{"id":283050,"date":"2025-11-25T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:55:08","slug":"actor-james-norton-backs-scarborough-creative-careers-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283050\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor James Norton backs Scarborough creative careers programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said the free programme, which has also received backing from the town&#8217;s MP, is scheduled to run between January and July 2026 and would offer teenagers the chance to gain industry experience across all theatre departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alison Hume, MP for Scarborough and Whitby, who is a former screenwriter and producer, said: &#8220;I know how rewarding careers in the creative industries can be and have never ceased to be amazed by the talent in this sector within our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Hume said she believed the initiative would &#8220;provide some of the brilliant young people in our area with access to the creative industries and help them fulfil their creative potential&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norton previously said the SJT had kickstarted his love of theatre and described it as &#8220;a beacon of excellence in my home county&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young people between the ages of 15 and 17, who are interested in the scheme, have been advised to apply via the theatre&#8217;s website by 31 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Local Democracy Reporting Service said the free programme, which has also received backing from the town&#8217;s MP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}