Children’s Capital of Culture Traineeship Programme

What do host organisations gain from being part of the programme?

  • Wages and on-costs covered for a cohort of new fixed-term, part-time employees, who will be employed with you for either six or eight months.
  • The ability to embed fresh new ideas, creative thinking, and youth voice and decision-making into the heart of your organisations.
  • A pipeline of potential new talent into your organisation; many past host organisations have gone on to offer paid employment to trainees after their initial contracts ended.
  • In some cases, an additional creative programming budget that will enable you to deliver activities as part of the Children’s Capital of Culture Festival Year programme. There are creative programming grants available, ranging in value from £5,000 to £10,000 depending on the scale of the activity you wish to programme.
  • Access to training for core staff that is funded by and scheduled through the central Children’s Capital of Culture team. We have previously run Arts Award Advisor, Gender Awareness and Understanding Autism training for our traineeship hosts. In the future we intend to rerun this training, whilst adding further offers including Trauma-Informed Practice training.
  • Being part of a consortium alongside other host organisations, which provides peer support, shares best practice, and increases opportunities for diversifying funding streams, putting in joint funding bids, and working on collaborative projects.
  • Marketing and communications support that promotes your trainees’ activities and achievements, as well as the events and festivals they’re delivering as part of the Children’s Capital of Culture Festival Year. This ranges from the use of Children’s Capital of Culture-branded marketing assets, like banners, flags and posters, to support from our PR partners to generate media coverage, to being featured across our website, social media channels, and print publications.
  • Central support from the Children’s Capital of Culture team, which can include help with the planning, logistics and staffing of the events your trainees are delivering as part of the Festival Year, administrative support with collecting and inputting monitoring and reporting data, and support with managing safeguarding, health and safety, and data breach challenges.