In a time where the UK is seeing a 57% drop in further education enrollments for creative subjects, mentorships and privately sponsored programmes have become a valued pathway for many young artists. This trend seems inevitable: as demand for creative skills surges and transforms, traditional public education fails to keep up. Trailblazing within this effort to relieve limitations felt by young artists, Relentless Energy have partnered with global community Pirate Studios and brought back the Freeform Forum Initiative. I was able to attend their finale event, where each mentee presented a pitch for £10,000 towards the creative project that they spent 3 months cultivating under this mentorship…