Grants for UK High Growth Creative Small Businesses
The Create Growth Programme provides a package of targeted support for high-growth creative businesses to scale, build investor networks and reach their potential. The funding is designed to help creative firms explore new innovation projects as a stimulus for growth.
Approximately £3 million has been allocated to fund growth-focused innovation projects. Each project’s grant funding request must be between £10,000 and £30,000.
Applications are invited from UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the creative industries. Creative industries are those which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.
Applicants must be focused on one or more of these creative industry sub-sectors:
- Advertising and marketing
- Architecture
- Crafts
- Design and designer fashion
- Film
- Television
- Video
- Radio
- Photography
- IT, gaming, software and computer services
- Publishing
- Museums, galleries and libraries
- Music, performing and visual art
Businesses must be registered in one of the twelve regions in England appointed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS):
- Greater Manchester
- Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire
- North East of England
- West of England and Cornwall
- South East Coast
- Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Greater Lincolnshire
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
- Hull and East Yorkshire
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
- Devon
- Hertfordshire
Applications are open between 7 May 2024 and 19 June 2024 (11:00).
