Small Grants are now CLOSED
These grants are designed to support freelancers and SMEs working in the culture and creative sector based in Northumberland, Newcastle and North Tyneside . With grants of up to £8,000, this financial support is to enable freelancers and SMEs to build on their commercial ideas, and to create opportunities to become more sustainable or grow their businesses. Applications for Investment Grants close on 27th September 2024.
For the full list of approved support and eligibility criteria please see our FAQ document.
Have some questions about these grants? Watch back our webinar with the team where we explain the guidelines and answer people’s questions.
Eligible Activity:
These grant investments are to enable businesses to enable long-term sustainability and/or growth. This could include:
- Diversification – to try out a new and potentially high-risk business activity which may lead to new revenue streams
- Working new partnerships or existing partnerships in a different way
- Trying out a new business model
- Bringing in short term expertise – digital, marketing, finance, legal, IP or technical (to support product/prototype development)
- Small Capital purchase
- To enable the business to adapt to become greener and more environmentally sustainable
- To acquire new skills within the business, through up skilling the existing workforce or acquiring new staff, including supporting internships/apprenticeships.
Should you have any access or communication requirements relating to our applications and guidance, then please contact the team at northeast@wearecreative.uk. Funds are limited and at the discretion of Creative UK.
Find out more about other businesses we’ve supported with grant funding:
We are so thankful to be recipients of this amazing grant. While the pandemic has obviously had a huge impact on our sector, there has also been learning and growth in diversifying the offer of creative companies like ours; this grant will help us continue to develop our digital capacity, particularly within innovative immersive technologies, and deepen our understanding of improving access to culture across multiple platforms.
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We are thrilled and very grateful to have received this grant from Creative UK and North East Combined Authority. Moving Parts Arts CIO will now be able to begin focussing on building and strengthening our team and resources, which in time will allow us to engage more people and produce more ambitious work.
Up until this point all of our festivals, events and community projects have been run on a shoestring and have relied on many hours of voluntary service from the core team and our supporters who believe in the project. This grant marks a turning point where we can start to build strong foundations for the future.
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The Culture and Creative Investment Programme has been developed with and funded by North East Combined Authority to increase the sustainability of the creative industries in the area.
