Creative East - Create Growth Programme

The Creative East - Create Growth Programme is an investment readiness and business support programme funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), led by New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) and Greater Cambridgeshire and Greater Peterborough Combined Authority (GCGP). Creative East is delivered by the University of East Anglia (UEA) with delivery partners Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), University of Suffolk (UoS) and Norwich University of the Arts (NUA). Create Growth is a programme of specialised investment readiness and business support for Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based creative industries businesses with high growth aspirations.

Creative East is for creative industries SMEs who are preparing to take on investment to develop and grow their business. It will see four cohorts of businesses taken through a programme of one to one advisor support, mentoring, seminars, round table sessions, pitching cycles, networking events and tailor made professional support to get them in the best shape to take on investment of any type or size to grow their business.

The East is one of six regions in England awarded the funding to deliver the support.

If you would like to find out more, please register your interest by visiting https://www.creativeeast.org.uk/

Email: ​ ​ CreativeEast@uea.ac.uk