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Creative Enterprise Workshops
Created in collaboration between North East Cultural Freelancers and North East Culture Partnership, this is a free online (and anonymous) tool for both organisations and freelancers to audit your current practices, give you suggestions for improvements, help sector relationships grow and improve working conditions overall for cultural freelancers and cultural workers.
Created by Creative Enterprise, One Thing I Know provides heard-earned insights from 33 creative entrepreneurs. Separated into six chapters – Vision & Realities, Audience & Buyers, Creativity & Dedication, Growing Pains & Opportunity, People & Culture and Money & Focus – One Thing I Know is an essential source of inspiration and reassurance for anyone pursuing a similar path.
Narrated by the talented voices of Dan Pye and Katie Rand, this audiobook version brings the transformative journey of entrepreneurship in a captivating and engaging manner.
Creative UK will allow me to spend more time fully focused on progressing my career in moving-image, rather than hurrying to find multiple illustration jobs to subsidize the costs of developing my portfolio.
The team at Creative UK have been very attentive, advising and organising workshops with their team in order to help me progress my practice as an artist. I believe with more investment to the region companies like Creative UK could wake a sleeping giant, creating more opportunities to earn in the North East.
With the help and care of the Creative UK team, tiny dragon Productions has been able to triple it’s turnover year on year and to achieve our biggest ideas on a much shorter timescale. Their expertise, guidance and incredible network has turbo charged our fledgling business – giving us skills and advice as well as support to successfully access vital funding.
Competition funding from the Create Growth Programme has opened up a wealth of fresh opportunities for us to learn and grow. The funding has catalysed the creation of an exciting new product for tiny dragon and allowed us to develop strong business relationships with new partners, enter a new marketplace and build a scaleable business.
