Applications now closed
- Does your business have creativity at its heart? (e.g.: design, fashion, architecture, film, broadcast, createch, gaming, immersive, publishing, music, theatre, art, heritage, craft, media).
- Are you operating in Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, Northumberland, County Durham, Sunderland, or South Tyneside?
- Do you need help building your confidence as a founder, to make decisions with investment, IP, business structures and growth plans?
North East Create Growth Programme is designed to help creative businesses like yours. The fully funded programme will support you to develop the skills to secure investment so that you can achieve your ambitions for your company to grow. It is tailored to the needs of different creative disciplines, their respective markets, governance and distribution models.
About the programme:
Applications closing Friday 23rd August
Create Growth Programme – Stage 1
Create Growth Programme – Stage 1 has been designed for businesses who want to grow and explore commercial investment pathways. Over six months, you will be placed in a cohort of businesses with access to:
- a course of workshops designed to unlock your commercial capacity and describe routes to investment and growth
- two one-to-one mentoring sessions to define and refine your business ambitions
- log ins to the Ethical Equity Simulator – a unique piece of software that enables users to learn about the different types of investment from a practical point of view.
Stage 1 also closes with a diagnostic session with investment mentors to help you plan the next steps on your investment journey.
Applications closing Monday 29th July
Create Growth Programme – Stage 2
Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses with ambitious to get commercial investment. Over nine months, you will receive: on-going one-to-one mentoring to address your challenges and craft a bespoke nine-month journey for your business; a course of workshops covering business foundations and sector-specific challenges; opportunities to meet and pitch to investors.
Applications closing Friday 23rd August
Create Growth Programme – Stage 1
Create Growth Programme – Stage 1 has been designed for businesses who want to grow and explore commercial investment pathways. Over six months, you will be placed in a cohort of businesses with access to:
- a course of workshops designed to unlock your commercial capacity and describe routes to investment and growth
- two one-to-one mentoring sessions to define and refine your business ambitions
- log ins to the Ethical Equity Simulator – a unique piece of software that enables users to learn about the different types of investment from a practical point of view.
Stage 1 also closes with a diagnostic session with investment mentors to help you plan the next steps on your investment journey.
Applications closing Monday 29th July
Create Growth Programme – Stage 2
Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses with ambitious to get commercial investment. Over nine months, you will receive: on-going one-to-one mentoring to address your challenges and craft a bespoke nine-month journey for your business; a course of workshops covering business foundations and sector-specific challenges; opportunities to meet and pitch to investors.
Who is delivering the programme?
The North East Create Growth Programme is a collaboration between the North East Combined Authority and Creative UK. Seven local authorities across Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Gateshead, County Durham and Northumberland are also supporting the programme. In addition, sector specialists including: Generator, Sunderland Software City, North East Screen, New Writing North, and North East Local Enterprise Partnership are also involved.
Who is delivering the programme?
The North East Create Growth Programme is a collaboration between the North East Combined Authority and Creative UK. Seven local authorities across Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Gateshead, County Durham and Northumberland are also supporting the programme. In addition, sector specialists including: Generator, Sunderland Software City, North East Screen, New Writing North, and North East Local Enterprise Partnership are also involved.
Who is delivering the programme?
The North East Create Growth Programme is a collaboration between the North of Tyne Combined Authority and Creative UK. Seven local authorities across Newcastle, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Gateshead, Durham and Northumberland are also supporting the programme. In addition, sector specialists including: Generator, Sunderland Software City, North East Screen, New Writing North, Creative Fuse and North East Local Enterprise Partnership are also involved.
Stories from the programme:
I can’t tell you what a difference being part of this organisation is making to the journey of developing Bamboo Media Productions Ltd. Bit-by-bit, with every talk, zoom, programme, workshop, and mentor session we’re getting fitter and fitter as a business.
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It’s fantastic, it’s given all of us the opportunity to challenge ourselves really and put ourselves in the situation of what it’s actually like to pitch for our businesses right now in front of an audience we haven’t yet met. It puts us on the spot. Things like a one minute pitch, a three minute pitch, these things are really important to have prepared.
It’s really supportive, it’s a great atmosphere, a room of really talented young businesses and people who are really enthusiastic about what it is they’re doing. Creative UK is certainly helping us a great deal.
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Contact:
Please contact northeast@wearecreative.uk if you want to start a conversation with us or have any questions and a member of the team will get back to you.
Creative UK North East’s Create Growth Programme has been developed with and funded by North East Combined Authority and Department of Media, Culture and Sport to increase the sustainability of the creative industries in the North East.
