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Creative Export Accelerator

Creative Export Accelerator is a support programme with bursaries of up to £6,000 for freelancers, start-ups and small and medium-sized creative businesses based in West Yorkshire. This scheme has closed.

Run by West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Last read from westyorks-ca.gov.uk on 29 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

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A programme offering training, mentoring and workshops, plus bursaries of up to £6,000, to help West Yorkshire creative businesses and freelancers take their work to international markets.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

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Deadline

Not stated

How much

Up to £6,000

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Who can apply

Tailored for freelancers, start-ups and SMEs in West Yorkshire's creative sector.

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Business size

Start-ups, Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

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Sectors

creative industries

How to apply

Register your interest via the training or bursary information pages; bursary applicants first submit an expression of interest, then a bursary application form.

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Where it is open: West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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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: Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield.

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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. Last read from westyorks-ca.gov.uk on 29 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 15 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with West Yorkshire Combined Authority before you apply.

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