Agenda item: 6 One Board

Title of Paper: Awards Update – Nottingham Young Creative Awards and Nottingham Award Date: 8th July 2016

1. Purpose 1.1 This report updates the Board on the Young Creative Awards 2016 event, on the progress for developing Young Creatives Nottingham and forms a reminder about the Nottingham Award.

2. Recommendations The Board is asked to notes the progress i. on the YCA 2016, ii. the development of the YCA charity and iii. is encouraged to consider nominating candidates for the Nottingham Award this year.

3. Background 3.1 “I cannot describe the suspense in the air as we waited for the winner to be announced, over 350 amazing people summited unbelievable good work all deserving to win. When my name was called out not once but twice, I was truly shocked and excited. I am immensely grateful to the judges and everyone that helped put this competition together; it was so much fun to enter and see the inspirational work of others. I am looking forward to seeing what opportunities this may bring for me. Nottingham is a beautiful city with fantastic people, I feel so proud and privileged to be living and studying here.

A massive thanks to everyone involved in making this competition possible and a huge congratulations to everyone that entered the creative work exhibited; the exhibition was outstanding” – Rebecca Constable, Nottingham Young Creative of The Year 2016

As in previous awards The Young Creative Awards 2016 had 10 categories and one overall winner. The winners are listed below, the name of the school or college is listed only if the entrant provided those details in the entry paperwork. Entrants are encouraged to enter not only through their educational establishment, they may enter independently if they choose to.

Winners: Animation and Digital Media: Zakk Jones, 17, Confetti; Adikah Patterson, 22, Confetti.

Architecture and Design:

Courtney Clarke, 18, Central College Nottingham (CCN) Josh Bull, 23, Nottingham Trent University (NTU)

Creative Writing: Anushka Shah, 15; Elizabeth O’Riordan, 16, Christ the King Academy; Rebecca Constable, 19, NTU

Dance: Tsz Tsing Tammy Tsang, 18, Dance 4 (through Xzibit)

Film : Kai-Yan Lai, 14, The - Renate Saifutdinova, 18, Confetti - Chantelle Lee and Emily Deck, 19-24, NTU

Fashion and Textiles – - Hannah Ward, 13-15, Emmanuel School - Alice Lea Crowe, 18, CCN - Ben Chandler, 19, CCN

Graphic Design – - Georgia Carson, 17, NCN - Rianne Gregory, 19, CCN Music – - Malfunction, 13-15, Nottingham Music Service (NMS) - Super Furniture, 16-17, Confetti, /NMS - Peter Beardsworth, 23, Photography – - Sophie Townhill, 16, New College Nottingham (NCN) - Kim Watson, 23, NTU Visual Arts – - Amrez Amjad, 15, Bluecoat Academy - Romanie-Jade Tulloch, 17, NCN - Manel Pascual Bafaluy, 19, CCN

Young Creative of the Year – Rebecca Constable.

The Young Creative of the year was presented by BAFTA winning actress Vicky McClure.

The sponsors were : Central College Nottingham, Confetti, Dance4, Maber, Michon New College Nottingham, Nottingham City of Football, Nottingham City Care, Nottingham Music Service, Nottingham Trent University, Skeleton, Speedo.

Over 350 entries were received, however we are unable to log all entries as a number took part in broader competitions to qualify through to the YCA: , including for example Dance 4’s Xibit and the Nottingham Music Service’s Noise from the Next Generation.

The breakdown of the entries is a follows:

Confetti: 32, NCN: 80, Central: 80, NTU: 15, UoN: 10, Nottingham Emmanuel School: 15, Bluecoat Academy: 10, The Trinity School Sixth Form: 5, College: 5 and other/independent : 20

Partners offered prizes/opportunities to the winners as follows: - Summer courses for the Graphic Design winners from NTU - Graphic Design project task regarding advice for young people from Futures - Work experience from LeftLion for Graphic Design and Creative Writing winners - Work experience at Speedo for Fashion winners - Fashion and one Architecture & Design winner had their piece displayed in the train station. - The City Council HR & Transformation are interested in a transformation project for the photography winners to undertake - Work experience at Scene Photography for the photography winners - Documentary based project from Nottingham Forest in the Community for one of the film winners - Work experience from Skeleton for one of the film winners - Jake Bugg’s personal studio for a recording session for a music winner - Membership for Nottingham Writers’ Studio for Creative Writing winners - Work experience from Maber for the architecture & design winners - Reading of YCA of the Year’s short story at Bromley Library - YCA of the year has been asked to become an ambassador for NTU, along with the opportunity to work with their Saturday Art Club and the Nottingham Post are considering publishing a feature article on Rebecca to encourage inspire and encourage young people.

Notts TV made a special programme which can be viewed on Nots TV catch up.

Feedback from YCA 2016:

The comments received have been overwhelmingly good and the best comments yet. We have had so much positive response from our social media and we were trending on Twitter in Nottingham on the night . Vicky McClure said she was very proud to be a part of it and thought that the standard of work was excellent. Some great comments came from partners and from the Lord Mayor. The High Sheriff of Nottingham wrote to the Chief Executive of the City Council next day to say that it was an inspirational event.

The venue was the best venue we’ve had so far and it was particularly great to see it so full this year - especially with every single winner being there.

There will always be areas to improve but as one commenter noted “it wouldn’t be the Young Creative Awards without some rough edges”.

4. YCA 2017:

The theme for the YCA 2017 will be Nottingham Future City the event will be on the 10th May and it will be at the Playhouse.

Rather than being one event, we are aiming for the Young Creative Awards to be a yearlong programme, as a part of Young Creatives Nottingham, where our winners are mentored and their work is showcased around the city..

In particular we want the winners from each year to be involved in the process of the next YCA.

The categories for 2017 will be enhanced by the inclusion of video games into the Animation & Digital Media and we are actively considering introducing a Drama performance category for schools and youth clubs.

We are in the process of putting together a sponsorship pack with YCA material and a presentation to accompany in order to raise a higher profile and to access more sponsorship opportunities.

The YCN charity trustees have submitted an application to the Charity Commissioners and news is awaited imminently as outlined at the May Board meeting.

5. Nottingham Award

As reported to the last Board meeting Nominations are now invited for the Nottingham Award. The closing date for entries is the 1st August 2016. Board members are encouraged to make nominations for people who have made a significant and lasting contribution to Nottingham and who have not been recognised by national awards, such as the Queen‘s honours (MBE etc.) The details of how to submit nominations are on the ON website.

6. Contact Details Nigel Cooke – Director of One Nottingham  0115 876 4997  [email protected]