Becoming a host organisation and available support
Becoming a Targeted Traineeship Host Organisation
We are looking to partner with local cultural and creative organisations in the Rotherham and wider South Yorkshire region who will work together as a consortium to interrogate and improve their current working environments.
Partners who become ‘host organisations’ through this programme will make a commitment to developing strategies for diversifying their workforce and embedding accessibility throughout their organisations. A significant part of this commitment will include creating new trainee roles within the organisation that are designed for young people with disabilities.
Local children and young people have told us that their definition of culture is an all-encompassing one, that includes arts, crafts and creative activities, sport and leisure, and identity and heritage. As such, we are welcoming a wide range of organisations from different sectors to apply to host Children’s Capital of Culture trainees within this targeted traineeship programme.
Support Host Organisations will receive
For the first year of delivery (2026/27) trainees’ wages and on-costs will be fully funded by Children’s Capital of Culture. For the second year of delivery (2027/28) they will be 50% funded and in the third year (2028/29) they will be 25% funded. Host organisations will be expected to make up the remainder of this cost from their own funding sources.
In addition, host organisations will be able to access creative programming and access budgets each year the programme runs for.
Training and consultation delivered by disability specialists within the cultural industries will be embedded into the programme to support and guide organisations.
This includes group training sessions and one-to-one support, which would be fully funded by CCoC.
CCoC’s Creative Skills Manager will support the management of the programme and work alongside two part-time Skills Mentors, who will offer workplace and creative support to trainees placed across all host organisations who are part of the programme.