Eastside Creative Team Application Form 2026

Eastside is looking for experienced (spoken word) poetry and filmmaking facilitators with a to join our network and help us deliver our upcoming Spoken Word Power and Filmmaking programmes. This form is to submit your details to apply for a position as one of our creative facilitators in our network this year.

We will be conducting informal interviews in mid-September.

We will not pass your data onto any third parties nor use it for any purposes apart from the administration of this application process and any subsequent projects you will work on if you are successful. Please see our Privacy Statement for more information about how we collect and store your data.

http://www.eastside.org.uk/about/privacy_statement

APPLICATIONS CLOSE AT 11.59pm ON MONDAY 24th AUGUST
1.Full Name(Required.)
2.Phone Number(Required.)
3.Email Address(Required.)
4.Borough(Required.)
5.Tell us a bit about your poetry / spoken word poetry practice and/or filmmaking practice.(Required.)
6.Why are you interested in working for Eastside? (max 250 words)(Required.)
7.Please outline your experience working with young people in primary, secondary, SEND schools and youth groups. Include details about any and all art forms you have experience working with e.g. Drama, Poetry, Filmmaking. (max 300 words)(Required.)
8.How did you hear about this job?(Required.)
9.Do you have any spent or unspent criminal convictions? (Disclosure of a criminal record will not debar you from working with Eastside - we will contact you for further info if required)(Required.)
10.Do you have an enhanced child workforce DBS certificate issued in the previous 2 years or one registered with the update service. (If not - you will be required to apply for one which Eastside will validate but you will have to pay for - it will cost around £55 and be valid for 2 years. The cost is tax deductible)(Required.)
11.I confirm that I am eligible to work in the UK.(Required.)
12.Have you lived outside of the UK for a period longer than three months, within the five years preceding your application to this role?
13.Eastside requires two professional references to support all applications to become a part of our Creative Team. Please list below the names of these referees, and the phone number or email address they would like to be contacted on.(Required.)
14.I hereby confirm that the information I have given in this application is true and correct. By submitting this form, I give Eastside permission to store and process my data as described above in accordance with professional standards, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations 2018.(Required.)
15.Please upload your CV here.(Required.)
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