CAREERS
FAIR
Dreamland, Margate • 10–11 July 2024
“We wanted to have an event dedicated to improving representation within the creative industries, not just at the highest level or even at entry level, but where it counts, at school age. Young people are suffering the most from public funding cuts to the arts, as they’re not seeing what is out there and available to them as future careers. We want to change that.”
Jeremy Green
Founder, UK Creative Festival
“You’ve created a truly immersive and immensely valuable organisation for the young people we all want to succeed & be given a chance.”
Patrice De Villiers
Photographer & Director
MAKE AN ENTRANCE.
MAKE YOUR MARK.
MAKE THE MOST OF IT
START YOUR JOURNEY
Talk to employers about their roles and find out about potential opportunities and work placements. Discover the vast range of roles there are in the creative industry and start building relationships with creative professionals.
WORKSHOPS & TALKS
Get involved in multiple workshops and Q&A sessions, gaining advice on how to find work in the creative industry. Discuss your educational future with various HE and FE providers
TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
This is the place where you can practice your interview skills, get professional advice on your CV and portfolios, and have your photo taken professionally.
Framing this year’s UK Creative Festival and Careers Fair 2024 is the Creative Foundation’s ‘Consciousness, Courage & Commitment’ Action Report.
UKCF believes that words need real action for genuine, discernible change to occur. For this reason, we call upon the creative industries to join forces and heed the 20 recommendations outlined in this report to drive tangible progress and change.
Read the full report on the Creative Foundation website
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ATTENDING
Here are some of the industries attending this years event.
The Creative Foundation
The Careers Fair is led by The Creative Foundation, an industry focused registered charity, funded and supported by the creative industry. Founded in 2017, It exists to support diverse and underrepresented talent access more career pathways and work opportunities within the UK creative industries.
The UK Creative Festival believes that words need real action for genuine, discernible change to happen. For this reason, we call upon the creative industries to join forces and heed the 20 recommendations outlined in our Consciousness, Courage & Commitment report, to drive tangible progress and change.
DON’T SHOW US YOUR GRADES, SHOW US YOUR POTENTIAL. THE UK CREATIVE FESTIVAL IS COMMITTED TO HELPING CREATE PATHWAYS INTO AND OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, ENSURING A MORE DIVERSE AND REPRESENTATIVE WORKFORCE.
We invite every young aspiring creative to register for our free-to-attend creative Careers Fair, where they will have the opportunity to meet leading companies from across the creative industries and take part in expertly run workshops and Q&A sessions.
This research report was commissioned in 2023 to explore and highlight the reasons why overall progress on diversity is so persistently slow, disjointed and imbalanced.
The net result of this current situation, as the research will attest to, places the UK creative industries at risk of losing some of the very best young diverse creative talent the UK has to offer.
Consciousness, Courage & Commitment Research Report
