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Creative England receives Regional Growth Fund investment

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The Government has announced Creative England as one of the successful bidders to receive investment through the second round of its £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund.

Creative England has secured c.£5 million RGF funding for ‘Digital Champions’, a private sector-led scheme providing development funding and market expertise to small creative and digital businesses working in cross-platform content and services.

‘Digital Champions’ will provide match funding and additional support to creative and digital SMEs in the North and North West, Birmingham and the West Midlands, and the far South West, areas identified as vulnerable to public sector job losses and with lower levels of enterprise and private sector growth.

Funding will help high potential businesses in these areas overcome market barriers and gain competitive advantage from the continued explosion in demand for cross platform content.