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Creative Industries Grant

The Creative Industries Grant offers up to £2,500 to small and medium-sized moving image businesses in England outside London, to help pay for consultants on planning, marketing and growth. This scheme has closed.

Run by Creative UK

Checked against the official page (wearecreative.uk) on 9 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 29 September 2025. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

Grants of up to £2,500 to subsidise working with a consultant on business planning, strategy, marketing, IP monetisation or international operation. For companies working in moving image for storytelling, including film, television, games, animation and immersive industries.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 29 September 2025

As stated: Deadline for the final round of applications is Monday 29 September 2025 at 5pm.

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £2,500

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Registered SMEs working in moving image for storytelling, based in England outside London, with a founder working in the screen sector, registered as a Limited Company on Companies House, and a relevant track record in the screen industry.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

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

Confirmed on the official page

Sectors

creative industries, film, television, games, animation, immersive

How to apply

Visit the Creative UK website for more information.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: England-wide

England

Confirmed on the official page

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

Open across England, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

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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 9 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 9 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Creative UK before you apply.

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