Skills
Bootcamps
5+ Week Courses
Expert Coaches
Employment Support
Fully Funded

Sharpen your skills and fast-track your career with Skills Bootcamps

Part of the Governments’ Lifetime Skills Guarantee helping everyone gain skills for life!

Our Skills Bootcamps.

Learn how to create designs, copy and content for websites, social media and printed materials with our suite of Skills Bootcamps in digital skills. Gain the knowledge and ability to become a trained professional in the creative and digital industry.

These courses are created with emerging talent and freelancers in mind, aiming to boost your career in Digital Design or Digital Marketing. Learn more below on what each course will cover.

ELIGIBILITY: Please note that you must be 19 or over, and not in another course or full-time education to be eligible to start a course.
These courses are all delivered online.

Available Now

This intensive course is for people looking to get into a career in the film and video industry. In the course, you will cover elements like camera work, editing, managing productions, and more. 

Be a part of our free, intensive course, with a blend of online and in-person training and learn the basic skills of making a film and understand what it takes to put a professional shoot together. All applicants will get to speak with an employer and be able to pitch their ideas as part of the course. 

You will learn:

  • How to use cameras and professional framing of shots 
  • How to operate sound equipment and understand the best way to capture different sounds 
  • How a production in film works and what pre-production is needed 
  • How to edit with professional software and create a narrative. 
  • To learn about the industry and how the sector operates. 

Coming Soon

Interested in the technical side of theatre and live events? With this Skills Bootcamp you will learn the basic aspects of working with Lights, Sound and Stage equipment. Get hands on experience and get your career started!

This 5-week intensive course is for people looking to get a career in the technical side of the theatre or live events industry. In the course, you will get hands-on experience in all the technical elements of putting on a live show, focusing on Light, Sound and Stage. The course is focussed on building up your essential skills, and professional profile and applying for jobs. We have partnered with MAC (Midlands Art Centre), a leading event organisation, for the delivery of this bootcamp on a real stage.

You will learn:

  • Technical elements of Light, Sound and Stage work
  • How to use stage systems and the regulations required to use them
  • Learn to use professional software to run live events.

Each course includes:

Online Delivery

*Depending on course

Training by industry experts

8 weeks courses

Employability sessions

FAQ

For more information about Skills Bootcamps – Skills for Life, you can read all the public information on the Government Website or the Skills for Life website.

Still have questions? Talk to us.

The start dates for our next cohorts are as follows:

Digital Design – 2025

Digital Marketing – 2025

Video Game Development – TBD

Screen & TV – TBD

Live Technician – TBD

You will gain a certification from Creative Alliance, as acknowledgement for your newly learned skills.

All Skills Bootcamps are fully funded for individuals that are unemployed or looking to change career. Contact us if you want to find out more.

Delivery will be dependant on which Skills Bootcamp you will be doing.

Digital Design and Digital marketing will be delivered online.

Video Game Development and Film Production will be a mixture of online delivery and in-person delivery. ALL sessions are mandatory so we expect you to attend all sessions. Check the timetables on each courses page.

Live Technician will be delivered completely in person, at the Midlands Art Centre in Birmingham. ALL sessions are mandatory so we expect you to attend all sessions.

– Live tutor support during online delivery

– Online resources to help you with your studies and exercises

– Recorded sessions available to rewatch at your leisure

– 121 support available upon request

Funding

Our Skills Bootcamps have been developed on the back of our apprenticeship training, hence offering structured learning and development focused on the creative thinking needed in any successful business.

As part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills, Skills Bootcamps are fully funded for individuals by the Department for Education.

Grow with the ever-evolving digital world

Creative Alliance have you covered with Skills Bootcamps!
Being able to continually learn and develop your skills 
contributes to job satisfaction, and maintaining a competitive advantage.

Our Skills Bootcamps programmes include a broad range of courses that offer structured learning  and development.
These highly practical courses aim to enhance and build
your digital and creative thinking skills, needed for any successful career.