Introducing new CG board members this Summer
Welcome to our new board members bringing a wealth of experience to the team. Anne has worked in broadcasting and journalism and led the University of Gloucestershire School of Creative Industries. Jacqueline is a coach and writer and will be our voice for nature, supporting innovative approaches designed to engage creative practitioners, community groups to address the intertwined ecological and climate crises that we are grappling with.
Introducing new CG board members
“We are all creative in our own ways and we all have such potential, but we don’t all have the same opportunities for this to be expressed or realised. It is great to be working with colleagues at Create Gloucestershire to positively address this challenge.” Matt Little, Chair
Leadership Conversations: Vicci Livingstone Thompson
Leadership Conversation No.7
Vicci Livingstone Thompson is CEO of Inclusion Gloucestershire - a charity and user led organisation run for and by disabled people. Her strong leadership style and passion for collaborative working and co-production is evident. Vicci talks to Louise Emerson about her own life experience, the challenges and opportunities that have arisen through the Covid pandemic and a sustainable future for Inclusion Glos.
Leadership Conversations: Sally Byng on ‘Unlearning’ assumptions about leadership
Leadership Conversation No.6
For our next leadership conversation Sally has focused her thoughts on the importance of inner work; our own ‘personal leadership’ which is rooted in values that guide us when making decisions about how to react, respond and behave…
Leadership Conversations: Louise Emerson reminds us to be curious, in order to adapt
Leadership Conversation No.5
We are delighted to continue our leadership conversations with Louise Emerson who is a business consultant in the cultural & charity sector. Louise was previously CEO of Cheltenham Festivals and Head of Commercial Strategy at the Natural History Museum. She is an accredited Coach/Mentor working with leaders and managers in the NHS, Media, Culture, Pharma sectors, as well as, entrepreneurs.
Leadership Conversations: Meet Bren - Gloucestershire resident, volunteer and citizen leader!
Leadership Conversation No.4
In the fourth of our leadership conversations we hosted an online chat with Bren McInerney – a well-known Gloucestershire resident, volunteer and citizen leader!
Leadership conversations: how to find a voice for those who don't have one
Leadership Conversation No.3
Aysha Randera works in women’s development at the Friendship café in Gloucester. She has been successfully designing and implementing ways to give the unrepresented a voice for a very long time both within the local inner city community and more widely, you could say her leadership journey started when she was 14yrs old. She is a participant on the Catalyst Leadership programme run by Create Gloucestershire and Nowhere.
Leadership Conversations: Why good leaders need to liberate creativity to re-build a better world after Covid 19.
Leadership Conversation No.2
It is a cliché now to say that the world has changed. But it has and the consequences for Leaders will be profound. - the virus has reinforced the case for the kind of changes that were already needed and has, maybe, created a world more prepared to accept radical shifts.
Leadership Conversations: Baroness Rennie Fritchie talks about what to do when you don't know where to start...
Leadership Conversation No.1
Baroness Rennie Fritchie kicks off our exploration into leadership - with a story which is far from conventional.
catalyst: applications for Train the Trainers – an Opportunity
We are looking for 2-3 people interested in taking part in a new Train the Trainers course starting in February 2020. Create Gloucestershire (CG) is offering this opportunity to meet additional need in our team for facilitators, trainers and coaches as we grow over the next 3 years. You don’t need to be a coach, trainer or facilitator to apply: we are more interested in finding people with a passion to bring about individual and creative change in Gloucestershire with an open and optimistic mind set.
My time as a Cultural Leadership Trainee at Gloucestershire Libraries
Aimee is currently on a creative leadership programme with Gloucester Culture Trust, working for Gloucestershire Libraries and for two days a week at Strike A Light. She helps engage with people through creative projects based in libraries across Gloucester.
We caught up with her 3 months into her traineeship…
The Creative Leadership Trainee Programme
In March 2019, Gloucester Culture Trust launched the Creative Leadership Trainee Programme. The aim: to nurture the future creative leaders of today.
The programme has created four full-time, year-long jobs within four of Gloucester’s creative organisations, all of which are fully funded by the Creative Entrepreneurs strand of the city’s Great Place project. This area of our work, which we call JOLT, is about creating opportunities and a supportive space which enables people to work and make a living in the creatives industries, right here in Gloucester.
catalyst: a development programme for people in Gloucestershire who want to kickstart and sustain change
We are delighted to have been selected by Arts Council England to develop a leadership development programme to address specific issues around diversity in leadership - amongst 18 fabulous other projects nationwide. We will be posting more about our project in the coming weeks but in the meantime please take a look at the ace website to find out more about the programme.
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/fund…/transforming-leadership Arts Council England