We deliver high quality training and consultancy
About us
We are a specialist creative and digital media training provider, officially on the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP). Only providers on the RoATP are approved to deliver apprenticeship training, having been through an application process with the ESFA that considers due diligence, quality and financial health to assess capability to deliver apprenticeship training.
We work with Levy paying employers to deliver high quality training and consultancy. We are proficient in working with new entrants and diversity, delivering training for Broadcast Production Assistant and Junior Content Producer apprenticeships. All Spring Media sat on both Employer Panels which set the Standards for these apprenticeships, working alongside companies such as Channel 4, Sky, and Bauer Media. Subsequently, Managing Director Martina Porter was then tasked to create the accompanying qualifications, working with Aim Awards.
All Spring Media is experienced in delivering work on budget and to meet the specific needs of each individual client and learner. Our mission is to work with young people from diverse backgrounds, to create pathways into sustainable employment in the creative media sector.
Set up in 2011, All Spring Media has worked with a range of apprenticeships, traineeships and pre-employment schemes. We are passionate about apprenticeships and have worked with them since their launch in 2010 with clients such as BBC, ITV, National Theatre and Global Radio in delivering the Creative and Digital Media Framework and Standards. All training is carried out to industry standard by industry professionals, ensuring it is always relevant and appropriate to the needs of the ever-changing creative media sector landscape.
All Spring Media deliver holistic training which puts a focus on the gaining the skills rather ticking the boxes. We believe this approach to training is more beneficial for the apprentice and creates a more engaging learning environment.
Meet Our Team
In 2011 Martina set up All Spring Media as a media education consultancy. Prior to that Martina managed the Film and Digital Media Exchange, a £2.5 million project based at the University of Hertfordshire designed to build a bridge between education and the film and digital media industries. Martina was also Head of Skills and Innovation at 01zero-one, where she managed a pilot City and Guilds qualification for new entrants and First Post, an innovative fast track scheme for the post production industries. While Head of Film and Broadcast at TS2k, Martina was successful in raising money from the UK Film Council to create a short digital film fund for black and ethnic filmmakers. Martina has sat on the steering groups of Games Eden, a business development group for the Games Industry in the East of England, and Aurora (formerly the Norwich International Animation Festival).
Martina is a member of BAFTA and she is also a qualified Assessor and IQA.
Ashley eventually moved onto print and project management working at several of the UKs top 10 fully integrated communication and creative agencies. Here Ashley gained experience and knowledge of above, below and through the line communications working with a variety of clients including blue chip, retail and communication companies and charities. These clients included Dell, Sony, Argos, BT and many of the larger charities such as RSPCA, WWF, and WaterAid. For 8 years Ashley specialised in direct marking print and project management for many of her clients and managed marketing budgets of up to £10m.
Ashley has worked alongside digital and graphic designers, art directors and photographers and has a great understanding of the digital and creative sector.
Since leaving the BBC Denise moved to the childcare sector, managing various settings and has invaluable experience in safeguarding and how to run successful businesses. She is a fully qualified Tutor/Assessor and has many years’ experience of delivering functional skills and various training programmes based around the needs of the students.
Since then Kristy has worked in a variety of companies in various industries from import/export, audio visual and more recently communications, both as an administrator and bookkeeper. Within these roles, she worked alongside senior accountants and company directors managing all company financial records and transactions.
Training Staff
All Trainers are industry professionals with a proven track record in training and development. Most of our Trainers are also Assessors, but we also engage specialist trainers such as Camera Operators, Editors and Producers, where appropriate, to deliver technical training. We also have a pool of technical trainers who we use for specific training, such as camera, editing and radio.
The training, coaching and support part of the learning environment encouraged Claire to retrain as a tutor and assessor when she left the BBC in 2006. Since then she has worked for a range of public and private organisations including training providers and colleges as a course tutor and assessor in disciplines ranging from creative media and management to social care and customer service.
Claire has navigated many changes in the sector over the past 30 years and remains positive and encouraging to learners, offering information, advice and guidance as required.
John has worked as a Producer, Broadcast Journalist, Senior Broadcast Journalist, Broadcast Coordinator and Outreach Manager at the BBC before setting up as a freelance media professional in 2016. John is currently mentoring and supporting the Salford cohort of Broadcast Production Assistants on the BBC Apprenticeship Scheme.