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- Meet Cornwall’s First Create Growth Programme Cohort
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.
Introducing Kernow Awenek Onan (Creative Cornwall One):
Cindy Dalgleish, ASONE Perform
Founder and lead development specialist drawing on 30 years of cultural development expertise to deliver ASONE. A Business Park in Cornwall with 330 sq. ft. of employment infrastructure with a focus on creating a supply chain for the Digital Broadcast and Live performance industries in Cornwall.
Website: https://asoneperform.com/
Barbara Santi, Awen Productions
Barbara Santi is an award-winning creative documentary filmmaker/producer with over 20-years’ experience of using film and digital media for positive social change. She is co-director/co-founder of Awen productions based in West Cornwall. At the heart of Barbara’s work is to raise and empower under-represented people’s voices through film using collaborative and participatory methods. Barbara has astute fundraising and management skills and is a proficient cinematographer, documentary storyteller and digital expert. In 2020 Barbara was one of 10 female entrepreneurs selected in Creative England’s Female Founders. In 2021 her feature documentary No Holds Barred — The Life and Art of Matthew Lanyon toured indie cinemas across UK including Crouch End Picturehouse and Lewes Depot and won ‘Best Documentary’ at New Renaissance Festival, Amsterdam. Barbara’s current one-hour documentary, King for a Day, is being distributed by the prestigious DER in the US.
Website: https://awen.org.uk/
Tara Ashe, Block Design
Block Design began in 2000, shortly after I graduated. I was keen to combine a passion for design with my engineering background, to create a range of functional, beautiful lifestyle products. Each day the studio is a collaborative hub of creativity, colour, and innovation. Every product begins life in the studio, situated above our workshop. We work hard to ensure we deliver the highest quality design and finish. Our aim is to bring joy, infusing life with colour, distinctive design and products made to last. We believe our business can be a platform for positive change and are pleased to say we have recently hit the submit button to begin the B-Corp accreditation process. We strongly believe in the B-Corp values and have been making tweaks and amendments to how we do things with the planet and sustainability in mind. We work with the best independent retailers in the world such as Eataly and Papier Tigre. Our products can be found in design stores and museums internationally including Moma and Tate Modern. We exhibit at trade shows in New York and London. We love meeting our stockists and catching up with other design companies.
Website: https://blockdesign.co.uk/
Cindy Dalgleish, ASONE Perform
Founder and lead development specialist drawing on 30 years of cultural development expertise to deliver ASONE. A Business Park in Cornwall with 330 sq. ft. of employment infrastructure with a focus on creating a supply chain for the Digital Broadcast and Live performance industries in Cornwall.
Website: https://asoneperform.com/
Barbara Santi, Awen Productions
Barbara Santi is an award-winning creative documentary filmmaker/producer with over 20-years’ experience of using film and digital media for positive social change. She is co-director/co-founder of Awen productions based in West Cornwall. At the heart of Barbara’s work is to raise and empower under-represented people’s voices through film using collaborative and participatory methods. Barbara has astute fundraising and management skills and is a proficient cinematographer, documentary storyteller and digital expert. In 2020 Barbara was one of 10 female entrepreneurs selected in Creative England’s Female Founders. In 2021 her feature documentary No Holds Barred — The Life and Art of Matthew Lanyon toured indie cinemas across UK including Crouch End Picturehouse and Lewes Depot and won ‘Best Documentary’ at New Renaissance Festival, Amsterdam. Barbara’s current one-hour documentary, King for a Day, is being distributed by the prestigious DER in the US.
