Dear Parent/Guardian,

We are delighted to have your child take part in our Young Writers Programme. This includes our in school creative writing workshops with our assigned Writer-in-Residence, national writing competitions, our Young Writers Festival, regional events, our summer residential, and a published group anthology featuring your child’s writing.

First Story is a registered charity working towards a society that encourages and supports young people from all backgrounds to write creatively for pleasure, power and agency. We believe that everyone has a story to tell, a unique voice, and a right to be heard. We partner with non-selective secondary schools in England offering high quality after school enrichment provision. Our flagship Young Writers Programme empowers young people with the confidence and skills to tell their own stories.

To fully participate in and benefit from our programme, all First Story students must complete an Intellectual Property (IP) consent form. Please read through and complete this with your child at the start of the programme.

Thank you and we look forward to working together!

Student’s consent and acknowledgement

In return for our arranging for you to take part in our programme as a participant and by completing this online form, you agree and acknowledge as follows:

Your contributions

1. You consent to taking part in the First Story programme. 
2. You consent to being photographed, filmed and/or recorded by or for us in connection with the programme
3. You consent to be interviewed in connection with First Story’s work to raise awareness of the benefits of creative writing in the media, such as in print publications, TV and radio programmes, online and mobile content.

Grant of rights

4. We may use (and authorise the use of) your authorised contributions for all purposes that are consistent with our charitable status by any means.  Accordingly, you:
   1. grant us a non-exclusive licence to use your contributions for those purposes;
   2. grant us every consent that may now or later be required by law for such use;
   3. accept that we may edit your contribution as appropriate for such use; and
   4. accept that we shall credit you as a contributor, but only where reasonably practical or suitable.

Privacy notice

5.  You acknowledge that we shall use your personal details:
   1. for all purposes of delivering our programme;
   2. when conducting surveys of our programme (the responses to which we may cite in anonymised form in publications and funding applications); and
   3. for any other relevant purposes described in our privacy notice.
6. You acknowledge that you have read that notice, which explains the personal data that we collect from you, and how, why and how long we process that information.

Please complete this form to confirm your agreement and consent.

An * below indicates a mandatory field.