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15/10/2025

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Director of Innovate Educate Ltd, and founder of The Artery. The Artery inspires businesses by working with artists. · About Me I founded Innovate Educate Ltd to make a difference in how organisations engage with young people and communities. Over the last 24 years, I’ve had the privilege of work...

30/08/2024

The Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival begins in two weeks!! Make sure to get your tickets for this brilliant event returning on 13-15 September. Expect a vibrant programme of performances, open mics, workshops, theatre, typewriter busking, and so much more! All with the stunning backdrop of the Yorkshire Dales. Some people think poetry isn’t for them — we’re here to prove them wrong.

Headliners include:
✨ Cumbria's own Northern Writers' Award winning Amelia Loulli
✨ Hartlepool's multi-award winning comedy writer Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin
✨ Bolton and Salford Archdeacon Rachel Mann
✨ Fire-breathing Elizabeth Train-Brown
✨ Birmingham's form-dismantling, grammar-trashing Ray
✨ Bradford's foremost poetry campaigner Sharena Lee Satti
✨ Viral activist and Q***r parent Hazel Mehmet
✨ Multi-slam winning Caz Teague.

Grab your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/kirkby-lonsdale-poetry-festival-2024-493169. See you there!

17/08/2024

This is an exciting time for culture in North Yorkshire. The recent creation of the new Mayoral Combined Authority brings new opportunities for skills and sector development, whilst recent Arts Council Priority Place investment in Selby, Tadcaster and Sherburn, and Scarborough’s Town Deals programme and Long-Term Plan for Towns funding provide even more opportunities for community-led development of where we live, work and play in North Yorkshire.
Culture and creativity is woven throughout these opportunities. Culture gives us the opportunity to enrich lives, increase health and wellbeing, support skills and employment development, and be the catalyst for regeneration.
This is your chance to tell us what you want to see for culture in North Yorkshire. Closing date is Thursday 15 August 2024.
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Five questions to help us consult on development of a new cultural strategy for North Yorkshire.
Please follow the link in our bio to answer these questions.
Should you wish to receive a paper copy, we can post one out with a Freepost return envelope.
Please contact any of these venues:
Skipton Town Hall,
Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
North Yorkshire Archives, Northallerton

05/02/2024

The Artery brings creatives and businesses together. Our creative offer to businesses focuses on five main areas:

- Strategic Direction
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Creative Upskilling
- True Community engagement

If this sounds like something your business needs and you want to find out more, get in touch at https://www.ieltd.co.uk/

Photo taken by Juliet Klottrup.

03/02/2024

We asked what the existing group gets out of The Artery. They told us:

- Energy and enthusiasm
- Inspiration/Ideas
- Personal growth (in business sense)
- New skills
- Time to focus on the business/Keeps me in check
- A sounding board
- Networking

If you feel like The Artery may be for you, get in touch at https://www.ieltd.co.uk/take-part/

Funded by York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub
Photo taken from The Artery.

01/02/2024

We love talking about The Artery and how it has helped develop creative’s businesses. We can now tell the stories of how it is helping big businesses to work on their business, much like we did at the last PechaKucha talk last November!

30/01/2024

Connect, collaborate, and elevate! Join our free Peer Support Network and be part of a community dedicated to empowering each other through knowledge exchange and unwavering business support.

Each place is funded by York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub.

Head to https://www.ieltd.co.uk/take-part/ to join now!

Photo taken at The Artery sessions.

30/11/2023

Creative business owners in Craven can now sign up for peer support in this new programme from Innovate Educate.

20/01/2023

For any young people starting out/developing their careers in the screen industries. Some great funding, bursary and training and mentoring opps. Training and access to equipment all free.
Screenskills training and mentoring: https://www.screenskills.com/your-career/mentoring/
Screen Yorkshire Crew Service: https://www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/.../screen-yorkshires.../
Equipment Hire:
https://xrstories.co.uk/for-businesses/equipment-hire/
Screenskills Bursaries:
https://www.screenskills.com/.../e1a40527-ea77-499f-a303.../
Film Hub North Funding
https://filmhubnorth.org.uk/fhn/bursary-awards

Need support to take part in a training course or attend an industry event? Apply for travel and ticket subsidies of up to £500 through our Bursary Fund.

18/11/2022

“I’ve looked forward to every session. I come away from it feeling lighter every time and even though I haven’t come away with ‘this is the thing I must do and click my fingers’, I come away feeling like I know where to go and I know what to do. It’s a long journey and I have what it takes. And I have other people and resources I can draw upon.”

Lauren has been a regular attendee at The Artery sessions and now has the knowledge and tools to help her business grow.

Find out more about what The Artery Peer Support Network can do for you at www.ieltd.co.uk/the-artery

16/11/2022

So looking forward to working with Virpi Kettu on this

The Artery is excited to announce they’re offering a peer support programme aimed at young people starting their freelance or creative careers in AR and Animation, with thanks to funding from Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN).

The programme, running on 8th, 15 and 22nd January, will help young people develop new or existing business ideas, provide support for those starting a freelance career and build a strong peer support network which could provide opportunity for collaboration in the future. The 12 participants will get leading insider knowledge from AR and Animation professional Virpi Kettu, Kettu Studios.

To register your interest in the programme, head over to www.ieltd.co.uk/the-artery

16/11/2022

The Artery is excited to announce they’re offering a peer support programme aimed at young people starting their freelance or creative careers in AR and Animation, with thanks to funding from Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN).

The programme, running on 8th, 15 and 22nd January, will help young people develop new or existing business ideas, provide support for those starting a freelance career and build a strong peer support network which could provide opportunity for collaboration in the future. The 12 participants will get leading insider knowledge from AR and Animation professional Virpi Kettu, Kettu Studios.

To register your interest in the programme, head over to www.ieltd.co.uk/the-artery