DCMS

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), through Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation, provides approximately £3 million in grant funding for innovation projects via the Create Growth Programme. The funding supports creative economy development across six designated regions in England, including Greater Manchester, the West of England, Norfolk-Suffolk-Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire-Derbyshire-Lincolnshire, Kent-Essex-Sussex, and North East England.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is to invest approximately £3 million in innovation projects. This funding is from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) Create Growth Programme for the six appointed regions in England. The six regions are:

Greater Manchester
the West of England with Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire
Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire
Kent, Essex, East and West Sussex
the North East of England
The programme support package will comprise of three complementary strands:

business support targeted at the creative industries
finance
investor capacity building activities
The aim of this competition is to provide a package of targeted support to high-growth creative businesses to scale, build investor networks and reach their potential. This funding is designed to help creative businesses explore new innovation projects as a stimulus for growth.

Your proposal must:

be from the creative industries
be from a micro, small or medium size enterprise registered or operational in a DCMS Create Growth Programme region
focus on a clear growth opportunity and the proposed innovation to address it
demonstrate the impact funding and support can have on the growth plan of your business
engage with the regional support if your application is successful
In applying to this competition, you are entering into a competitive process. This competition closes at 11am UK time on the deadline stated.