Get Investment Ready is designed to help creative businesses like yours. The 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.
This programme is designed for businesses who are ambitious to grow and want to explore commercial investment pathways.
Coaching and Diagnostic: Businesses will be offered a mentoring session at the beginning and midway through the programme with the aim of defining and refining their ambitions for investment. At the end of the programme businesses will undertake a diagnostic with a panel of investment mentors who will provide individual feedback and referrals for future activity.
Ethical Equity Simulator: A six-month subscription to a unique piece of software that enables users to learn about the different types of investment from a practical point of view. The Simulator encourages founders to put themselves in an investors’ shoes and experience commercial investment from their perspective. This is an enjoyable way of learning and can provide invaluable insight in preparation for pitching, networking and negotiating within the investment community.
Cohort Workshops: Businesses will take part in a series of in person and online workshops that are designed to unlock their commercial capacity and describe routes to investment and growth. Content covered will include:
Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses who are ambitious to get commercial investment.
For Stage 1, you will need to say yes to the following questions:
For Stage 2, you will need to say yes to the following questions:
If you do not yet have a registered business and are a sole trader there is still time to get some advice about registering a business and taking that first step. Creative UK are working with partners to provide webinars and advice drop ins over the next two months so you can be eligible for the programme. Learn more on our events page.
This programme is designed for businesses who are ambitious to grow and want to explore commercial investment pathways.
Coaching and Diagnostic: Businesses will be offered a mentoring session at the beginning and midway through the programme with the aim of defining and refining their ambitions for investment. At the end of the programme businesses will undertake a diagnostic with a panel of investment mentors who will provide individual feedback and referrals for future activity.
Ethical Equity Simulator: A six-month subscription to a unique piece of software that enables users to learn about the different types of investment from a practical point of view. The Simulator encourages founders to put themselves in an investors’ shoes and experience commercial investment from their perspective. This is an enjoyable way of learning and can provide invaluable insight in preparation for pitching, networking and negotiating within the investment community.
Cohort Workshops: Businesses will take part in a series of in person and online workshops that are designed to unlock their commercial capacity and describe routes to investment and growth. Content covered will include:
Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses who are ambitious to get commercial investment.
For Stage 1, you will need to say yes to the following questions:
For Stage 2, you will need to say yes to the following questions:
If you do not yet have a registered business and are a sole trader there is still time to get some advice about registering a business and taking that first step. Creative UK are working with partners to provide webinars and advice drop ins over the next two months so you can be eligible for the programme. Learn more on our events page.
What is the application process?
The deadline for full applications is April 1st 2024.
If you would like to apply for the Stage 1 Intervention there are two ways to do this
What is the application process?
Stage 2: The deadline for full applications is March 4th 2024.
If you would like to apply for the business support programme we ask you to either meet with our programme manager Suzie West or complete an initial application form called an Expression of Interest (EOI) You can apply by completing the EOI here.
If you pass the criteria for the first stage, you will be asked to complete an application form.
Businesses may be invited into a diagnostic process. This diagnostic process will allow for our investment and business mentors to look at the potential of your business and it’s future invest -ability. The Creative UK Cornwall team will also use the diagnostic to understand how the business support programme needs to be shaped, which mentors we need to employ and how the broad range of selected applicants can support each other across sectors. If you are not successful, then the support team have a good understanding of how to support you next and where to sign post you to. At the end of the 9 Month programme your mentor and the Creative UK Cornwall team will help you to build a pitch and proposal for investment and will be introduced to investment partners or other finance options. The key strand to the investment is through Innovate UK’s Funding Competition.
Find out more in our upcoming online explainer and Q&A webinars or join Suzie in person at one of our Cakey Tea events. Find out more on our events page.
What is the application process?
The deadline for full applications is April 1st 2024.
If you would like to apply for the Stage 1 Intervention there are two ways to do this
What is the application process?
Stage 2: The deadline for full applications is March 4th 2024.
If you would like to apply for the business support programme we ask you to either meet with our programme manager Suzie West or complete an initial application form called an Expression of Interest (EOI) You can apply by completing the EOI here.
If you pass the criteria for the first stage, you will be asked to complete an application form.
Businesses may be invited into a diagnostic process. This diagnostic process will allow for our investment and business mentors to look at the potential of your business and it’s future invest -ability. The Creative UK Cornwall team will also use the diagnostic to understand how the business support programme needs to be shaped, which mentors we need to employ and how the broad range of selected applicants can support each other across sectors. If you are not successful, then the support team have a good understanding of how to support you next and where to sign post you to. At the end of the 9 Month programme your mentor and the Creative UK Cornwall team will help you to build a pitch and proposal for investment and will be introduced to investment partners or other finance options. The key strand to the investment is through Innovate UK’s Funding Competition.
Find out more in our upcoming online explainer and Q&A webinars or join Suzie in person at one of our Cakey Tea events. Find out more on our events page.
The first phase of Cornwall’s Create Growth Programme is officially underway!
In July 2023, this intensive, six-month support scheme kicked off with a launch event held at Newlyn Art Gallery welcoming each of the 15 creative businesses taking part in 2023’s inaugural cohort, Kernow Awenek Onan (Creative Cornwall One).
With a diverse range of subsectors spanning across film, fashion, design, music and more, we are confident that this first cohort will pave the way for many more successful businesses to come. We cannot wait to see the growth and success that these 15 businesses will achieve through this programme.
The cohort came together for the first time in September 2023 at Newquay Orchards for workshops, conversations and the start of some fantastic collaboration between the businesses. A truly exciting day, with some sunshine to match. The cohort for Kernow Awenek Dew (Creative Cornwall Two) spans a diverse range of creative industry subsectors, including screen, live arts and production, marketing and design, fashion and visual arts, and apps and content.
Applications are now open for DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 2. If you have questions about your application for Innovate Competition 2, please contact Innovate KTN. If you would like to notify us that you are considering an application to Competition 2, please fill in our Expression of Interest form mentioning the competition in the ‘Tell us how you plan to deploy investment’ field.
The first phase of Cornwall’s Create Growth Programme is officially underway!
In July 2023, this intensive, six-month support scheme kicked off with a launch event held at Newlyn Art Gallery welcoming each of the 15 creative businesses taking part in 2023’s inaugural cohort, Kernow Awenek Onan (Creative Cornwall One).
With a diverse range of subsectors spanning across film, fashion, design, music and more, we are confident that this first cohort will pave the way for many more successful businesses to come. We cannot wait to see the growth and success that these 15 businesses will achieve through this programme.
The cohort came together for the first time in September 2023 at Newquay Orchards for workshops, conversations and the start of some fantastic collaboration between the businesses. A truly exciting day, with some sunshine to match. The cohort for Kernow Awenek Dew (Creative Cornwall Two) spans a diverse range of creative industry subsectors, including screen, live arts and production, marketing and design, fashion and visual arts, and apps and content.
Applications are now open for DCMS Create Growth Programme Competition 2. If you have questions about your application for Innovate Competition 2, please contact Innovate KTN. If you would like to notify us that you are considering an application to Competition 2, please fill in our Expression of Interest form mentioning the competition in the ‘Tell us how you plan to deploy investment’ field.
In our continued efforts to celebrate the Creative Industries in Cornwall, we want to introduce the five Cornwall based winners of DCMS Create Growth Fund: Competition 1 as issued by Innovate UK
In our continued efforts to celebrate the Creative Industries in Cornwall, we want to introduce the five Cornwall based winners of DCMS Create Growth Fund: Competition 1 as issued by Innovate UK
Still have questions? Look at our FAQ’s document HERE.