inspire’ programme, which brought students together with leading arts and cultural institutions - including Leeds Young Film, Northern Ballet and The Hepworth Wakefield - to empower young people to immerse themselves in the arts and uncover their creative potential.
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3) 100 companies sign up for four day week with no loss of pay, after landmark study
We might be one step closer to a four day week! As reported on November 27th, a hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay. This is an incredible milestone on the way to fundamentally changing Britain's approach to the working week.
If you want to hear what some of the companies had to say about the change, check out the article here.
4) Publishing company Hachette increase their starting salaries for entry-level roles alongside a £1,000 cost of living payment
An incredible piece of news that sets an example for other companies within the creative industries that may be able to do the same! Hachette have confirmed plans to increase starting salaries for entry-level roles, alongside providing a £1,000 cost of living payment as of January 2023. This decision was made as part of the organisation’s “holistic review” of salary and holiday entitlement. Due to this change, starting salaries for entry-level roles in publishing functions will increase to £26,500 per annum in London and £23,850 outside London.
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5) Art hub Four Corners is opening their practical filmmaking course in January 2023
Four Corners art hub is opening up their applications for free film and TV training for residents of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest. The hub is known for having alumni bag themselves jobs on the sets of Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Idris Elba's directorial debut Yardie and Disney's live action remake of Pinocchio.
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