Content Up North CIC

08/03/2025

This it was great to see one of our Academy alumni, Pamela Utley, giving a talk on Women in Mining at National Coal Mining Museum for England 👏👏👏

This was Pamela’s chosen topic throughout the course and she has since had her blog published on the NCMME website and given 3 highly informative and engaging talks to the public today.

Also fantastic that another alumni Linda Thornley was there at NCMME with her organisation Well Women Wakefield - a fantastic charity based in providing mental health, emotional and practical support in a women only space give them a follow here 👉 Well Women Wakefield

Well done, Pam & Linda - what a great way to represent everything that is great about International Women's Day 💪

23/02/2025

A look at today’s Content Creators Collective photoshoot! 📸

Some of our Collective joined forces with the brilliant to get some social media content to refresh our feeds and also chat through in person our bigger, studio-based photoshoot coming up in March.

We may have got rained on today but it certainly didn’t dampen our creativity! 💪✨📷

If you’re an established creator who is looking for community, collaboration and optional monthly activities such as this, DM us for more info!

08/02/2025

Wow! 🫶 Check out this backstage photo of some of our Content Creators Academy who rocked the catwalk for last night! 💕

Our previous chort (in amongst 30 other models!) all came together with love and support to uplift each other before heading out in front of a sold out audience for the@clobberswapltd LOVE fashion show, organised hy and our very own Co-Facilitator and hosted by our very own Co-Facilitator !

It just shows, our CCA course (funded by and with the support of ) may have ended but our COMMUNITY will last a lifetime 🥹.

You were AMAZING

17/01/2025

🔦 Unveiling the Past, Shaping the Future 🔦

Young theatre-makers and artists invite YOU to experience Humanising Mental Health, a powerful exploration of mental health history through performance, storytelling, and art. 🎭✨

🌿 What to Expect?
🔹 Theatrical performances inspired by real-life histories
🔹 Art & creative responses to history research
🔹 A fresh perspective on mental health, then & now

🗓 Event Dates & Venues:
📍 Westgate Studios (Studio A4) – 29 Jan | 17:30 & 19:30
📍 Treacy Hall, Wakefield Cathedral – 31 Jan | 18:00-20:00

💬 “Elizabeth Fenton’s story deserves to be heard. I hope audiences leave feeling moved, enlightened, and inspired to make a difference.” – Elvira, participant

🎟 FREE ENTRY – Register via Eventbrite to secure your spot! https://s.mtrbio.com/mbptwefsaa

This event is made possible by supported by OurYear2024 Wakefield Council Culture Grants and Live Well Wakefield's small grants.

31/12/2024

THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT 💫

Happy New Year’s Eve from all of us at 🎉

Our favourite part of this year has to be our CONTENT CREATORS ACADEMY alumni. They smashed it and we can’t wait to see them all soar in 2025 🪽🙌💕

The Content Creators Academy is delivered by CIC and is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Supported by and .

31/12/2024

Repost from one of our Content Creators Academy Alumi: .norton! 👏 We just love this post! Great achievements, Romey - we can’t wait to see you smash 2025 🎉👇
Happy New Year, Insta peeps! ✨🎉

Without being too braggy, this year has been pretty fantastic and I hope 2025 is the same, for us all! Some professional and personal goals I’ve achieved:

🎬 Became a Rotten Tomatoes Approved critic
🎬 Became a member of the Film Critics Association
🎬 Completed a copywriting course with the Charted Institute of Marketing (CIM)
🎬 Celebrated one year at Wordsmiths Unlimited - professional copywriting
🎬 Completed a Content Creator course with
🥂 Maid of Honor to my best friend and bridesmaid to another best friend
🥂 Travelled to six countries
🥂 Got a shiny new car that heats up fast and has an automatic handbrake (needed).

Now it’s time to set your goals for the year ahead, so here’s a simple but effective quote from one of the best films of all time to inspire you: “Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda, Star Wars 🌌

Watch my 2025 be really boring 😅

Wishing you joy, success, and endless inspiration this year. Cheers to new beginnings, fresh challenges, and endless smiles.

