Programmes
Creative Leadership: Mentoring
Six mentoring places available for creative leaders in Plymouth.
Building on last years very successful Creative Leadership Programme, we are happy to announce six mentoring places for creative leaders living and/or working in Plymouth.
Mentoring is a supportive relationship between someone with specialist skills and experience and someone who wants to learn from these insights. A mentor can be a sounding board, providing an alternate perspective on your creative leadership journey, and gently challenge you to think and act differently in order to achieve your goals.
If you’re a creative leader looking to build on the skills and knowledge you already have, or define and achieve long or short term goals, then mentoring is for you!
WHAT’S ON OFFER?
There are 6 mentoring places available. Each mentoring place consists of:
5 x one hour online mentoring sessions with a leader in your creative field of interest. Plymouth Culture will work with you to match you to a suitable mentor (or you may have a mentor in mind). There is a fee available for your mentor.
Priority booking for Plymouth Culture’s programme of Creative Leadership networking and workshop events.
Social media highlight of you and your work.
WHEN?
The mentoring will take place between July 2025 and March 2026. The exact dates and times of the mentoring will be decided between the mentoring pairs.
WHO CAN APPLY?
1. Applicants must live and/or work in Plymouth.
2. The mentoring is aimed at people who define themselves as creative leaders, or are looking to move into a creative leadership role (please see our definition of a creative leader at the bottom of the page). You may be working as a creative leader as a volunteer, as a freelancer or in a salaried role. You will be working in:
– Visual Art
– Theatre
– Dance
– Music
– Writing (poetry, plays, novels, non fiction etc)
– Performance
– Film making
– Craft
– Design (including graphic design and illustration)
– Animation
– Libraries
– Museums
– Cultural education
- Cultural Management/Cultural Development
– Heritage
If you’re unsure if you can apply, please contact Sophie Mellor for a friendly chat – sophie@plymouthculture.co.uk
SUPPORT WITH APPLICATIONS
Sophie Mellor, the Creative Leadership Programme Coordinator, will be running an online application information & support session on Monday 12 May 2025 at 1pm. Please contact Sophie on sophie@plymouthculture.org.uk if you would like to come along, and she will send you the zoom link.
If you’re unable to make the session, please email any questions you have to Sophie, well before the application deadline!
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline for applications is Friday 23 May at 5pm.
Successful candidates will be informed during the week beginning 2 June 2025.
HOW TO APPLY
Please fill in the online application form below as well as the (anonymous) Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form.
>> Click here to fill in the online Mentoring Application Form
>> And click here to fill in the (anonymous) Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form
APPLICATIONS IN OTHER FORMATS
You can also send your application as a video file or an audio file. If you send us a video, don’t worry about what it looks like! Just a head and shoulders shot, filmed on your phone, is fine. The production values of the video will not be judged!
Please also fill in the (anonymous) Equality and Diversity Application Form.
>> Click here to fill in the online form for Mentoring Applications in other formats
>> And click here to fill in the (anonymous) Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form
Are you a Creative Leader?
You're a leader if: you organise, you work with others to make things happen. You're someone who works (freelance, salaried or voluntary) leading a one-off project; an organisation; a team of people.
And you're a creative leader if: you also make things happen in arts & culture.
You might have set up a writing project working with young people; you might be a theatre production manager; you might lead a small team within a museum. Perhaps you're a film director; an assistant curator; a music producer; a craft workshop manager.
If you work with people to make things happen in arts and culture, whether as a freelancer, a volunteer or a salaried worker - you are a creative leader!