Where We’re At

We are building this platform in stages and putting each piece up as it is ready. This page shows exactly where everything stands, so you never have to guess.

Each item is badged with who it is for.

Live Now

• Register with Our Hub. Free, open to anyone aged 16 to 25 in the West Midlands, and the way you hear about everything else.BFI Hub
• Introductory Courses. What each academy is, where it runs and who it is for.BFI HubBFI Intro Course
• Alumni. What membership gives you if you have already completed a course.BFI FA Alumni
• Ask Us a Question. A direct line to the team. We answer every message.BFI HubBFI Delivery Partners
• What’s On. What runs across the year and how to hear about it. The listing you can browse and book from is in progress.BFI HubBFI Year Round Activity
• Partners. Who we deliver with across the West Midlands.BFI Delivery Partners
• News. Updates as things happen, including this page.BFI HubBFI Delivery Partners
• Equal Opportunities Monitoring. Separate from your application and used only for monitoring.BFI Intro Course

In Progress

• Member logins. Your own account, so what you see is shaped by who you are. Alumni first.BFI HubBFI FA Alumni
• The community space. Talk to other members, ask questions, hear about work early. For members aged 18 and over.BFI FA AlumniBFI Year Round Activity
• Introductory Course applications. Apply online when applications open, rather than by email.BFI Intro Course
• Site feedback. Tell us what is working and what is awkward, so we fix the right things.BFI HubBFI Delivery Partners
• Course materials online. Two courses and sixteen lessons are built, along with recorded sessions. They open up once logins are running.BFI FA AlumniBFI Intro Course
• Travel bursary. How to get help with the cost of getting there. The page is up and the guidance is being written.BFI Intro CourseBFI Year Round Activity
• About Rural Media, Privacy and Accessibility. These pages exist and are being written.BFI HubBFI Delivery Partners

Roadmap

• Placement information. What a placement involves, what to expect and how to prepare.BFI Intro CourseBFI FA AlumniBFI Delivery Partners
• Placement review. Tell us how your placement went, so the next one is better.BFI Intro CourseBFI FA Alumni
• Expenses claims. Claim travel and other costs online, with clear guidance on what you can claim.BFI Intro CourseBFI FA AlumniBFI Year Round Activity
• Hub Advisory Group. Who they are, what they decide, and how they shape what we do.BFI HubBFI Delivery Partners
• Apply to join the Advisory Group. Have a say in how the Hub runs.BFI HubBFI FA AlumniBFI Year Round Activity
• Community agreement. Everyone agrees to this before they get access. It sets out how we treat each other, how we keep each other safe, and what happens if someone breaks it.BFI Intro CourseBFI FA AlumniBFI Year Round ActivityBFI Delivery Partners
• Hub statistics. Who we are reaching and what we are delivering, shared openly.BFI HubBFI Delivery Partners
• Partner information. Everything a delivery partner needs in one place.BFI Delivery Partners
• Applying through the site. One way to apply for opportunities, instead of a separate form each time.BFI HubBFI Year Round Activity
• Podcast and video strand. In planning. More detail once the shape is settled.BFI HubBFI Year Round Activity

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Release Notes

Most recent first.

1 September 2026

• The registration form now asks which academy you attended and which year, instead of a blank box. That means we can tell you about things that actually apply to you rather than sending everyone the same email.
• Added a question about Education, Health and Care Plans, so we know how to support you properly from the start rather than finding out later.
• Split the interests list apart. Screenwriting, directing and acting are now three separate choices, and there is an art department option, because the old grouping was too broad to tell us anything useful.
• Your age and today’s date now fill themselves in on the registration form.
• Built the community space and brought it fully into the site’s own look, so moving between the two feels like one place rather than two websites.
• Made every form on the site easier to use with a keyboard. The outline showing where you are is now clearly visible, and the tick boxes are bigger and easier to hit.
• Built a single sign-in page for everything, so one account will reach your courses, your alumni area and the community.
• Added two ways to tell us what you think: a short review of the site, and a way to report anything broken.
• Published this page.

20 August 2026

• The site went live and registration opened to anyone aged 16 to 25 across the West Midlands.
• Published the Introductory Courses pages, covering each academy, where it runs and who it is for.
• Published the Alumni page, explaining what membership offers if you have already completed a course.
• Added Ask Us a Question, so there is a direct line to the team.
• Published What’s On and the Partners page.

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Tell Us What Would Help

This is being built for the people who use it, so if something is missing or awkward we would rather hear it now than after it is finished.