Here’s some photos over this Christmas, which has been filled with family, friends, food and fantastic booze. ❤️🍾⭐️🎄

11/12/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to (and introducing) two of our CONTENT CREATOR ACADEMY Graduates ✨!

Jenna of .co.uk has been SMASHING her business social media & seeing massive uplift in her reach and engagement thanks to her hard work and thanks to (that word that all our graduates will be thoroughly sick of) yep, CONSISTENCY, sticking to her plans and setting goals to supercharge her already thriving business into the corporate space.

Rachael has a whole wealth of knowledge and skills especially in the community space; Rachael’s goal was all about focus and direction as to where to focus her MANY talents… Her exciting next step is embarking on creating a website where she can showcase ALL these talents (literary, video and social) in one exciting space… And we cannot wait to see it!

We have now reached the end of our course and it is with sad faces, yet proud hearts, we wave our graduates as they embark on the continuation of their Content Creation journey! 🥹🥹🥹

We’ll be sharing more on our Graduates in the coming days as we couldn’t be prouder of each and every person! 🫶

05/12/2024

Today our Course Facilitors Sophie Mei Lan Malin and Victoria Reddington delivered a session on PODCASTING 🎙️ in the penultimate session of our 12 Week Content Creators Academy course!

Here’s 3 quick takeaways from today if you’re thinking of creating your own podcast👇

⭐️ VALUE! Whether your aim is to inform, educate or entertain, make sure to give your listeners value & lots of it!

⭐️ CONSISTENCY. Frequency matters much less than having consistent release schedule that you are able to realistically sustain.

⭐️ REPURPOSE YOUR CONTENT. If you’re recording a podcast, why not film it too? You then have episode to put on YouTube. You can also edit this long form video down to 10-sec to 60-sec short, easily digestible (portrait format) videos for Insta Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts - these are a ready made promo device and will help your podcast gain traction much more quickly.

As always, today was such an informative and collaborative session!

Throughout this course, we have LOVED EVERY SINGLE MINUTE of seeing the amazing group of people who’ve taken part, work hard to transform their content 📲, hone their skills ✨, get intentional about their business growth 📈, and also come together as a group and form lasting friendships 💕.

Thank you so much to for welcoming us and for the use of your fantastic facilities for our Content Creators Academy today!

Thank you also to Michelle Jackson for making the introduction!

Roll on next year when we at (Sophie, Vic and Danny Mei Lan Malin) launch our NEXT Content Creators Academy programme 🙌

03/12/2024

We love this shot of a couple of our students ( and .co.uk ) after having a YouTube Masterclass from the master himself - Rate My Takeaway’s ! 👏✨

Danny is also one of the 3 tutors who run our CONTENT CREATORS ACADEMY along with and .

Our very first course is nearly at completion but the learning doesn’t stop just yet…

Tomorrow is all about podcasting! 🎙️📡

03/12/2024

Over the last few weeks we’ve seen SO much progress (and had so much fun!) doing 1-2-1s with each of our CONTENT CREATORS ACADEMY cohort!

In addition to group sessions, these one on one sessions - available to each member with any of our Group Leaders - allow a deep dive into each person’s personal goals and ambitions!

Great work, guys! 👏

08/11/2024

Happy Birthday to our queen chief content creator, manager, leader and fashionista loved and respected by us all - have a great month (better late with a Starbucks than never). All our love the Content Creators Academy family ###x

30/10/2024

📣 Fear and excitement is the *exact* same feeling; the only difference is in how you interpret it 💪.

It’s important to set that push us further than our current limits; goals that make your heart race a bit faster - because they challenge you to grow.

During today’s CONTENT CREATORS ACADEMY session we were adjacent 🎃 and digging deep… What scares us and why? How can we face that fear and GROW… We are SO PROUD of our current cohort, doing the work and taking 👏 the 👏 action 👏.

