Creative Growth: Hull and East Yorkshire - Launch Event

Creative Growth: Hull and East Yorkshire is an exciting new business supprot programme for businesses in the creative industries in Hull and East Yorkshire.

Delivered in partnership between the HEY Business, Growth and Skills Hub (the former HEY LEP), Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and the University of Hull, the programme will equip ambitious growth-orientated creative businesses with the tools they need to grow and access the external investment in order to do so.

The programme is funded by the government department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and is one of 12 regional programmes operating across England. Innovate UK - the government's innovation agency - will work alongside the programme to offer grant funding and access to external investor networks.

Join us for breakfast on Thursday 16th May to learn more about the programme, incuding the support available and how to access it. Business advisors will be there on the day to discuss the programe with interested businesses and EOIs will be open to firms on the day.

A full event agenda is as follows:

8am-8.40am: Event sign-in, breakfast refreshements and networking

8.40am-8.45am: Welcome Address - Keynote Speaker TBC.

8.45am-9am: The Creative Industries in Hull and East Yorkshire - Jon Brunton, Growth Hub Manager, HEY Business, Growth and Skills Hub.

9am-9.15am: Creative Growth: Hull and East Yorkshire Programme. What is it, who is it for, and how to access it - Joe Bishop, Head of Executive Education, Hull Business School, University of Hull and Andrew Richardson, Create Growth Programme Manager, HEY Business, Growth and Skills Hub.

9.15am-9.30am: Innovate UK Create Growth Funding Competition (Grants) and Investor Capacity Building - Emma Cooper, Knowledge Transfer Manager for Creative Industries, Innovate UK.

9.30am-9.45am: Q&A Session

9.45am-11am: Refreshments, Networking and Programme sign-ups

Should you have any questions, please contact [email protected]

This launch event for the Creative Growth: Hull and East Yorkshire programme is aimed at businesses from the creative industries in Hull and East Yorkshire. However, business support providers, intermediaries and professional services firms are welcome to join us at the event to help inform their knowledge of the programme, in order to drive referrals.

We are looking to welcome businesses from the following creative sub-sectors:

• Advertising, Marketing and PR
• Architecture
• Crafts
• Design
• Film, TV, Video, Radio and Photography
• IT, Software, Apps, Video Games
• Museums, Galeries and Libraries
• Music, Visual and Performing Arts
• Publishing and Translation Services

Host or Publisher HEY LEP