Create Glos
Increasing access to arts and culture for everyone across Gloucestershire
We're Create Gloucestershire. Since 2011 we've helped more people across the county make, lead and shape creative life where they live.
Looking for arts jobs, funding, events or volunteering?
Visit our Opportunities noticeboardWho we are
We are a not-for-profit organisation growing creative life in communities across Gloucestershire, bringing people together to make and lead change, and sharing what we learn so good ideas can take root more widely.
What we do
Our work joins up as five connected programmes.
Create Local
Neighbourhood creative alliances, and funds held and decided locally.
Visit Create Local →Create Talent
Routes into creative careers for young people across Gloucestershire.
Visit Create Talent →How we work
Everything grows from the CG Mix, our approach to generating creative collective action. On our Learning page you can download resources, reports and toolkits to use in your own work.
Opportunities noticeboard
We champion, convene and connect Gloucestershire's creative communities, and our Opportunities noticeboard is one way we do it. It brings arts jobs, funding, events and volunteering from across the county into one place: our own listings sit at the top, with more from other organisations below.
Looking for arts jobs, funding, events or volunteering?
Being Me Club for 16-25 year olds
Low-social pressure, creative space for autistic girls & non-binary people
Fortnightly, Cheltenham
Stroud District Council's Sustainable Economy Fund is now open for applications.
Round 1 closes on 22 November 2026.
UpFront Survivors Gloucester: Creative Writing
Join us on Tuesday 3rd November from 10.30am - 1pm for our very first monthly creative meetup for adult CSA survivors & allies.
03 November 2026, 10:30 AM
Gas Projects, Eastgate Shopping Centre, Gloucester
Glos Data Day returns on 11th February 2027 with the theme Weathering Change, Growing Together. We’re inviting early session ideas and proposals for workshops, lightning talks, creative activities, display stands and self-organised fringe events, as we explore how Data Day 2027 can spark a wider data movement in Gloucestershire.
Strike A Light are looking for a Board Secretary. We're looking for an organised person with strong admin skills and excellent attention to detail to help our board run smoothly. The role of secretary is a great fit for someone with strong admin skills and an interest in undertaking a paid role within a board or charity.
10 days per year // £170 per day // Deadline 9th November 2026 at 9am
Lanterns at Llanthony with Mindful Clay
Join us for three mindful sessions to create your own ceramic lanterns in the historic Llanthony Secunda Priory!
30th October 10-12PM, 6th November 10-12PM, 20th November 10-12PM - £75 for all three
Frantic Assembly: 3-Day Training Course
This three-day course offers you the opportunity to explore the Frantic Method with one of our practitioners.
Friday 27th - Sunday 29th November - £245
Residential and Non-Residential Places Available
Hawkwood, Stroud
BIG HARMONY singing workshop
Singing in the gorgeous surroundings of St Mary DeCript, Sorrel, Renee and Kirsty will guide you expertly through learning a number of songs, in up to 4 part harmony. The songs we choose come from a range of traditions.
Saturday 7 November, 1:30–5:00pm
St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester
Agatha Christie's The Hollow
Christie's classic country-house mystery! Balancing humour with tragedy, The Hollow, adapted from her 1946 novel, is one of Agatha Christie’s most compelling plays.
26-30 January 2027
Cotswold Playhouse
Cinderford Artspace is recruiting an Artistic Director to join its Management Team. Working alongside the Development Director, you’ll oversee key contracts and Artspace’s artistic direction. 24 hours/week (3 days by arrangement); £19/hour (£23,712 annually; £39,520 FTE).
Deadline: 5pm, 9 November 2026. Interviews: 25 November
Cinderford
A fortnightly night of DJs in the heart of Stroud, raising funds to keep our doors open. All welcome!
Friday 23 October, 7pm–11pm
1 Kendrick Street, Stroud
Hawkwood is Hiring a New Programme Manager
We're looking for our next Programme Manager, an exciting opportunity to shape and curate the future of our programme across arts and creativity, wellbeing, climate and sustainability, and transformative leadership.
