With a vision to: Be an outstanding education provider | Promote wellbeing for staff, students and the community | Bring industry into the classroom
Within a culture of: Excellence | Support | Collaboration
To achieve: Skills | Integrity | Networks
Big Creative Training Governance
Develop Talent Transform Lives Create Careers
Big Creative Training is constituted as a ‘not for profit’ company limited by guarantee formed in February 2000. BCT charitable objectives are summarised as follows;
- Advance education and training, in particular (without limitation): to support young people in need by reason of youth, financial hardship, ill-health, disability, age, or other disadvantage; and by collaborating with associated education and training organisations;
- Relieve need arising by reason of youth, financial hardship, ill-health, disability, age, or other disadvantage;
- Provide and promote training, apprenticeships and employment opportunities for young people, not otherwise in training, or employment;
- Support young people in the development of business opportunities; and
Provide and promote adult learning and training.
BCT has appointed an advisory board that is formed of non-exec directors and 3 directors with relevant experience.
Below is a list of current appointments to the BCT advisory board.
Non-executive
- Education – Kim Caplin (Safeguarding link board member)
- Education – Steve Stanley
- Youth & Enterprise – Althea Blake
- Industry – Nell Jordan Gent
- Industry – Dewayne Ector
- Industry – Dom Davenport
- Youth & Community –Makeda McMillan (EDI link board member)
- Finance – Jonathan Page
- Staff board members x 2 – appointed annually
Executive
- Alexis Michaelides – Managing Director
- Ben Jolly – Director of Operations
- Ian Morton – Director of Performance
The board meet quarterly to review and develop BCT performance and strategy.