Creative Industry Finance Information

Creative Industry Finance is an Arts Council England funded initiative offering business development support and access to finance for creative industry enterprises. The programme is operated by Creative United, a Community Interest Company established to provide support to cultural and creative businesses. Creative Industry Finance offers tailored advice with a focus on supporting businesses through the process of applying to one of our lending partners for a business development loan. Creative Industry Finance’s lending partners are Big Issue Invest, Community Development Finance Association (CDFA), East London Small Business Centre, Fredericks Foundation, Hitachi Capital (UK) plc, Key Fund and Triodos Bank. During our two year pilot programme, we supported more than 400 creative enterprises with over 1900 hours of free one-to-one business support, and provided £876,000 in loan finance. We also helped lever a further £540,000 in loan finance from alternative sources. For more information, please visit www.creativeindustryfinance.org.uk