Website: https://awen.org.uk/
Tara Ashe, Block Design
Block Design began in 2000, shortly after I graduated. I was keen to combine a passion for design with my engineering background, to create a range of functional, beautiful lifestyle products. Each day the studio is a collaborative hub of creativity, colour, and innovation. Every product begins life in the studio, situated above our workshop. We work hard to ensure we deliver the highest quality design and finish. Our aim is to bring joy, infusing life with colour, distinctive design and products made to last. We believe our business can be a platform for positive change and are pleased to say we have recently hit the submit button to begin the B-Corp accreditation process. We strongly believe in the B-Corp values and have been making tweaks and amendments to how we do things with the planet and sustainability in mind. We work with the best independent retailers in the world such as Eataly and Papier Tigre. Our products can be found in design stores and museums internationally including Moma and Tate Modern. We exhibit at trade shows in New York and London. We love meeting our stockists and catching up with other design companies.
Website: https://blockdesign.co.uk/
Andrew Quigley, AQA Films
Andrew has worked extensively in the film and television industry as an editor and director for over thirty years. In 2022 he was accepted into the guild of British Film Editors. His work has been awarded by BAFTA, Grierson and other international film bodies. In 2006 Andrew directed and edited the feature documentary Diameter of The Bomb which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. The film went on to win the Special Jury Award at Boulder International Film Festival. His work, primarily in documentary and drama, has covered topics including current affairs, history, music and arts. In 2022 Andrew launched a series of online video tutorials covering many aspects of film and television techniques. He now lives and works in Cornwall.
Website: https://www.andrewquigley.com/
Emma Pauncefort, CRD Records
CRD Records is a leading independent classical record label with a global reputation for high quality recordings from world-class artists and a nigh on 50-year history behind it. Our catalogue holds both well-known and loved classics, as well as a wide range of recordings that are unique to us. We have a particularly strong representation of choral music, piano and instrumental whilst spanning centuries of musical styles. The CRD catalogue features several world-class classical artists: Nash Ensemble; New College, Oxford; Keble College, Oxford; Paul Crossley; Maya Magub; Virginia Black
Website: https://www.crdrecords.com/
Barney Chandler and Emilie Fontaine, Cobo Creative
Cobo Creative is a communication design agency specialising in science, technology, and engineering. Their mission is to communicate complex ideas simply, cutting through the complicated to make their clients’ knowledge more accessible to the world. Emilie and Barney created the agency in 2015. With Barney’s design background and Emilie’s knowledge of digital and data, they are instinctively able to see both sides of a problem. Over the years, they’ve had opportunities to grow the team and apply their skills in a range of complex markets, from the pharmaceutical industry, digital health, and marine technology to the public sector. Every project has sharpened their approach and shaped who they are. Cobo Creative offers services ranging from branding and eLearning to web design, development and more.
Website: https://www.cobocreative.com/
Andrew Quigley, AQA Films
Andrew has worked extensively in the film and television industry as an editor and director for over thirty years. In 2022 he was accepted into the guild of British Film Editors. His work has been awarded by BAFTA, Grierson and other international film bodies. In 2006 Andrew directed and edited the feature documentary Diameter of The Bomb which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival. The film went on to win the Special Jury Award at Boulder International Film Festival. His work, primarily in documentary and drama, has covered topics including current affairs, history, music and arts. In 2022 Andrew launched a series of online video tutorials covering many aspects of film and television techniques. He now lives and works in Cornwall.
Website: https://www.andrewquigley.com/
Emma Pauncefort, CRD Records
CRD Records is a leading independent classical record label with a global reputation for high quality recordings from world-class artists and a nigh on 50-year history behind it. Our catalogue holds both well-known and loved classics, as well as a wide range of recordings that are unique to us. We have a particularly strong representation of choral music, piano and instrumental whilst spanning centuries of musical styles. The CRD catalogue features several world-class classical artists: Nash Ensemble; New College, Oxford; Keble College, Oxford; Paul Crossley; Maya Magub; Virginia Black
Website: https://www.crdrecords.com/
Barney Chandler and Emilie Fontaine, Cobo Creative
Cobo Creative is a communication design agency specialising in science, technology, and engineering. Their mission is to communicate complex ideas simply, cutting through the complicated to make their clients’ knowledge more accessible to the world. Emilie and Barney created the agency in 2015. With Barney’s design background and Emilie’s knowledge of digital and data, they are instinctively able to see both sides of a problem. Over the years, they’ve had opportunities to grow the team and apply their skills in a range of complex markets, from the pharmaceutical industry, digital health, and marine technology to the public sector. Every project has sharpened their approach and shaped who they are. Cobo Creative offers services ranging from branding and eLearning to web design, development and more.
