Alexis Michaelides

Alexis Michaelides launched Big Creative Training in Waltham Forest in 1999 delivering creative courses to young people from across the borough. In 2013 Alexis and his team founded Big Creative Academy, a 16-18 free school, and together with Big Creative Training established, Big Creative Education (BCE).
Over the last 20 years, BCE has grown to offer full-time courses and apprenticeships across the creative and digital sectors to over 1500 students and apprentices each year. BCE is now the largest creative college in London
Alexis launched the ‘Creative Works’ co-work space at the heart of the Blackhorse Lane Creative Enterprise Zone in 2019 – a unique model of co-work with an education and social mission.