Cornwall Create Growth Programme
- Does your business have creativity at its heart? (e.g.: design, fashion, architecture, film, broadcast, createch, gaming, immersive, publishing, music, theatre, art, heritage, craft, media).
- Are you operating in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly?
- Do you need help building your confidence as a founder, to make decisions on with investment, IP, business structures and growth plans?
Get Investment Ready
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.
Stage 1
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:
- Creative Minds Bootcamp: Discovering and exploiting your Intellectual Property with Erica Wolfe Murray over 2 days of in person training.
- Investment 101: An overview of different types of investment and how they might impact your company structure with our Lead Investment Mentor
- Commercial Business Models and Legal Advice for Creative Sub Sectors
- Deep Dive Days on how to access networks and make sales e.g commercial touring or making your building work for you.
- Sustainability: Environmental and financial advice.
Stage 2
Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses who are ambitious to get commercial investment.
- Diagnostic meetings with investment mentors will precede your application and will support you to dig deeper into your business plans and finances to look at what scaling up might offer you and how investment can help. These are individual diagnostic meetings with one business / applicant at a time.
- Online and in person workshops, events, and talks that provide overarching business skills and tools but also sector specific advice and resources.
- Peer to Peer Learning Sessions that will give you a regular place to share experiences, explore challenges as a wider team and consider your place in the wider creative industry ecology in Cornwall
- One to One Mentorship that ensures you get bespoke advice and coaching to clarify your vision and business model. The mentor will support you to write business plans, proposal, and investment pitches ready for an investment application process.
- Open events to learn from experienced founders, intensive development courses, multi-day residentials.
Stage 1
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:
- Creative Minds Bootcamp: Discovering and exploiting your Intellectual Property with Erica Wolfe Murray over 2 days of in person training.
- Investment 101: An overview of different types of investment and how they might impact your company structure with our Lead Investment Mentor
- Commercial Business Models and Legal Advice for Creative Sub Sectors
- Deep Dive Days on how to access networks and make sales e.g commercial touring or making your building work for you.
- Sustainability: Environmental and financial advice.
Stage 2
Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses who are ambitious to get commercial investment.
- Diagnostic meetings with investment mentors will precede your application and will support you to dig deeper into your business plans and finances to look at what scaling up might offer you and how investment can help. These are individual diagnostic meetings with one business / applicant at a time.
- Online and in person workshops, events, and talks that provide overarching business skills and tools but also sector specific advice and resources.
- Peer to Peer Learning Sessions that will give you a regular place to share experiences, explore challenges as a wider team and consider your place in the wider creative industry ecology in Cornwall
- One to One Mentorship that ensures you get bespoke advice and coaching to clarify your vision and business model. The mentor will support you to write business plans, proposal, and investment pitches ready for an investment application process.
- Open events to learn from experienced founders, intensive development courses, multi-day residentials.
Stories from the programme
Still have questions? Look at our FAQ’s document HERE.
