Conversations With Purpose

19/01/2021

Are you an SME or freelancer in the creative industry looking to harness financial resources and support? Apply to our Bounce Back Funding programme for forward-thinking masterclasses and bespoke mentoring.

31/05/2019

Looking forward to being part of the CreativeFuse team hosting out next CAKE event at Teesside Uni - where we learn from the best about digital in galleries. Will you join us? Use the FREE booking link below.

CAKE 31 Hack the Museum Join speakers from heritage, academia and enterprise to discuss the emerging and digital developments shaking up the museum sector. As with all CAKE events, talks will be followed by an open Q & A panel, followed by informal networking with fellow attendees. Registrations fro...

18/04/2019

Great line up of speakers - tickets limited but free - so pls book asap.

What will work look like in the North East cultural and creative industries in two, ten, or twenty years’ time? How can creative careers be sustainable in rapidly changing, often challenging, social and economic circumstances? How do smaller or independent organisations find their place in the eme...

09/04/2019

Free tickets now available for the next CAKE event - this month its in Sunderland.

CAKE 30 Space Place & Location Data Our CAKE events celebrate and bring together a broad range of disciplines, expertise and knowledge to discuss current and emerging challenges and opportunities. CAKE 30 is a particularly good example of this – we will be exploring how place and location-based da...

27/11/2018

Looking forward to celebrating Creative FUSE TV freelancers and SME's - all working to strengthen the creative, cultural and heritage sector of the NE region. Well done to all !

Please join us for our second Innovate Tees Valley celebration event to mark a major milestone for the project. You will be joined by fellow beneficiary SMEs who have engaged with the project and share in an afternoon of celebration and appreciation of the impact and value to Tees Valley companies a...

10/11/2018

Great example of progressive employment practice .

  About the BIC The BIC is an enterprise agency and business centre responsible for putting its heart into supporting new and established businesses

09/09/2018

Supporting the ‘how to’ of diversity and inclusion in creative industry.

< Go back to news listing Film Producer Rebecca O’Brien shares her views on the release of the new BFI and BAFTA Principles and Guidance Posted on 14 February 2018 Share It’s quite something that the film industry has managed to wrangle so many organisations to come together to back a set of Pri...

31/05/2018

The Great Exhibition of the North is a three-month celebration of the North of England’s pioneering spirit and the impact of our inventors, artists and designers. It’s a chance to show how our innovative spirit has shaped the world and is building the economy of tomorrow. The Northern Powerhouse...

20/02/2018

Following our project 'kick off' in Autumn 2017, Creative FUSE based at Teesside Uni are launching the Graduate Placement Programme to support innovation capacity for Tees Valley freelancers and SMEs. Email me at [email protected] if you are interested in finding out more. We can now offer a paid 4 week post graduate placements from a variety of disciplines, to benefit creative and cultural businesses and social enterprises .

A programme to encourage economic growth through creativity has been launched in the Tees Valley.

29/01/2018

This To Do List could really support NE business community to thrive. Heres to him getting some items checked off at DAVOS meet up.

To-do lists are an inevitable part of most people’s work schedule (if not lives) but some are more arduous than others.  Matt Hancock is less than one m...

10/01/2018

A fun exploration of lateral thinking, fifty years after Edward de Bono coined the term.