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Creative businesses and freelancers in West Yorkshire are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment.

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00:00Creative businesses and freelancers in West Yorkshire are in line for major government
00:05support to help them innovate, upskill and attract private investment.
00:09The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is one of six UK regions with strengths in creative
00:14industries to have been awarded £25 million as part of the government's Creative Places
00:19Growth Fund. This funding will grow the already booming creative industries of West Yorkshire,
00:25including film and TV, music, video games and fashion production.
00:29The fund was announced in the Creative Industries Sector Plan in June as part of the Industrial
00:34Strategy, where the government shared their intention to invest £150 million in the creative industries
00:40of six regions outside of London, including Leeds and West Yorkshire. The fund will empower local
00:46mayors to support creative professionals, businesses and young people in their communities, with access
00:52to finance, mentoring and networking opportunities to help them connect with investors and skills
00:57programmes. This is part of a range of support announced in the creative industries sector
01:02plan, supporting creative growth across the country, including providing business support
01:07for local creative businesses, regional skills initiatives, innovation capacity building programmes,
01:13or by providing specific sector support such as TV and film production funds.
01:19Separately, the government has also announced that more than 100 micro-, small- and medium-sized
01:24creative enterprises across 12 regions, including in West Yorkshire, are receiving a share of £8
01:29million in grants through the Create Growth programme. The grants range from £20,000 to £140,000 and are
01:37aimed at helping high-growth businesses commercialise their ideas and access resources, knowledge and private
01:42investment to scale up.
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