{"id":517,"date":"2023-02-14T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=517"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:18:30","slug":"national-create-growth-programme-icci-partnership-with-create-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2023\/02\/14\/national-create-growth-programme-icci-partnership-with-create-south-east\/","title":{"rendered":"iCCi partnership with Create South East"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Kent announces partnership with <strong>Create South East<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n<p>Creative businesses in the South East are getting support to grow their businesses!<\/p>\n<p>Ambitious creative business owners in Essex, Kent and Sussex can now benefit from a special programme of support designed to help them prepare for future financial investment and help them to scale and grow their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Following funding from the UK Government last year, the Create South East Investment Readiness Programme is being launched to provide support for high-growth potential businesses in the creative industries through the development of the knowledge and skills needed to access investment.<\/p>\n<p>The programme starts this Spring and runs to 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our region is full of incredible creative talent. Create South East is here to bring our<br \/>\ncollective expertise and experience, so whether you work in architecture, design, fashion,<br \/>\nfilms, games, performance or tv, let\u2019s take your ambitions a step closer to being a business<br \/>\nreality.&#8221; Angels@Essex, Creative UK, Screen South, Wired Sussex \u2013 proud delivery partners of Create South East<\/p>\n<p>Business owners can benefit from 1-2-1 expert mentoring to help address challenges, explore opportunities and develop new networks.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be tailored workshops covering business foundations and discipline or sub sector- specific challenges, along with the opportunity to meet and pitch for investment as part of the national Create Growth Programme<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/createsoutheast.org.uk\/\">Create South East<\/a> is a consortium of businesses, agencies and local government bodies who have come together to work with national statutory agencies to deliver the South East part of the national Create Growth Programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Does your business have creativity at its heart? (eg: design, fashion, architecture, fi lm, broadcast, createch, gaming, immersive, publishing, music, theatre, art, heritage, craft, media).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Are you operating in Kent, Essex or Sussex?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Are you ready to take the next big step on your journey to grow your business?<\/p>\n<p>Create South East is designed to help creative businesses like yours.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will support you to develop the skills to secure investment so that you can achieve your ambitions for<br \/>\nyour company to grow. It is tailored to the needs of different creative disciplines, their respective markets, governance and distribution models.<\/p>\n<p>Head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/createsoutheast.org.uk\/\">website<\/a> and fill out an Expression of Interest form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Kent announces partnership with Create South East. Creative businesses in the South East are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2023\/02\/14\/national-create-growth-programme-icci-partnership-with-create-south-east\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}