The 2019 Coventry and Warwickshire Business Festival brochure has officially been released with over 15,000 copies being distributed across the region.
Digital and Creative
Overview
“Digital Creative is not a sector in Coventry & Warwickshire. It is a way of thinking that empowers us to shape the future for our region and for the world. Our CWLEP Digital Creative Business Group includes representatives from businesses working in geo-spatial mapping, in games development, in digital design, in information technology, in performance. What brings us together is that we all use creative thinking and the power of technology to evolve the products and services we deliver. We are supported by Economic Development representatives from Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council, the Growth Hub, and the Coventry & Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership. We also build better partnership working with the invaluable academic research and testbed facilities we have at the Universities of Coventry and Warwick through their respective representation in the group.”
Sarah Windrum, CWLEP Board Lead for the Digital Creative Business Group
Objectives
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Be ambassadors for the Digital Creative organisations. Raising the areas profile for the innovative and evolutionary businesses in the region
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Identify and discuss issues of concern for the group, whether from the private or public sector.Facilitate growth and continually improving performance within the ecosystem.
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Assist the development of a pipeline of projects and funding opportunities with a balanced mix of large scale ‘flagship’ and small/medium sized schemes.
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Identifying the priority sectors where activity should be focused, suggesting pro-active activities that could be undertaken and suggesting medium and long term targets for growth.
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Reporting back to the CWLEP Board against the CWLEP’s strategic goals.
Members
Sarah Windrum (Board Lead) - Emerald Group
Liz Katz - Noisegate Media
Nick Harper - Exient
Annie Gardner - Vitsoe
Rebekah Simpson - Playground Games
Tom Wilcock - Auster Aviation
Kate Ainscough - Freestyle Innovation
Helen Routledge - Totem Learning
Neil Curtis - Net Visability
Rhys Jarman - Wright Hassall
Louise Partridge - Merryhill Accountancy
Jane Bailey - Motionhouse
Jon Nealon - RBH
Al Allaway - CAB Studios
Andrew Todd - University of Warwick
Paul Fairburn - Coventry University
Jaymie Thakordas - Coventry & Warwickshire Growth Hub
Andy Williams - CWLEP
Simeon Lee - Warwickshire County Council
Stacy O’Connor - CWLEP
David Hope - Coventry City Council
Gemma Gathercole - CWLEP
View the Digital Creative Business Group Terms of Reference
News
Monday, October 21, 2019 - 10:08
Monday, October 14, 2019 - 10:11
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 08:40
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - 14:37
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 14:03
Monday, September 2, 2019 - 14:58
Monday, September 2, 2019 - 10:28
Thursday, August 29, 2019 - 08:57
Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - 13:22
Monday, July 29, 2019 - 10:34
Some of the UK’s most creative individuals including Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight have launched a powerful new body to turbo charge the region’s screen industry.
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The manager of FarGo Village, Coventry's creative quarter for specialist shops, markets, studios, music and art, has praised entrepreneurs for surviving and thriving after the hub celebrated its fi
Businesses can help Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre take a stride towards a fundraising target by taking a step in its new development that will make it more self-sustainable in the future.
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, Birmingham-born actor Adil Ray and Coventry’s Debbie Isitt, who created the Nativity film franchise, will be part of a new taskforce to supercharge the West Mi
There is just one week remaining for businesses to submit applications to run events in the 2019 Coventry & Warwickshire Business Festival before the deadline of 5pm on 9 September.
Coventry City of Culture Trust has been awarded funding from Arts Council England to deliver a new leadership training programme for the city.
Businesses wishing to run an event in the 2019 Coventry & Warwickshire Business Festival have just four weeks left in which to submit their events.
The Box at FarGo Village is being upgraded into a state-of-the-art performing arts and events venue and office space in Coventry’s Creative Quarter.
Delivery Programme
The Delivery Programme is a living document which constantly evolves. This document will be reviewed and updated regularly. A formal update of the Delivery Programme will be published annually. Download the document here.
The Delivery Programme has 5 key themes:
- Business Support
- Inward Investment
- Infrastructure
- Skills
- Wider Engagement