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Creative Business Hub Newport

The Creative Business Hub Newport is managed by Newport City Council in partnership with University of South Wales Startup Stiwdio and delivered in collaboration with other creative organisations in Newport such as Newport Live, Riverfront Theatre and Arts Centre.

The Creative Business Hub Newport’s focus is to build a bigger arts and creative industries cluster in Newport through targeted business and startup support and a range of networking events to increase collaboration and innovation between creative individuals and businesses across the City.

We will work with our partners across the region to renew creative links to the city’s hinterland, interacting with others across the Cardiff City Region and beyond.

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We are aiming to establish a strong Creative Hub focused on Newport, which is Wales’ youngest and fastest growing city. It will also tap the creative talents of freelancers and companies in Caerphilly, Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent. These counties saw the first and second highest rise in the proportion of people (16+) now in employment in the 2021 Census, in Blaenau Gwent and Newport. Newport City Council’s (NCC) cluster will aim to engage with creative industries companies, freelancers and associated support agencies across the region.

Newport is a key destination for many of the people and communities living in the Gwent valleys. The city also boasts a strong and diverse independent arts and creative industries sector. We are confident that this Hub will not only quickly grow and identify new members, but that it will help Newport regenerate its arts and entertainment sectors to engage and participate in a wide variety of arts and cultural events devised, created and delivered by local creative entrepreneurs.

We aim to develop a Hub-wide database and marketing activities to help the creative sector in Newport promote itself more widely and devise a plan for future ongoing sector development, alongside the key creative organisations already in the City.

This will help develop a new creative vision for the city centre and support Newport City Council’s with its commitment to develop an overarching Cultural Strategy for the city over the next few years.

Networking with new contacts in the area
New insights from established professionals
New funding opportunities
Sparking new ideas
Startup support from University of South Wales’s Startup Stiwdio in its Newport campus
Set up new collaborations and projects
Engage with new communities
Broaden your knowledge base

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If you have any questions, please email : stiwdio@southwales.ac.uk with the subject “Creative Business Hub Newport.” We can stay in touch as the Creative Cluster develops.

CICH is offering eight weeks of Creative Entrepreneurship Training sessions during October and November 2023, including financial support to help you attend the training sessions, covering the following areas:

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Creative Business Hub Newport

Creative Industries Cluster Hubs is a multi-stakeholder project led by Cardiff University’s Centre for the Creative Economy. It works in partnership with local authorities across the Cardiff Capital Region to convene grassroots creative networks and activity.

This programme is currently closed. If you are interested in updates or similar projects, please email stiwdio@southwales.ac.uk for an informal discussion.

From September to December, The Creative Business Hub is supporting free events at key venues in around Newport. These sessions are aimed at creative entrepreneurs, creative freelancers and companies:

If you’d like to join our Creative Cluster please sign up here

Do you have a creative business idea or run an early stage creative business (as a freelancer or a company)? Would you like to apply to join our creative business development programme?

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