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Create Growth Programme

The Create Growth Programme is a support programme for creative businesses in North East England, offering business support and help to access finance and investment. This scheme has closed.

Run by Creative UK

Checked against the official page (wearecreative.uk) on 5 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

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A programme for high-growth creative businesses between seed and scaling stages, offering business support and help to access finance and investment.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Not confirmed on the official page

How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Registered businesses operating in creative sectors (advertising and marketing; architecture; crafts; design and designer fashion; film, TV, video, radio and photography; IT, software and computer services including gaming; publishing; museums, galleries and libraries; music, performing and visual arts) and trading or registered in Durham, Northumberland, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne, North and South Tyneside and Sunderland.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Any size

Not confirmed on the official page

Sectors

creative industries

How to apply

See the programme page.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: the North East

North East England

Not confirmed on the official page

See everything open inNorth East England

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Shaded: 12 council areas in North East England.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (wearecreative.uk) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 17 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Creative UK before you apply.

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