Join us for the launch of an exciting new £1.275M programme for potential high growth creative industries businesses – a specialist Investment Readiness Programme – Creative East – part of the Create Growth Programme.

Creative East will help ignite growth in the Creative Industries in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

This launch event will give you the opportunity to meet programme leaders, find out about the application process and what businesses from the creative industries with high growth aspirations can gain. Giving speeches will be Julian Munson, Head of Enterprise Zones and Innovation at New Anglia LEP, Sam Burton, Senior Investment Advisor at University of East Anglia (UEA) and successful film and TV producer Richard Johns, Founder of Argo Films who has several thriller feature films and TV dramas under his belt.

Book your ticket and join us at 1pm for lunch at Theatre Royal in Norwich for an exciting afternoon of networking.

Creative East: Create Growth Programme is led by New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in partnership with Greater Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Norfolk County Council, Suffolk County Council.

It is a specialised investment readiness programme delivered by University of East Anglia, in partnership with University of Suffolk, Anglia Ruskin University and Norwich University of the Arts in collaboration with industry.

Agenda:

♦ Arrival

♦ Networking

♦ Opening speeches from:

o Julian Munson, Head of Enterprise Zones and Innovation – New Anglia LEP

o Sam Burton, Senior Investment Advisor, UEA

o Richard Johns, Film Producer and member of Creative East Industry Steering Group

♦ Networking

Lunch will be provided

Creative East Launch Event