past projects

Future Talent

2023. Supported by the University of Gloucestershire and the NHS Integrated Care Board.

Future Talent grew out of a series of micro-experiments we ran with the NHS in 2022 and 2023, building the infrastructure for neighbourhood-led arts and health. One question stood out: how do we nurture the talent already here, and open up careers in creative health to more people? With early funding, we brought partners together as the Future Talent steering group to find out.

The steering group set out to understand who gets to work in creative health in Gloucestershire, and how to make that workforce more diverse and better supported. Through creative labs, an online survey of 56 practitioners, focus groups and interviews with diverse artists, and a peer network event, it mapped the routes people take into the sector and the barriers facing those who are under-represented. In 2025 it published a report of findings and recommendations from clearer professional development and an accredited training route to a shared resource bank and an equity, diversity and inclusion group.

Project at a glance

Key partners Artlift and Art Shape (both members of Gloucestershire Creative Health Consortium), Open Arms Artists' Collective, University of Gloucestershire
Strands Talent, skills and creative careers, Creative health and cultural commissioning
Our role Convened

We kickstarted this work and convened the partnership, bringing together organisations with decades of experience in creative health alongside diverse artists and practitioners. Working as equals, we designed, delivered and evaluated the research together, and set out practical steps for a fairer, better connected workforce. The work now continues through the steering group, and it feeds directly into our Create Talent and Create Health programmes.

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Create Your Future - creative careers are possible!
Create Your Future - creative careers are possible!

In Spring this year two Gloucestershire secondary schools took part in a new creative programme called ‘Create Your Future’ (CYF). It was designed by Abi Nicol, founder of Creative Communities, an arts organisation based in Cam & Dursley, supported by Create Gloucestershire and funded by NHS Gloucestershire’s Integrated Care Board.

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How did the Off We Go project go?
How did the Off We Go project go?

Find out more about the Off we Go project and the impact joining in with the activities had on those taking part.

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Asking people to attend a ‘data day’ is not an easy sell.
Asking people to attend a ‘data day’ is not an easy sell.

But we knew it was important and we had a strong desire to make it happen!

Create Gloucestershire were one of the four partners who came together to host the dataday. Back in the Autumn of last year we began conversations to imagine this event. It was going to be unashamedly about data and it was going to inspire, inform and empower everyone who came along. That was the plan.

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Read the Future Talent blog and download the report [add link]

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