PROPEL is our paid work placement programme for early-career creatives working in live performance and events.
PROPEL has connected emerging talent with top festivals, theatres, and performance companies across the North for over two years. For 2025, we’ve partnered with some exciting new hosts in Bradford and West Yorkshire, offering five hands-on paid placements in production, producing, and programming.
Launch the next steps of your career in the live events industry with PROPEL!
PROPEL is generously supported by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture to provide professional development opportunities to Bradford creatives.
Overview
PROPEL is a skills development programme for early-career producing, production and programming professionals connected to Bradford. Not just your usual training programme; PROPEL is designed to equip participants with on-the-job experience to develop a career in live events and performance.
For PROPEL Bradford, we’ve partnered with five exciting host organisations including Bradford 2025 and Common Wealth Theatre, with more placements to be announced.
What’s in it for you? Well, you’ll
- Be paid for your time
- Gain hands-on experience working with professional producers, production managers and programmers to deliver high-quality events
- Have access to additional support and mentoring through Bradford Producing Hub
The Placements
Assistant Director placements
Producer placements
Production placements
Common Wealth Theatre
Production Design Assistant
Apply by Monday 10 February 2025
Programming placements
FAQs
You will have a freelance contract with BPH and we will arrange to pay you the fee. You will be responsible for paying any tax or National Insurance due as part of it. (If you are new to freelancing we can help you understand this).
Yes, we can provide support to meet your access needs and there is a budget available towards travel, as well as for accommodation if occasional overnights are required.
There will be online information sessions where we’ll talk more about the placements and answer any questions you might have. These can be booked on the individual placement pages linked above. You should also do your own research about each host looking at their websites and social media feeds to familiarise yourself.
Yes, but you will only be offered one place. If you apply for multiple, we will make a decision based on what we think would be the best fit. Please be aware that there are staggered application dates for most placements and once you have been offered a place with one host, you won’t be able to switch to another placement.
If you have any other questions, or there’s other information you need, drop us an email to hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
