Creative Enterprise Announces the Return of Two Business Support Programmes to Empower Female-Led and Early-Stage Screen Businesses
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Industry Leaders from BBC, Meta, All3Media, YouTube, Digital Catapult & Many More Set to Speak at This Year’s One-Day Conference
London, 15 August 2024 – Creative UK is excited to announce the highly anticipated Female Founders Conference, an exclusive event dedicated to ambitious female entrepreneurs in the screen industries. This conference, proudly sponsored by British Business Bank, is set to take place on Thursday 12 September 2024 at Toynbee Hall in London, bringing together a vibrant and diverse cohort of female business leaders from across the country.
Despite the recent rise in female-led companies, women in business continue to face unique challenges and disparities. The conference programme is crafted to address these issues by imparting essential skills, boosting confidence, and inspiring business growth. Attendees will gain invaluable insights and strategies to expand their enterprises, ensuring their businesses thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
This year’s conference will feature an impressive lineup of industry leaders and innovators, including Jane Kinnard, Lead Creative Strategist at Meta; Sara Geater, Chief Operating Officer at All3media; Kate Morton and Sarah Muller, Senior Heads of Childrens Commissioning at BBC; and many more. The full conference schedule can be found here.
The conference programme will feature a rich array of sessions focusing on key issues shaping the future of creative industries. Topics include The Impact of Tech & AI in the Creative Industries, exploring how technological advancements are transforming creative processes and business models; The Future of the Independent Games Industry, providing insights into emerging trends and opportunities for independent developers; and How Commissioning and Financing Models are Changing for Content Producers, discussing the evolving landscape of Film & TV financing and where producers should be targeting their efforts.
The event’s programming is born out of the successful Female Founders business support programme that Creative Enterprise has run for the last four years, empowering female-founded businesses across film and TV, games, immersive experiences, animation, and createch. The topics covered at this year’s conference include the impact of AI, the future of the games industry, access to investment and more.
Haley Edwards, Head of Creative Enterprise at Creative UK said:
“Being a Female Founder in a male dominated environment presents its challenges, and the Creative Enterprise Female Founders Programme is a step towards breaking down some of the barriers. The annual event continues the work to grow a network of empowered female leaders who support and champion one another while building a framework for the next generation of female business talent across the screen industries.
Warren Ralls, UK Network Managing Director (British Business Bank), said:
“We know that female entrepreneurs can face additional barriers when growing their businesses in comparison to their male counterparts. The British Business Bank is keen to play its part in breaking down these barriers and supporting women to succeed in all sectors, including the creative industries.”
Tickets are now on sale. For more information and to register for the event, please visit our website.
About Creative Enterprise: Creative Enterprise is a bespoke set of initiatives for ambitious screen businesses to access connections, training and networks to achieve business growth. Our goal is to give film & TV, games, immersive, animation and creative tech companies a disproportionate advantage in the industry. Working closely with our partners at the BFI, Creative Enterprise has been designed by industry leaders to take ambitious entrepreneurs who work in moving image for storytelling, spanning film and television, games and technology, on a journey to maximise their ability and create opportunities for business growth. Creative Enterprise has proved transformational for participating businesses, with an earned reputation for providing intensive support, connections and opportunities to fulfil growth potential.
https://www.wearecreative.uk/support/creative-enterprise/
About the British Business Bank
The British Business Bank is the UK government’s economic development bank. Established in November 2014, its mission is to drive sustainable growth and prosperity across the UK and to enable the transition to a net zero economy, by improving access to finance for smaller businesses. Its remit is to design, deliver and efficiently manage UK-wide smaller business access to finance programmes for the UK government.
The British Business Bank’s core programmes support over £17.4bn[1] of finance to almost 64,000[2] smaller businesses.
As well as increasing the supply and diversity of finance for UK smaller businesses through its programmes, the Bank works to raise awareness of finance options available to smaller businesses. The British Business Bank Finance Hub provides independent and impartial information to businesses about finance options, featuring short films, expert guides, checklists and articles from finance providers to help make their application a success.
The British Business Bank is also responsible for administering the government’s three Coronavirus loan schemes and its Future Fund, together responsible for delivering £80.4bn in finance to 1.67m businesses. These schemes are now closed to new applications.
British Business Bank plc is a public limited company registered in England and Wales, registration number 08616013, registered office at Steel City House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 2GQ. Wholly owned by HM government, the Bank and its subsidiaries are not banking institutions and do not operate as such. They are not authorised or regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). A complete legal structure chart for the group can be found at www.british-business-bank.co.uk.
[1] Figures as at end March 2024
[2] Figures as at end March 2024
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