Overview

The competition has been designed to focus on all the essential skills needed for a successful career within the Creative Media industries. Competitors undertake varying creative roles associated with designing and producing a creative outcome, and are required to work towards industry standards.   

The competition is largely practical and is open to people working up to Level 1 and is designed so that there is a clear line of sight to appropriate jobs, impacting on economic growth and personal success.

Important Information: Skill Specific Rules

The skills you need to demonstrate

  • Creativity

  • Attention to detail

  • IT skills

  • Teamwork

  • Research skills

  • Presentation skills

  • Project management

  • Organisation and planning

Prepare for competition success

Our library of endorsed local skills competition briefs ‘benchmarking assessments’ helps prepare learners to build technical skills, productivity, and mindset competencies for national competition success, including employability progression pathways.

Paired with the benchmarking tracker, educators can record progress, identifying strengths and target areas for improvement. Together, they offer a reliable, standards-led framework, creating a sustainable model for skills development that supports educators to empower learners to be competition ready.

Access on the Learning Lab

Contact details

Pami.Johal@nwslc.ac.uk

Entry criteria

  • The Foundation Skills competitions have been created to showcase the skills of students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), additional learning needs (ALN), or who require additional support for learning (ASL), who are currently undertaking a course with an FE or training provider at Entry level 3 or level 1.
  • This is a paired team competition (team to comprise of exactly 2 members. Teams will not be able to progress to the next stage if there are not 2 members in the team).
  • When registering teams, the team name must be the name of the college. If more than one team is entering the teams are to be numbered, e.g. College Team 1, College Team 2 etc (names of competitors input must be the same as per registration).

How it works

Registrations open on Monday 2 March 2026, 9am and will close Friday 27 March 2026, midnight.

Entry Stage will be released Monday 20 April with a final deadline of Wednesday 29 April 2026.

Qualifiers will take place Tuesday 23 June and Wednesday 24 June 2026 at North Warwickshire & South Leicestershire College – Nuneaton Campus.

To help finalists prepare ahead of the UK Final, we will provide relevant technical training and share mindset development techniques, to support them to remain focused on achieving success.

Prepare students and apprentices by engaging with our benchmarking resources to master their skills and mindset masterclasses to build confidence and resilience on the WorldSkills UK Learning Lab.

The National Finals are scheduled to take place in Wales during the week commencing 16 November 2026.

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