Content Creator Bootcamps
BlackRook Academy has been delivering digital skills training and employability coaching,
funded by the West Midlands Combined Authority since the beginning of 2023.
We run several Social Media Content Creator Industry Bootcamps
Looking for work?
The full time courses are fully funded for people 19 and over living or working in the West Midlands
We currently run with several full-time, four week bootcamps every month in partnership with City of Wolverhampton College from sites in Walsall, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
In work and wanting to up-skill?
For a 14-week day release course, an SME employer looking to up-skill staff pays £338 per head.
More than 250 staff? Employers then pay £1,014 per head. 148 hours of face-to-face teaching and assignments designed to build an audience and provide quality content – from Day One,
Self-employed and need to grow your audience?
We run bespoke bootcamps for people seeking to build an audience for their own business – and you pay nothing. All is fully-funded by the WMCA.
Recent Candidate Work
Katrina – Wolverhampton Adventure Golf
Katrina – The Mount Hotel
Advait – Pattigift Therapy
Megan – K-Tec Racing
Benjamin – MiBeds
Kamila – BlackRook Academy
Employability Coaching
We are passionate about helping people into work – so employability support runs alongside our training.
We work with businesses that need help with their socials’
We go into businesses and capture content.
Watch our candidates
Working with Businesses
During our bootcamps candidates create a portfolio of content which includes video reels and posts, info graphics, photography, content calendars and a bespoke social media strategy for business.
We have worked with scores of businesses including:
- K-Tec Racing
- The Mount Hotel in Tettenhall
- Adventure Golf in Perton
- Pouches.co.uk
- LD Training
- PATTIGIFT Therapy
- Round Oak Interiors
- Royston & Lund Estate Agents
- Gluttons For Nourishment
- Scallywags Soft Play
- MiiBed
We’ve had a 100% success rate with all the businesses we have engaged with.
They’ve all employed at least one of our candidates for full-time, part-time or freelance work.
Our Syllabus – What You’ll Learn
Our industry training will coach you in effective and tailored use of social platforms, writing and story-telling, use of AI, Google Ads, analytics tools and the whole arc of story-telling from deciding what content works to production – with in-depth coaching on high quality filming and photography with a smartphone, along with picture editing and use of graphics.
See Where Our Pathways Can Take You
Register Your Interest
If you’re a business that wants to find out more about how BlackRook Academy can help you then contact us now: enquiries@blackrookacademy.com One of our team will reply within 24 hours.
Please find out more about our Employer Engagement Executives, Beth and Ayanna, on our team page.