DEADLINE: 12pm on Monday 26th October
Hawkwood, Stroud
This showcase event brings together the artists taking part in the programme, who’ll perform their original music live, some for the first time in Gloucester. Expect a mix of emerging solo artists, singers, rappers and MC’s, with a special guest joining us on the night. Come along, support new talent and hear some of the artists shaping the region’s next generation of new music.
Sat 14th Nov at 7:00pm-9:30pm
The Music Works, Gloucester
Library users and non-users: could you fill out a survey?
The survey will remain open until Friday 23 October
Online
Redesign, adapt and reimagine textiles in a friendly Tuesday evening class. All abilities welcome.
Tuesdays, 6:30pm–8:30pm, £25 per session
Emergence Commons, 1 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ
Are you ready to help shape a more creative, collaborative and equitable Gloucestershire? Applications are open for the autumn/winter Catalyst Foundation cohort, our free creative leadership course for people who are already making a difference where they live and work. Over five sessions, in person and online, from November 2026 to March 2027, you’ll grow your confidence, your ideas and your collaborations. You don’t need to see yourself as a leader to belong here.
Sort Out Your Annual Report with Christina Poulton - for small charities (or keen CICs!)
Live workshop Wed 21 Oct 2026 + recording | £45
A paid opportunity for young music creatives in Gloucester to join The Multi-Story Orchestra and Strike A Light for an exciting new music project.
Deadline 12 October!
Gloucester
An immersive work of poetry, piano, silence and spoken word, opening a shared space of deep listening where sound, stillness and presence meet with Cassie Yukawa-McBurney and Simon McBurney.
Saturday 17th Oct - 16.30-17.30 — £15.00
Held at Holy Trinity Church. 1 Trinity Rd, Stroud GL5 2H
FREE networking event BY and FOR disabled creatives, and a PAID opportunity to present at the event!
4 November 12.30 - 1.30
PATCH, The Forum, Gloucester, GL1 1DG
Young people aged 14–25 who live in Gloucestershire can apply for a travel bursary.
Free printmaking sessions!
Coleford Library
Tuesday, 3 November
4:30-6:30 pm
Lydney Library
Thursday, 5 November
4:30-6:30 pm
This October half term, families are invited to embark on a magical adventure across Gloucestershire. Armed with a Dragon Keeper Logbook, you'll follow clues, uncover hidden secrets, meet magical characters and explore your local community as you train to become an Apprentice Dragon Keeper.
Dates: Saturday 24th October - Sunday 1 November
Libraries taking part: Dursley, Matson, Hesters Way, Oakley and Cinderford
A rail full of preloved fashion, priced by the kilogram. Come early for the best selection…
Saturday 17 October, 11am–4pm
1 Kendrick Street, Stroud GL5 1AQ
Bring your mending, alterations and sewing questions to our monthly surgery. Hands-on help.
FRIDAY 16 October, 10:30am–12:30pm. £25
1 Kendrick Street, Stroud
Bring unwanted fabric, textiles and haberdashery and swap them for something new.
Free to attend. Friday 23 October, 5pm–7pm
1 Kendrick Street, Stroud
Cam & Dursley Creatives hold informal meetings every 6 weeks for anyone interested in combining energy and resources into the creative lives of the community.
Out next meeting is on:
Wednesday 14 October, 12.30-2pm
Venue: The Garden Room, GL11 Community Hub, Fairmead, Cam GL11 5JS
A network for people in the Forest of Dean interested in making the area a more creative place to live.
Thursday October 29th 12.30pm-2.00pm
The West Dean Centre, High Street, Bream, Lydney, GL15 6JW
Culture Matson meetings are for anyone interested in combining energy and resources into the creative lives of the community.
Wednesday 25th November 2026
Join us in the Walled Garden at Museum in the Park to help keep Emergence Commons open.
Sunday 11 October, 11am–2pm. Free entry.
Museum in the Park, Stroud
Latest news and stories
This autumn we welcomed three new directors to the Create Gloucestershire board. Faatimah Bham, Karl Gluck, and Harriet Hughes.
Our new website is live! Whether you’re after a creative job, a workshop, funding for an idea or the next Create Local gathering, it should now be a couple of clicks away.
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