FUTURE FOUNDRY CIC

Encourage excitement, diversity, innovation and talent by removing barriers to progression for young people in the creative industries. Use the unique qualities of arts involvement as a catalyst to enable young people to gain the skills; practical, emotional and social to thrive and successfully transition from education to a career or further trai... ning Promote excellence, bring young people into contact with inspiring practitioners, to enable creative business start up and engagement with contemporary maker and sustainability movements. Create a resilient, independent and innovative creative community by developing, testing and sharing innovative and sustainable business models. Teach economic survival skills, freelancing, entrepreneurial and self-employment skills, encourage and promote life long learning and career development through non-traditional routes. Bring small scale manufacturing back to the town centres, turning empty shops into workplaces, to create products, curiosity, and make visible the hand made. Promote enterprise, entrepreneurial activity and a do it yourself approach to improving your own life, community and economy. Director of Future Foundry Lisa Oulton, had first hand experience of the negative effects of youth unemployment, from struggling to find permanent work after leaving school to experiencing life as a young single parent living on benefits. She was fortunate to have the support that enabled her to return to education and build a career in the creative industries. In 2012, after fifteen years devising and running arts projects and working with young people she was shocked to see how little had changed for young people. She set up Future Foundry in response to the difficulties facing young people leaving school today, to help them successfully transition from school to work and to address the barriers to entry facing young people who want a career in the creative industries. She had noticed that the young people who are able to progress, in the arts and other industries were ...Read More