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Creative Enterprise Scaling Up

Creative Enterprise Scaling Up is a support programme for founders of screen-based storytelling businesses, such as film, TV, games and immersive companies, based in the North East Combined Authority. This scheme has closed.

Run by Creative UK · funded by British Film Institute (BFI)

Last read from growthhub.northeast-ca.gov.uk on 31 Oct 2026.

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A 5-month business development programme with 6 intensive workshops and 4 coaching sessions for screen sector companies looking to scale, including film/TV, games, immersive and createch businesses.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

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Deadline

Applications currently closed; sign up for newsletter to be notified when applications open

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How much

£250 +VAT per company to participate; support valued at over £5,000 per person

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Who can apply

Founder or co-founder of a screen-based narrative business working in storytelling for the moving image (film/TV, games, immersive, createch). Business must be based (registered or have a trading address) in England. Must have successfully taken a product to market or launched a support service that enables narrative storytelling. Business must have generated revenue in the last year. Must be committed to long-term growth of the business.

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Business size

Not stated

Sectors

screen, film, tv, games, immersive, createch

How to apply

Register for Creative UK's newsletter to be notified when applications open.

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Where it is open: the North East Combined Authority area

North East Combined Authority

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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: County Durham, Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Gateshead.

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Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from growthhub.northeast-ca.gov.uk on 31 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 5 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Creative UK before you apply.

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