Our mission is to arm aspiring creatives with the tools, inspiration and confidence they need to kickstart a creative career, live up to their potential and eventually lift as they climb, holding the door open for the next generation of talent.

The Arena is run by Dom and Lauren, alongside their own creative careers in the world of design and marketing. Together, we combine our decade of experience in the creative industry and passion for levelling the playing field to bring about lasting and meaningful change for emerging creatives.

Our Story

What began as a humble passion project in the depths of lockdown quickly evolved into an almighty community of changemakers.If you cast your mind back to the summer of 2020, The Arena was an online media platform designed to showcase some of our creative heroes, established and emerging alike. The value and inspiration we had from hosting those interviews felt greedy not to share, and so those creative heroes morphed into fantastic mentors and the rest is history.

Today, The Arena platform is an essential tool to kick-start creative careers, packed with resources, insights and mentoring opportunities. Match22 is our bi-annual mentoring programme that pairs up 22 emerging creatives with established industry pros across the UK for 12 weeks of virtual mentorship. As well as this, we host IRL Speed Mentoring events in partnership with award-winning creative agencies.

Since 2020, we’ve helped over 400 emerging creatives get their start in the industry, with the support of over 200 incredible volunteer mentors.

Find out more…

Visit: thearena.org.uk
Instagram: @thearenauk
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