Creative Leadership & Management Skills Bootcamp
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- Limited places available
- For creative sector managers & leaders
- Fully funded for learners
- Funded 80-100% for organisations
Creative Leaders in Arts, Culture & Digital – Part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
Community CVS are delivering a brand new Creative Leaders in Arts, Culture & Digital – Creative Leadership & Management Skills Bootcamp across Lancashire.
A tailored ten-session programme for arts, culture & digital, designed to develop your hands-on creative leadership skills, including:
- Lead with confiedence, clarity & purpose
- Motivation, mindset & strategy
- Communication, storytelling & pitching
- Building & leading creative teams
- Communities of practice & CPD
- Tools and methods of project management
- Create & disrupt with artificial intelligence
Gain an optional Chartered Management Institute Leadership and Management qualification.
Join a community of creatives: connect with dynamic leaders and managers from your sector.
Proven excellence: our tailor-made programmes have a 9.5/10 average learner feedback score.
Co-created by creative experts & Chartered Fellows of CMI: this engaging programme is crafted with input from Lancashire’s creative & cultural leadership teams, ensuring the skills you acquire are relevant and in demand.
Fully funded for learners – organisations can obtain 80-100% funding.
Information for organisations
Do you have Future Leaders with Roles in Mind? Have you identified future leaders for career progression in your organisation?
Do you have potential supervisory or leadership roles, your current workforce can develop into?
Are you committed to staff development? Could you commit to letting your employee attend a weekly one-day bootcamp for ten sessions to prepare them with the vital skills to develop into a new role or responsibility?
Are you willing to commit to offering them an interview for a new position on completion of the programme?
Funding Criteria
We require maximum attendance from learners. Eligibility is as follows:
- 100% funded for self-employed learners
- 90% funded for SMEs (up to 250 full-time employees) – £360 plus VAT per learner, payable by the employer
- Approximately 80% funded for non-SMEs (more than 250 full-time employees) – £750 plus VAT per learner, payable by the employer
Post-Course Evidence Requirements:
- Employed learners: Evidence must be provided that learners have taken on a new role or responsibility within the organisation (e.g. new project, AI use, project management tools, leading a new team, etc.).
- Self-employed learners: A business plan must be submitted outlining how a new opportunity will be secured (grant, commercial income, etc.) along with evidence once secured (e.g. proof of grant, paid invoice, confirmation letter).
- Unemployed learners: A job offer in written form and/or a payslip.
Do you want to help inform the programme and contribute to the learning outcomes?
If this is your organisation, then contact us now.
Information for individuals
Eligibility: You need to be over 19 and have lived in Lancashire for at least 3 years. You will need to undertake an interview at the beginning of the process to determine your suitability for the Bootcamp.
You can be unemployed, self-employed, a career changer or employed already.
Course Type: A completely leadership and management programme to improve your employability and suitability for a supervisory or leadership role in the arts, culture and digital sector.
Duration: ten-session Skills Bootcamp.
If this is you, then contact us now.
Dates for upcoming cohort
| Cohort 1 | |
| Week 1 | Tuesday 9th September 2025 |
| Week 2 | Tuesday 16th September 2025 |
| Week 3 | Tuesday 23rd September 2025 |
| Week 4 | Tuesday 30th September 2025 |
| Week 5 | Tuesday 7th October 2025 |
| Week 6 | Tuesday 14th October 2025 |
| Week 7 | Tuesday 21st October 2025 |
| Week 8 | Half Term |
| Week 9 | Tuesday 4th November 2025 |
| Week 10 | Tuesday 11th November 2025 |
| Week 11 | Tuesday 18th November 2025 |
Get in touch
Individuals or organisations wishing to benefit from this unique professional development opportunity should get in touch with: –
- Leah Harrison via leah.harrison@communitycvs.org.uk;
- Chelston Phillip via chelston.phillip@communitycvs.org.uk; or
- give our Business and Training Team a call on their direct line – 01254 503043.
Act now to secure this opportunity as places are limited for this exclusive professional development opportunity.
Last update: Monday 16th June 2025