Today, Create South East announce the first 22 businesses to be taken on to its investment-readiness programme, made possible by the Create Growth Programme, funded by DCMS.
The 22 businesses working in the creative industries from Essex, Kent and Sussex, have already been taken through a business diagnostics session with industry experts, and will now go on a 9-month programme to get their creative business ready for investment. The companies represent a range of Creative business types from Broadcast film, tv and animation, to design, live performance and creative wellbeing. Companies will be mentored and take part in workshops and events specifically tailored to their cohort.
The Companies are:
- A+C Studios, Kent (Animation)
- Bold & Break, West Sussex (Digital Media)
- Borderpoint Films, Kent (Film and TV)
- Brown Bear Audio, Brighton and Hove (Digital Media)
- Crawley Film Initiative, West Sussex (Film)
- Curious Families UK, Kent (Museums, Libraries and Galleries)
- Digitom Video Production, Kent (Advertising and Media)
- Globetrotter Television, Kent (TV)
- Happenstance Films, Brighton and Hove, (Film)
- Kids Active Media, Essex (Publishing)
- Kinshipped Kent (Design)
- KM Television, Kent (Film and TV)
- Little Phoenix, Kent (Digital Media)
- Minus Cloud Nine, Essex (Design)
- Mission Digital Graphics, Brighton and Hove (Immersive Media)
- Morton Waters, East Sussex (Advertising and Media)
- Palladian Media, Medway (Digital Media)
- Sarasara Overseas, Brighton and Hove (Immersive Media)
- Studio Sam Causer, Kent (Architecture)
- Super Strange Studios, West Sussex (Animation)
- Tallulah & Hope, Kent (Design)
- 24 Fingers, Essex (Advertising and Media
The cohort announcement follows the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Creative Industries Sector Vision, which sets out a shared ambition for the UK Government and industry to grow the Creative Industries and create 1 million extra jobs by 2030; and confirms the Government’s commitment to the Creative Industries as a high-growth priority sector. The report states:
DCMS will provide £10.9 million in additional funding between 2023 and 2025 to expand the Create Growth Programme into a £28.4 million programme. The CGP will grow from six to twelve English regions outside of London, supporting over 2,000 businesses to access private investment and scale up, turning today’s start-up founders into tomorrow’s CEOs.
Create South East is one of the first 6 regions to run the Create Growth programme, which is being delivered by Angels @Essex, Creative UK, Screen South and Wired Sussex.
To find out more about the businesses involved in the first cohort of the Create South East programme, head over to our Cohort 1 Page.
