West Yorkshire Create Growth Programme

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*Applications now closed*

West Yorkshire Create Growth Programme

  • Is creativity at the heart of your business? Design, fashion, architecture, film, broadcast, createch, gaming, immersive, publishing, music, theatre, art, heritage, craft or media?
  • Are you based in West Yorkshire Combined Authority area?
  • Do you need help building your confidence as a founder to make decisions on investment, IP, business structures and growth plans?

Get Investment Ready

Get Investment Ready is designed to support creative businesses like yours. The programme will help you to develop the skills to secure investment so that you can achieve your ambitions for company growth. It is tailored to the needs of different creative disciplines, their respective markets, governance and distribution models.

Stage 1

*Applications now closed*

Stage 1 has been designed for businesses that want to grow and explore commercial investment pathways. Over six months, you will be placed in a cohort of businesses with access to: a course of workshops designed to unlock your commercial capacity and describe routes to investment and growth; two one-to-one mentoring sessions to define and refine your business ambitions; access to the Ethical Equity Simulator – a unique piece of software that enables users to learn about the different types of investment from a practical point of view. Stage 1 closes with a diagnostic session with investment mentors to help you plan the next steps on your investment journey.

Stage 2

*Applications are now closed*

Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses that are ambitious to secure commercial investment. Over nine months, you will receive: on-going one-to-one mentoring to address your challenges and craft a bespoke nine-month journey for your business; a course of workshops covering business foundations and sector-specific challenges; opportunities to meet and pitch to investors.

How to apply

Applications are now closed.

To keep up to date with the programme and other opportunities in West Yorkshire, make sure to sign up to our mailing list.

*Applications now closed*

Stage 1 has been designed for businesses that want to grow and explore commercial investment pathways. Over six months, you will be placed in a cohort of businesses with access to: a course of workshops designed to unlock your commercial capacity and describe routes to investment and growth; two one-to-one mentoring sessions to define and refine your business ambitions; access to the Ethical Equity Simulator – a unique piece of software that enables users to learn about the different types of investment from a practical point of view. Stage 1 closes with a diagnostic session with investment mentors to help you plan the next steps on your investment journey.

*Applications are now closed*

Stage 2 is an intensive investment readiness programme for businesses that are ambitious to secure commercial investment. Over nine months, you will receive: on-going one-to-one mentoring to address your challenges and craft a bespoke nine-month journey for your business; a course of workshops covering business foundations and sector-specific challenges; opportunities to meet and pitch to investors.

Applications are now closed.

To keep up to date with the programme and other opportunities in West Yorkshire, make sure to sign up to our mailing list.

FAQs

FAQs

Please read our programme FAQs before submitting your EOI.

Contact us

Contact Us

Email our Creative UK West Yorkshire programme team at westyorkshirecgp@wearecreative.uk to start a conversation.

You can also complete the form below to be added to our mailing list and start receiving updates on the programme and other West Yorkshire opportunities.

Delivery and funders

Delivery and funders 

The Create Growth Programme is funded by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and aims to support creative businesses in planning for growth and exploring and securing commercial investment opportunities.

The programme will be delivered by Creative UK in partnership with West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

FAQs

Please read our programme FAQs before submitting your EOI.

Contact Us

Email our Creative UK West Yorkshire programme team at westyorkshirecgp@wearecreative.uk to start a conversation.

You can also complete the form below to be added to our mailing list and start receiving updates on the programme and other West Yorkshire opportunities.

Delivery and funders 

The Create Growth Programme is funded by the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and aims to support creative businesses in planning for growth and exploring and securing commercial investment opportunities.

The programme will be delivered by Creative UK in partnership with West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

DCMS Create Growth Fund Competition 3

DCMS Create Growth Fund Competition 3

UK registered micro, small or medium enterprises in the creative sector, in twelve specified regions of England, can apply for £10k-£30k for innovation projects to grow their business via Innovate UK.

Learn more about the opportunity and how to apply at Innovate UK’s website.

DCMS Create Growth Fund Competition 3

UK registered micro, small or medium enterprises in the creative sector, in twelve specified regions of England, can apply for £10k-£30k for innovation projects to grow their business via Innovate UK.

Learn more about the opportunity and how to apply at Innovate UK’s website.