Creative Access have news about paid opportunities in the creative industries for BAME interns

Today’s Guest Blog comes from the good people at Creative Access who have lots to tell you about their work, and about opportunities across 12 media and creative sectors. Read on…

For those of you who are not familiar with Creative Access’s work, we are a charity that provides paid internship opportunities in the creative sector for young people from under-represented BAME backgrounds (Black, Asian and non-white Ethnic minorities). We aim to improve diversity within the creative world and address the imbalance in the sector by improving the chances of each of our candidates and helping them secure permanent full-time jobs.

Since launching in 2012 Creative Access has proudly placed 500 talented interns into the creative industries. By adhering to our motto, ‘Media cannot reflect society, if society is not reflected in the media’; we have generated hundreds of internships with more that 200 media partners across the UK in 12 sectors (advertising, book publishing, film, magazine publishing, marketing, music, newspapers, PR, radio, talent, television and theatre).

Here at Creative Access, we make sure that our interns are equipped with all the knowledge and skills that are needed to have a successful career in the creative sector. Each of our interns is assigned a senior mentor at the company they are placed with. We also provide comprehensive training through our monthly masterclass sessions where they are encouraged to network with one another and our experienced panel of industry professionals. Our masterclasses have proven to be a huge success and have been hosted by the House of Commons, The Telegraph, the BBC and Google to name a few.

To date, 80% of our alumni have gone on to secure permanent positions in the creative sector. This fantastic achievement motivates us to continue our mission to ensure that under-represented communities continue to thrive in the creative world.

We are currently advertising a wide range of opportunities with companies such as STUDIOCANAL, National Theatre, Working Title Films, Lime Pictures, The Royal African Society and The Sun Newspaper.

You can take a look at our full range of opportunities here http://creativeaccess.org.uk/opportunities and register with us here http://creativeaccess.org.uk/register to receive regular email updates with our brand new internships.

If there’s anyone or anything you’d like to see in our blog (which is actually your blog, after all) leave a comment or drop us a line at careers@brighton.ac.uk