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Creative Businesses in Bloom – a Gecko event to celebrate young creative entrepreneurs

19/9/2016

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On the 16th September Gecko Programmes organised the “Creative Businesses in Bloom” event at the Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton, to showcase the results of the Youth Talent to Market project, an Erasmus Plus strategic partnership between the UK, Italy and Cyprus.

The Youth Talent to Market project team, led by Gecko Programmes designed a non-formal entrepreneurial training pathway aimed at creative makers that are in the early stages of developing a creative business.
The entrepreneurial training pathway was successfully piloted with sixty creative makers from the United Kingdom, Italy and Cyprus, improved and then validated by stakeholders from the three countries as being an innovative training programme that addresses the skills development needs of creative people wishing to market their high value added consumer goods.

The event featured an award ceremony and jewellery and media exhibitions of the artists funded by the project. 
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We used this occasion to celebrate the achievements of our past mobility participants and offered Mobility Star Awards for:
- Business Development (Youth Talent to Market Beneficiary Chloe Minihane Slater)
- Career Development (KA1 VET Beneficiary Simon Burke, a South & City College Birmingham learner who went to Seville with the Erasmus Plus programme )
- Cultural Engagement (Erasmus+ KA1 VET Beneficiary Ian Malhotra, a Gecko learner who went to Seville with the Erasmus Plus Programme).

In the picture (right to left): Councillor Barry Findlay - Mayor of Wolverhampton and the Mayoress, Patrick Cross - MD of Gecko Programmes, Ian Malhotra, Chloe Minihane Slater, Simon Burke, Rob Marris MP.​
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    Gecko Programmes Ltd was established in 2009, and operates from both Wolverhampton Science Park and the Custard Factory in Birmingham.
    Gecko held a major Future Jobs Fund contract, and supported 225 young people to find employment between 2011 and 2013.  Since then, Gecko has held a Work Programme contract and has worked with over 1000 people to help them into employment.
    Gecko delivers qualifications to new-entrants to the cultural, sports and active leisure sectors, supporting progress and sustainability in new careers.

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