Website: https://www.cobocreative.com/
Christine Cowin, Golden Wild
Golden Wild is leading a revolution in marketing – repurposing it on a global scale to address the so-called ‘polycrises’ humankind is facing. Annual marketing spend will reach $4.7 trillion by 2025. That money is driving rampant consumerism, increasing the damaging extraction of natural resources, raising CO2 emissions and contributing to a decline in our mental health. Audiences are sophisticated and they are weary; overwhelmed by the constant bombardment of advertising, they are switching off. But their hunger for quality content continues to rise. This is a golden opportunity to repurpose marketing for good. We are an early leader in the use of unbranded, brand-funded stories in long formats, with real market value. We shift the narrative and lead positive activism for people and planet, leading to behaviour change on a mass scale. Golden Wild is the brainchild of and is led by Founder, Christine Cowin, a multi-talented Executive Producer with 25 years’ experience across TV, film, distribution, sponsorship and integrated marketing for blue-chip brands and rights holders, A-list talent and household names and multiple start-ups.
Website: https://www.golden-wild.com/
Justin Wiggan, Internal Garden Ltd
Justin Wiggan is a Cornwall based artist and inventor working at the frontiers of arts and public intervention. His practice includes a range of media from sound, phonics, film, drawing, installation, interventions, and performance, and has also attracted collaboration across the medical research and creative industries sectors. His aim is to educate, share and engage people with sound as a creative field and reconnect with their lives using sound. He also extends his artistic practice into collaborative research in galleries, youth homes, and public access spaces with community groups and leading workshops within areas of vulnerable elements of society, palliative care, mental health, and education. He runs Glass Twin LTD, a company who uses sound as a tool to promote mental wellbeing through technology, reflection, nostalgia, and memory. Glass Twin LTD is a sound and health focused company which aims to improve community resilience and individual wellbeing though a simple, accessible process that reconnects us with the world of sound. Glass Twin uses a reflective process with customers to develop bespoke soundscapes; and products incorporating the soundscape. Glass Twin has worked in a range of settings including hospices, prisons, and schools.
Website: http://www.internalgarden.info/
Shaz Yousaf, MindFeast Games
Shaz has been making and releasing games for 10 years with the latest being the co-op, action-puzzle game BFF or Die which was released on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Amazon Prime and AirConsole, reaching over 100,000 players and a million views on YouTube and Twitch. He’s now a co-founder at Mind Feast Games who work on games and tools that help people feel more connected, socially and emotionally. Their current project is a comedic hospital-themed game called Co OPERATION: MultiTurn.
Website: https://www.mindfeastgames.com/
Christine Cowin, Golden Wild
Golden Wild is leading a revolution in marketing – repurposing it on a global scale to address the so-called ‘polycrises’ humankind is facing. Annual marketing spend will reach $4.7 trillion by 2025. That money is driving rampant consumerism, increasing the damaging extraction of natural resources, raising CO2 emissions and contributing to a decline in our mental health. Audiences are sophisticated and they are weary; overwhelmed by the constant bombardment of advertising, they are switching off. But their hunger for quality content continues to rise. This is a golden opportunity to repurpose marketing for good. We are an early leader in the use of unbranded, brand-funded stories in long formats, with real market value. We shift the narrative and lead positive activism for people and planet, leading to behaviour change on a mass scale. Golden Wild is the brainchild of and is led by Founder, Christine Cowin, a multi-talented Executive Producer with 25 years’ experience across TV, film, distribution, sponsorship and integrated marketing for blue-chip brands and rights holders, A-list talent and household names and multiple start-ups.
