Tate Collective Producers London February 2025 © Tate (Lucy Green)
Applications for our 2025 cohort of Tate Collective Producers in London are now open.
Get more information about Tate Collective Producers here.
Read on for details of what you need to apply.
How do I apply?
Apply to be a London Tate Collective Producer by filling out our application form.
Important dates
- Applications open from 26 March 2025
- Application deadline is midnight 15 April 2025
- Applicants will be contacted with the outcome of their application by 9 May 2025
- The first session for the 2025 cohort to attend is 18.00–20.00 on Thursday 29 May 2025
What to prepare
As part of your application, you need to submit a video of no longer than 3 minutes answering these two questions:
- Why do you want to be a Tate Collective Producer?
- What matters most to young people today?
Plus a written answer to the question:
- What do you think museums and galleries should do differently for young people?
Who can apply?
We are looking for 16–22-year-olds based in London, living in the boroughs of Southwark, Westminster, Lambeth or Croydon.
You don’t need experience in the arts, but you are:
- Excited about the idea of making Tate a more relevant place for other young people.
- Interested in producing or planning creative events
- Someone who enjoys working in a team
- Confident (or want to be more confident) sharing and developing your ideas with others
You can commit to attending a monthly in-person evening session 18.00-20.00 at Tate Britain or Tate Modern across your first year in the programme.
You are one or more of the following*:
- From a working-class background;
- Unemployed and/or have received welfare benefits;
- D/deaf;
- B/blind;
- Disabled;
- Neurodivergent;
- LGBTQIA+;
- From the Global Ethnic Majority
*Why this list?
We want our Tate Collective Producer group to represent the demographics of young people in London. When we recruit, we aim to break down some of the systemic barriers to a career in museums and galleries. The barriers we’ve identified disproportionately impact people who are underrepresented in our sector, which are most often people from the above groups.
What's in it for me?
As a Tate Collective Producer in London, you’ll get access to:
- A structured training programme, developing your creative production skills and experience
- A range of work experience and collaboration opportunities with departments across Tate
- Opportunities to learn from a range of Tate staff and industry experts
- Mentoring and coaching to support your career development
- A network of TCP peers to build relationships with
- Tate staff induction, training, and a Tate staff pass
In return, we offer:
- London zone 1-6 travelcard to attend monthly meetings
- Food, snacks and drinks at monthly meetings
- Paid work at events to support event delivery
- Paid work in-office to lead event development
- Free entry to Tate exhibitions with your staff pass
- Tickets and entry costs for research visits
- Access to staff diversity networks; BAME, LGBTQIA+, DisAbility, and Parents & Carers
Tate Collective Producer FAQs
Tate Collective Producers are Tate’s inhouse youth collective aged 16–25, who are at the core of Young Peoples Programmes at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. They are a group of casual staff members, who work with artists and creatives to enable new young audiences to engage with Tate's collections, galleries and exhibitions.
They are supported to steer, develop and deliver Tate programmes, and collaborate with Tate teams on wider activity, including Learning programmes and Tate Collective membership.
The programme is structured in stages from induction to senior. Your ‘induction’ year is structured over a series of monthly evening meetings. In these sessions we will develop your knowledge of Tate staff, sites and spaces, introduce you to our programme and explore what being a creative producer is all about.
After your ‘induction' year, the training and opportunities we offer are designed to progress you through the stages and build your knowledge and experience. There will be different kinds of opportunities on offer across programme – from researching and developing event ideas in a big group, to leading on programme curation in a pair or small group.
Where we can, tailored to the specific skills or experience you want to develop, we will look for opportunities in other departments at Tate.
Core TCP sessions take place monthly on the last Thursday of the month from 18.00–20.00 at Tate Britain or Tate Modern. The location for each session is shared in advance via email or in person. We occasionally meet offsite.
Other ad-hoc sessions can take place on weekends and evening to fit around studies or work.
New recruits need to be available for each monthly session over the first year (your ‘induction’ year). In following years, there is more flexibility as you work on different projects.
We expect Tate Collective Producers to be in active communication with us and to share if circumstances change that affect the ability to be involved in the programme.
Monthly training sessions are unpaid, but we provide food and can cover London zone 1-6 travelcards to support attendance.
There will be regular paid work opportunities to support on event delivery, as well as office-based programme work.
Tate Collective Producers are paid London Living Wage. If you are successful in your application, you will be set up on payroll (subject to relevant checks) as part of your onboarding.
A wide range of paid opportunities are on offer to Tate Collective Producers, including (but not limited to):
- Event running
- Front-of-house support
- Event curating
- Programme content development
- Research group meetings
- Wider Tate project consultations
- Event logistics support
- Press photocalls
and much more!
It will take you a minimum of 3 years to progress through the stages. You can remain in the programme until you turn 26.
Once you've graduated, we will remain in touch via 'alumni' emails, signposting to current vacancies and relevant freelance work within Tate.
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