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Bradford Producing Hub values the support and experience of our peers within the industry. We can pair creatives and organisations with mentors to help support your development and growth. We can fund up to 16 hours of mentoring, divided and delivered in whichever way is best suited to your needs. This could be in small chunks or half-day sessions and is dependent on your and your mentor's availability. We have a database of mentors who are ready to support you, however, if you can identify your own mentor you can let us know too.
Our Mentoring scheme is to support and encourage you to manage your own development, to help you to maximise your potential and develop the skills to become the creative you want to be.
The upcoming deadlines are:
Mentoring can include things like:
✔ Artistic and creative development
✔ Business planning
✔ Brand or marketing development
✔ Career planning
✔ Specific specialisms, like audience development, digital, or evaluation
✔ Anything else that will help you develop your creative career or organisation
It’s important to remember that these are mentoring opportunities – to get support from people with lots of expertise who can help you work through your next steps. It's not for people to do any work for you.
To be eligible you should be able to tick all of these:
✔ You live or work in the Bradford district or you can clearly identify a strong connection to Bradford
✔ You are 18 years old or over
✔ You're an individual or small organisation (with no more than 5 employees and are not NPO funded)
✔ Your developmental goals are clear and achievable
✔ You're involved in making live or visual arts
✔ You have at least 2 years of experience in your practice
Applications should be made using our online application form. For the main application questions, you can complete your answers via text in the form, or by uploading an audio or video file.
To help you prepare your submission, the application questions include:
Other questions that will need to be completed in the form include:
We’re happy to give you advice on your application via email at hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
Please remember that support does not necessarily mean your application will be successful.
We are not able to pay for your time to take part in the mentoring, however, we can cover any support or access costs you may have. We will pay your mentor directly so that they are invested in your sessions and are generous with their knowledge and expertise.
Yes. Please tell us about any access needs or other personal costs you will incur in order to receive mentoring. Access costs could include support people, childcare, translators, adaptations – you tell us what you need.
Yes, we can help with things like free meeting rooms or spaces for your mentoring sessions. We may be able to lend you equipment or other facilities, depending on what you need.
The review process:
We will ask ourselves:
We will send you a confirmation email to arrange a meeting with you to discuss the next steps. If you have a mentor already selected, we will ask you to include them in the meeting as well.
If you want us to suggest a mentor for you, we will review our mentors and advisors database and send you some options that we think would be a good fit. It’s entirely up to you who you choose, and if you don’t feel we have someone suitable already we’ll agree with you on how we should go about identifying and approaching someone different.
Once you have been matched with your mentor, we’ll have a kick-off meeting where we will make sure everyone is clear about what you want to develop, how often you would like to meet with your mentor, how your sessions with your mentor might run, and any additional support you will need. It will all be friendly and informal! Once your mentoring is underway, we might ask you to:
We might suggest another way to support you, e.g. combining similar applications and providing a training opportunity, or putting you in touch with someone who has offered the support in kind. We have a limited amount of funds available and receive more requests than we can support, so please think about what you will do if we can’t provide you with mentoring this time.
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