Working freelance or trying to pursue your side-hustle while everyone else is out (or sleeping!) can feel issolating. At Jolt we provide understanding, and practical support to get you from where you are to where you’d like to be.

The Power-up Programme is our way to help you start your professional journey. Our support includes helping you to:

• Learn what you need to do and expect
• Move from a hobbiest to professional
• Become a freelancer or soul trader
• Start a organisation, charity or social enterprise
• Run a creative business

We pay for it all so you don’t have to. Joining the programme will give you access to:

• 3 hours of 1-2-1 creative business mentoring
• Start-up workshop programme
• Specialist topic workshops
• Networking opportunities

We know that talent, good ideas and practical support are only part of the picture. We want you to develop not just your skills but your resilience and self-belief. Join us and be part of our community.

Power-up your career – contact James and find out whats on in Jolt.

This is for you if:

You’ve started to earn from a side hustle but don’t know what to do next.

You have a creative hobby you would like to take forward.

You are a graduate of student who wants to start their career.

You would like to be a freelancer but don’t know how to start or what to expect.

You have an aspiration to create and innovate new cultural or artistic activity and have ambitions to grow from where you are in your career to a state of greater quality, creativity, impact or reach.  

You have an ambition to build a sustainable future for yourself in the creative industries but recognise you need support to get there.

You have a new or early stage idea, project, company or charitable creative cause that you would like to develop

You want to contribute to Gloucester’s growing cultural scene and impact on its community.