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What’s your greatest need right now? What would help you the most in your work or practice? We’re putting plans in place to help strengthen Lancashire’s creative industries and unlock the growth potential of our cultural, creative and digital sectors.
Lancashire is bidding to become UK City of Culture in 2025. Applications are now open for 4 new team roles for this exciting programme. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to play your part in changing Lancashire forever. The deadline to apply is 30th October 2020.
Reboot 2020 is a new free digital forum, running from 14th to 16th October. Digital Lancashire is hosting a series of seminars, sessions and roundtables featuring key Lancashire businesses and is designed to reimagine the future of digital in Lancashire.
AMRC, Miralis and Digital Catapult are part of the 5G Factory of the Future programme giving manufacturing and industrial businesses in the North West a boost with the announcement of almost £10 million public/private investment in an open access 5G industrial testbed.
Design In An Age Of Crisis is a global open call from Chatham House and London Design Biennale, inviting radical design thinking from the world’s design community, the public and young people. They have extended the call for submissions, specifically from young people, until 31st October 2020.
Our latest Conversations in Creativity took place in August 2020, with John Robb of (Louder Than War) interviewing Holly Ross, of the Lancaster-based punk band, The Lovely Eggs.
In Situ has announced two exciting new short artists residencies for Lancashire-based artists as part of The Gatherings programme. Deadline for applications is 4th October 2020.
Create Britain is a new online platform designed as an alternative to Google and LinkedIn, and aims to help makers and creaters promote their work locally, nationally and internationally. You can create a profile for free.
The research team at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), have teamed up with Creative Lancashire, Digital Lancashire and Arts Lancashire to understand the size and scope of Lancashire’s Creative Industries, assess the impact of COVID-19 and find out how place based approaches and creative clusters can support the economic development of Lancashire’s Creative and Digital sectors.
Festival UK* 2022 is a major nationwide festival showcasing the UK’s creativity and innovation to the world. Festival UK* 2022 is inviting expressions of interest from Creative Teams for a funded R&D project to create compelling, ambitious and jaw-dropping public engagement acts on a global scale.
The Kickstart Scheme from HM Government is a new £2 billion fund to create high quality, 6-month work placements for 16-24 year olds, who are at risk of long-term unemployment. Local Chambers of Commerce are working alongside the British Chambers of Commerce as intermediaries in coordinating business responses.
NW Lancs-based PR firm, Catapult PR, has won three awards in the course of a week, becoming a double winner at the prestigious PRCA DARE Awards North and also being named the North England Prestige Awards’ ‘Public Relations Firm of the Year’ for Lancashire and Northern England.
Museum Freelance have launched a grant fund to provide emergency support for freelancers who work with museums, heritage sites, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK. The ambition is to provide short-term relief to freelancers whose income has been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), have produced information about the various funding streams available as part of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. As part of the biggest ever one-off investment in UK culture, the #HereForCulture campaign has been launched to help support Britain’s globally renowned arts, culture and heritage industries.
Lancashire businesses can apply for grants of between £1,000 – £3,000 to help them access new technology and other equipment to help them adapt, recover and rebuild. The support will also extend to professional, legal, financial or other advice. Support will be fully funded by the government from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
