Games Careers Week is a week-long festival organised by The National Videogame Museum. Originally founded by the NVM, Grads In Games and Into Games in 2021, these non-profit organisations worked together to advance games education in the UK and the event continues to go from strength to strength each year.

With a mission of Videogames Are For Everyone. Forever, The National Videogame Museum aims to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for all to enjoy. It explores the history and cultural importance of videogames and provides award winning educational programmes. The NVM is governed by the BGI. Registered charity number 1183530.

The event brings together a variety of organisations, studios and educational institutions each year to support and produce events throughout the week.

Games Careers Week is trying to tackle 2 related problems.

1. Most parents and young people, especially diverse people, don’t know the UK supports >25,000 well-paid, creative technology jobs in games.
2. The games workforce isn’t as diverse as the UK population or UK games players.

As the UK emerges from repeated lockdowns, an unprecedented recession and an educational crisis that has left underpriveleged children far behind in their education, leaders in the games sector from its contingent of non-profits decided to present the excitement, challenge and opportunity of careers in games.

The sector is adding thousands of well paid jobs right across the country and we believe that everyone should have a chance of learning how to make games and pursue a career in games.

Games Careers Week showcases the skills, pathways and potential of games careers to the public, and especially diverse and under-represented groups, through events and media, foregrounding diverse developers, working with an amazing range of organisations who already run inspirational programmes across the UK.

• School children to choose & study the creative tech skills needed to thrive in the modern world.
• Parents to challenge gender stereotypes & guide children towards well-paid creative careers.
• Educators to find resources with accessible games tools and teach STEAM skills in classrooms.
• Job-seekers of all ages to find resources and prepare to start careers in games.
• Games studios to work with schools & universities and share their career opportunities.