Stories of Care Application Form

About

Stories Of Care is a dynamic and rebellious writing and outreach organisation, founded by Sophie Willan. We make urgent work that is personal, political and powerful. We work exclusively with diverse new writers whose voices need to be heard and whose stories need to be told. With an outstanding creative team, we develop our writers to smash through all the ceilings across all the platforms; there are no limits to how, what and where we will tell our stories. We’ve written novels, published anthologies, made television, radio, stand-up and theatre. Our work is inspired by our experiences and fired by our imaginations.

Stories Of Care is expanding its core missions by working with a new and exciting Lead Artist every two years. Each Lead Artist will be a special and original talent, whose voice is underrepresented in the arts, and whose story needs to be heard. We will support this Lead Artist as they explore their personal story to tap into a wider social narrative and make great art on a large scale, that smashes through all the ceilings and instigates positive social change.

This year’s new Lead Artist is Oliver Sykes and this year’s writing programme will prioritize applications from:

18-25 year-old Care-Leavers
18-25 year-olds from low-income and non-standard families

For full project details including dates etc, please visit www.storiesofcare.co.uk

We strongly recommend that you complete your answers to the five, core application questions (about your writing interests, etc.) offline on a word document and then paste the answers into the online form to ensure you have a backup of your answers in the event that the form crashes.

To continue your application, please answer all the questions below and hit ‘submit’.

What is your full name?

What is your date of birth?

What is your current address?

What is your email address?

What is your phone number?

How did you hear about this project?

Stories of Care website Stories of Care Staff Email Other

Tell us about your writing experience and interests. E.g. It could be that you liked English at school or that writing is a hobby of yours. You may be a member of a writing group or someone who has lots of exciting ideas for children’s stories (200 words max).

What is your favourite children’s story (this could be a short story, a novel, a television series or a film), and why? (200 words max).

Why would you like to write for children? (200 words max).

What do you hope to achieve by participating in the project? (200 words max).

We anticipate the anthology will explore ‘family’. In your own words, please tell us what ‘family’ means to you (200 words max).

Stories Of Care Monitoring Data

Stories Of Care acknowledge that everyone is different. The diversity of our participants, workers, volunteers and the communities we work in is reflected by their range of differences, qualities and needs.

We are committed to creating projects that champion diversity and inclusion, allowing all participants, workers and volunteers to bring their whole selves to work, without fear.

In order to assist us to monitor and evaluate the delivery of our vision, we would appreciate it if you will complete the following monitoring questions by ticking the appropriate box within each category. If you do not wish to complete any section of this form, please leave it blank.

This monitoring form will be detached from the application form prior to the Stories Of Care team selecting the participants for the project. It will not be seen by those involved in the recruitment process, only your contact details will be passed on if you are being invited to take part in the project. The other information provided will be used for statistical purposes only to ensure that our recruitment processes uphold our commitment to equality of opportunity. We will also present these statistics back to our funders for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Stories Of Care is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed at www.storiesofcare.co.uk

Video Submissions

Stories Of Care is committed to supporting as many young people to apply for this project as possible. If you would prefer to submit your application via a recorded video, then please contact Reece.Williams@storiesofcare.co.uk who can provide you with support and guidance on completing a video application.

How would you describe your gender?

Female Male Non-Binary Gender-neutral Gender-queer Gender-fluid Prefer not to say

Is the gender you identify with the same as the gender you were assigned at birth?

Yes No Prefer not to say

What type of high school did you go to?

State School/Free School (Government funded, free to attend) Grammar School Faith School Special School Academy School Private School Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) Home Schooled Other

When you were at high school, were you eligible for free school meals?

When you were aged 14, what was the occupation/job of the main bill-payer in your household? Please write it in below, or leave blank if you'd prefer not to say.

Do you consider yourself as having a disability?

Yes No Prefer not to say

Are you a care-leaver or providing care for somebody else?

Yes No Prefer not to say

How would you describe your ethnicity?

Thanks for completing this form. We will be in touch in the coming weeks to inform you of whether or not your application has been successful.