Website: https://www.golden-wild.com/
Justin Wiggan, Internal Garden Ltd
Justin Wiggan is a Cornwall based artist and inventor working at the frontiers of arts and public intervention. His practice includes a range of media from sound, phonics, film, drawing, installation, interventions, and performance, and has also attracted collaboration across the medical research and creative industries sectors. His aim is to educate, share and engage people with sound as a creative field and reconnect with their lives using sound. He also extends his artistic practice into collaborative research in galleries, youth homes, and public access spaces with community groups and leading workshops within areas of vulnerable elements of society, palliative care, mental health, and education. He runs Glass Twin LTD, a company who uses sound as a tool to promote mental wellbeing through technology, reflection, nostalgia, and memory. Glass Twin LTD is a sound and health focused company which aims to improve community resilience and individual wellbeing though a simple, accessible process that reconnects us with the world of sound. Glass Twin uses a reflective process with customers to develop bespoke soundscapes; and products incorporating the soundscape. Glass Twin has worked in a range of settings including hospices, prisons, and schools.
Website: http://www.internalgarden.info/
Shaz Yousaf, MindFeast Games
Shaz has been making and releasing games for 10 years with the latest being the co-op, action-puzzle game BFF or Die which was released on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Amazon Prime and AirConsole, reaching over 100,000 players and a million views on YouTube and Twitch. He’s now a co-founder at Mind Feast Games who work on games and tools that help people feel more connected, socially and emotionally. Their current project is a comedic hospital-themed game called Co OPERATION: MultiTurn.
Website: https://www.mindfeastgames.com/
Henry Garfit, Newlyn School of Art
Newlyn School of Art is a dynamic and innovative art school situated in the heart of the famous artistic colony of Newlyn. The school provides a wide range of high-quality and exciting short art courses, online short courses and Year-long courses; all taught by over thirty of the most respected artists working in Cornwall today. They offer several excellent online pre-recorded short courses and over 60 Online Life Drawing Sessions that students can access which enable them to study in their own time from home.
Website: https://www.newlynartschool.co.uk/
Jenny Hindson, Newquay Orchards
The mission of Newquay Orchard is to be the best urban greenspace in the UK that is good for people, good for the environment and good for the economy. With our community, we have transformed an empty green field in the heart of Newquay into a thriving green community hub offering both community services and operating social enterprises. Our community learning services provide support for employability and skills development, health and wellbeing activities, qualifications and education. Our commercial market garden, Grown at Newquay Orchard, supplies veg bags to the local community and our landscape business, Urban Biodiversity, works with local housing providers to bring a bit of the Orchard to people’s doorsteps. Our latest enterprise is Kreft, our new maker space with a hand tool, machine and digital workshop providing sustainable production services, space hire and training. We are truly built by the community for the community.
Website: https://newquayorchard.co.uk/
Laura Ward, Nixon Design
We’re a close-knit team of brand strategists, graphic designers, copywriters, and strategic thinkers. Our team works closely with our clients to uncover their organisational goals and longer-term objectives. We develop creative ideas that drive them forward and help them achieve their goals.
Website: https://www.nixondesign.com/
Henry Garfit, Newlyn School of Art
Newlyn School of Art is a dynamic and innovative art school situated in the heart of the famous artistic colony of Newlyn. The school provides a wide range of high-quality and exciting short art courses, online short courses and Year-long courses; all taught by over thirty of the most respected artists working in Cornwall today. They offer several excellent online pre-recorded short courses and over 60 Online Life Drawing Sessions that students can access which enable them to study in their own time from home.
