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Create South East

Interested?

Supporting you to turn your ideas into a leading creative business

  • Does your business have creativity at its heart? (eg: design, fashion, architecture, film, broadcast, createch, gaming, immersive, publishing, music, theatre, art, heritage, craft, media).
  • Are you operating in Kent, Essex or Sussex?
  • Are you ready to take the next big step on your journey to grow your business?

Create South East 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.

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What do I get from the programme?

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1-2-1 Mentoring

Expert mentors will work with you to craft a bespoke nine-month journey. Together you will address your challenges, explore opportunities and develop new networks.

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Peer to Peer Cohorts

You will be put together with a curated cohort of similar creative businesses. The cohort will support, champion and learn from each other throughout the programme.

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Tailored Workshops

Cohorts will take part in workshops that are designed specifically for them, covering business foundations and discipline or sub sector- specific challenges.

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Investment Opportunities and Networking

The cohorts will be introduced to creative industry investors and have exclusive opportunities to pitch for investment as part of the national Create Growth Programme.

Who is Create South East?

Create South East 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.

Our purpose is to ensure that the support offered is high quality, relevant, up-to-date and discipline specific.

Programme Partners

Angels at Essex logo
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Screen South logo
Basildon Council logo
Brighton and hove council logo
East Sussex County Council Logo
Essex County Council logo
Medway Council Logo
South East Local Enterprise Partnership logo
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West Sussex County COuncil Logo
UKRI Logo
Kent Councty COuncil logo

"Our region is full of incredible creative talent. Create South East is here to bring our collective expertise and experience, so whether you work in architecture, design, fashion, films, games, performance or tv, let’s take your ambitions a step closer to being a business reality."

Angels@Essex, Creative UK and Screen South.

Proud delivery partners of Create South East.

Latest News & Events

Events

Apply now to join the XR Hack in London (14th-16th August)

Calling all UK XR Studios & Hackers, are you interested in a chance to win $100K+ in prizes? The Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network will be running…
Events

Programme Business, Borderpoint Films, Hosts Film School with Screen South

Our cohort one business Borderpoint films has recently been hosting a three day film school in collaboration with Screen South and Ashford Borough Council. Screen South,…
Create South East Meets

Programme Members 24 Fingers Celebrate 10 Years Of Business

This month our programme members 24 Fingers celebrated 10 years of business. We spoke to their founder, Emma Goode, about her experience over the last…

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