Rising Tide
Rising Tide Trust is a professional development and training charity based in the London borough of Hackney. We deliver programmes from our base in the Ocean Venue, opposite the Hackney Empire offering courses, showcasing opportunities and much more to people from across London.
Rising Tide have delivered music skills and event management training and industry development initiatives across the UK since 1999. Working in partnership with music companies, promoters, artists and training establishments to develop training at entry to levels two and three across many areas of the music industry. We offer opportunities for local people and communities to work with industry professionals, giving them the skills to develop or pursue a career within music and related industries.
Our Work
Rising Tide focuses strongly on working with and for those who are deemed socially excluded or marginalized either by financial, geographical, educational, physical, mental, gender, age and other personal and socially invoked constraints. We acknowledge the role that music plays in the lives of many socially excluded young people and the potential it has for improving access to cultural activity for disadvantaged and isolated groups, such as gay and lesbian young people, disabled people and refugee groups.
It is a continual resource, which young people access by self or agency based referral to obtain qualifications towards further learning, such as college, university, or to enable career development.
Rising Tide currently works very closely with Hackney’s Children and Young People’s Services, Connexions, Youth Offending Team, schools and the voluntary sector in relation to receiving regular referrals and delivering tailor-made workshops alongside young people they work with. To date 84% of our users are Hackney residents from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, many of whom are ex offenders or seriously at risk of offending, becoming teenage parents or not in education, employment.
Areas Of Work
These streams enable our users to access our provision on a one-off basis or hone their skills as they progress through the pathways.
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Stream 1
Non-Accredited training is where the majority of our outreach partnerships take place, delivering summer programmes and school holiday projects for youth clubs, residence associations and alike. Our Stream 1 work also involves school partnerships supporting local children and events for young people to access information, advice, entertainment and training. -
Stream 2
Accredited training for those intending to develop music, music industry, events management and basic skills, utilizing National Open College Network accreditation, B-TEC’s awarded by Edexcel, Creative Apprenticeships and Arts Awards. -
Stream 3
Advice and Guidance delivered in partnership with Connexions, the Learning Trust and Musicians Union. Rising Tide runs advice surgeries or brokerage to offer individuals and organisations support in developing pathways to employment or the ability to offer an improved service to local people, especially those not in employment, education or training. -
Stream 4
Business and Career Development involves the development of ‘supported mirrors of industry’, which embodies our Intermediate Labour Market programme that gives young people experience of a real creative industries working environment in a supportive environment.The students are able to setup and run business initiatives within a training context, such as record labels, musician and DJ agencies (to offer facilities to other youth groups and projects) and even retail management, all under trainer supervision.
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Stream 5
Events and Forums where young people are given the opportunity to develop event management skills to deliver events for their peers or public and provate sector customers. Such commissions have included external bodies such as the National Health Service, The Erricson B-Boy World Championships and the Hackney Children and Young People’s Services in the past.
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Stream 6
Resource Development acknowledges Rising Tide’s ability to support local musicians, youth groups and projects. Offering expertise, access to industry professionals and companies as well as supporting Hackney’s Olympic related opportunities.
Aims & Objectives
We aim to support people trying to develop careers within the music and related industries, through training, development, showcasing and business developing dynamic forward thinking amongst our students as well as producing socially responsible business people.
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1) To deliver quality music industry training to local people from all cultures and backgrounds that encourages leadership, mutual respect, and sense of pride in one’s community.
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2) To offer sustainable alternative to young people at risk of offending, becoming teenage parents, raising youth attainment levels specifically for those excluded or marginalised - socially, economically or physically.
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3) To work strategically with local government, schools and partners to ensure that Rising Tide delivers on key policies and strategies, remains relevant to local needs.
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4) To develop innovative programmes that will help local people obtain sustained employment through and alongside raising school attainment levels, whilst creating pathways for progression into further and higher education.
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5) To encourage young people’s involvement in the arts, contributing positively to the ongoing development of their communities by raising their awareness of self investment and sense of self and community pride.
The History
Rising Tide was launched in January 1999 by Ocean Music Trust, as it’s education department. Rising Tide Trust was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in June 2001 as a music training organisation based within the Ocean venue in Hackney, it facilitated the need for music industry training throughout the local community as a means to employment and to re-engage disaffected groups and/or individuals.
The closure of Ocean in 2004 resulted in Rising Tide Trust being supported by the London Borough of Hackney and the London Development Agency, to ensure its survival, enabling it to continue its work with local people by becoming an independent Charity and self sustained training organisation.
Awards and recognition
Paul Gladstone-Reid – Chair of the Board of Trustees
In 2007 Paul Gladstone-Reid was honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours list by receiving an MBE for services to music and the community.
London Day Award 2003
In 2003 Gabin Sinclair, the director of Rising Tide received a London Day Regeneration and Innovation Award from the Mayor of London, sponsored by the London Development Agency.
“London Day is about honouring those Londoners who make our city such a great place to live and work. These people make a huge difference to communities. I’m delighted that as part of this year’s London Day celebrations we are able to publicly thank them for their efforts.”
”Mayor Ken Livingstone"