If a goal is scary and seems intimidating, reframe that fear. It’s a good thing because it means you’re aiming HIGH and reaching for something extraordinary 🙌.

After all, nothing worth having comes without a bit of a challenge 😉🙌.

25/10/2024

23/10/2024

Today our Content Creators Academy have been working alongside the team at the prestigious National Coal Mining Museum for England ✨.

Our cohort met Sharon Healy (Learning Manager) and Devinia Skirrow (Head of Audiences, Media and Communications) and received a content brief which will provide an invaluable opportunity for our members to practice the skills they been gaining on our course, against a real life brief 👏👏👏 .

Our Academy members will be creating engaging content around the museums offer, highlighting key areas and sharing personal insights to be used on the Museum’s digital platforms.

Our day finished with our Academy member Jenna Fan (of .co.uk) delivering a ‘Creative With Music’ Wellbeing session for the Academy, NCMME volunteers and staff - ending our day on a high note (literally!) 🎵🎤

A big THANK YOU to Sharon, Devinia and the Museum for working with us to bring this partnership to life 🙌.

From social media content and press articles to radio and podcast episodes - we can’t wait to flex our skills and get creating! 🎙️🤳🎥✍️

⭐️ About The Content Creators Academy👇
CCA is delivered by CIC and is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Supported by and .

18/10/2024

✨ Content Creator Academy X 🌈

As part of this week’s course, we went into the community to start our collaboration with the amazing !

Our cohort of Creators are learning skills and gaining the connections to help them SUPERSIZE in their chosen area of creation: we have journalists, Influencers, podcasters, ghost writers, community champions and more in our first cohort and in this first meeting with the Wakefield Pride team (📍held in their shop in ) it is fair to say as well as gaining important info… We got INVOLVED!!!

We mean - in a shop of wonders like this - how could we not?!!!

After all, who says being a Content Creator can’t be FUN?! 🫶

Watch this space for more on this collab and lots more community link ups in our region to come 👀

Our Academy is only possible due to funding from and with support from .

17/10/2024

Repost from one of our Content Creator Academy cohort!👇
I am loving life and my new content creator course with so follow me and watch this space for some fabulous tips I will share with you from the course 🤗

14/10/2024

⭐️ EPISODE ONE: How DO you get featured in the media? 🤔⭐️

Introducing an exciting new series! 💫 Our Co-Director here at Content Up North CIC is Sophie Mei Lan Malin and she is the GURU ✨ for all things media and writing related ✍️. If you need to know how to tell a story, Sophie is the one to ask…

This is the first in an exciting weekly series where Sophie will take us through some common questions to do with the media.

From presenting on TV up north to reporting for the news internationally and becoming a mum, blogger, youtuber, and personal trainer, Sophie Mei Lan has won awards for her candid videos and blogs on Family life, travel, health, parenting, Yorkshire and wellbeing. She runs the Mama Mei blog, youtube channel and social media sites through which she has reached over two billion people with one video alone. Sophie is also known as Mrs Yorkshire.
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When she is not creating content, she works for Yorkshire Post as a journalist as well as column writing for national press.

This is the kind of advice you’ll find Sophie, Victoria Reddington and Danny Malin giving in their CONTENT CREATORS ACADEMY (funded by and with support from ).

The current 12 week cohort is closed as already underway, but for info on how to join future cohorts, please email us at 👉 [email protected]

🎙️Thank you to ryanamulhern for your collabing with us on this and for your time and skills! 👏

📽️ Team:

14/10/2024

A MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to one of our Content Creator Academy members for being one of the INSPIRATIONAL LEEDS WOMEN featured in a new sculpture in Leeds! 🎉👏🙌

Becky (and her twin sister, Shelley Joyce) have devoted their lives to helping homeless and marginalised people around Leeds. Starting by helping rough sleepers by going on food runs, the charity now provides support to hundreds of families across city with their award-winning charity, Homeless Street Angels 👏👏👏.

The sculpture is located at and celebrates the hundreds of Leeds women that have made a difference in the city.

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