Website: https://www.newlynartschool.co.uk/
Jenny Hindson, Newquay Orchards
The mission of Newquay Orchard is to be the best urban greenspace in the UK that is good for people, good for the environment and good for the economy. With our community, we have transformed an empty green field in the heart of Newquay into a thriving green community hub offering both community services and operating social enterprises. Our community learning services provide support for employability and skills development, health and wellbeing activities, qualifications and education. Our commercial market garden, Grown at Newquay Orchard, supplies veg bags to the local community and our landscape business, Urban Biodiversity, works with local housing providers to bring a bit of the Orchard to people’s doorsteps. Our latest enterprise is Kreft, our new maker space with a hand tool, machine and digital workshop providing sustainable production services, space hire and training. We are truly built by the community for the community.
Website: https://newquayorchard.co.uk/
Laura Ward, Nixon Design
We’re a close-knit team of brand strategists, graphic designers, copywriters, and strategic thinkers. Our team works closely with our clients to uncover their organisational goals and longer-term objectives. We develop creative ideas that drive them forward and help them achieve their goals.
Website: https://www.nixondesign.com/
Lindsey Hall, Real Ideas Organisation
From supporting young people to find work and develop skills to helping start-ups and enterprises thrive, we work to solve problems and create positive and lasting social change. Established in 2007, we’ve supported thousands of individuals, communities, organisations, and projects to think differently and make a difference. Made up of five business units – Real Immersive, Real Art Making Print, Real Pathways, Real Nature and Neighbourhoods and Badge Nation – Real Ideas works dynamically across a broad range of areas to deliver meaningful impact to people, place, and planet.
Website: https://realideas.org/
Teija Eilola, TEIJA
Finnish Designer and founder of the label, Teija Eilola is a graduate of Royal College of Art where she acquired skills in traditional tailoring and atelier approach to design. Teija launched the line at the final of the Fashion Fringe, having been selected and mentored by Colin McDowell, writer for Sunday Times, and Christopher Bailey, CEO at Burberry. The collection was sold at its first sales showroom to several international stores. Teija has previously worked as joint head of design at an international brand, designer at Japanese jeans label and consultant for other designer labels. Teija has received several design awards and nominations including Royal Society of Arts, BFC Fashion Trust and Fashion Fringe.
Website: https://www.teijaeilola.com/
Kelli Fairbrother, XigXag
At xigxag, we’re disrupting the incumbents who’ve been neglecting the £40Bn digital book industry for decades. We’re making books more accessible, more social and more sustainable with an exclusive listen-and-read concept and the most advanced digital book platform ever imagined.
Website: https://xigxag.co.uk/
Lindsey Hall, Real Ideas Organisation
From supporting young people to find work and develop skills to helping start-ups and enterprises thrive, we work to solve problems and create positive and lasting social change. Established in 2007, we’ve supported thousands of individuals, communities, organisations, and projects to think differently and make a difference. Made up of five business units – Real Immersive, Real Art Making Print, Real Pathways, Real Nature and Neighbourhoods and Badge Nation – Real Ideas works dynamically across a broad range of areas to deliver meaningful impact to people, place, and planet.
Website: https://realideas.org/
Teija Eilola, TEIJA
Finnish Designer and founder of the label, Teija Eilola is a graduate of Royal College of Art where she acquired skills in traditional tailoring and atelier approach to design. Teija launched the line at the final of the Fashion Fringe, having been selected and mentored by Colin McDowell, writer for Sunday Times, and Christopher Bailey, CEO at Burberry. The collection was sold at its first sales showroom to several international stores. Teija has previously worked as joint head of design at an international brand, designer at Japanese jeans label and consultant for other designer labels. Teija has received several design awards and nominations including Royal Society of Arts, BFC Fashion Trust and Fashion Fringe.
Website: https://www.teijaeilola.com/
Kelli Fairbrother, XigXag
At xigxag, we’re disrupting the incumbents who’ve been neglecting the £40Bn digital book industry for decades. We’re making books more accessible, more social and more sustainable with an exclusive listen-and-read concept and the most advanced digital book platform ever imagined.
Website: https://xigxag.co.uk/
Want to be a part of the programme? Fancy being in the next cohort? Head to our website and to complete an expression of interest form to start the process.
