Department for Culture Media and Sport
creative economy programme
Latest news
- 27 July 2009: Ben Bradshaw MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport launches the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards. The awards target emerging economies of China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey.
- 21 July 2009: Creative Beacons National Good Practice Guide. The guide aims to raise awareness of the good practice of creative business support that exists in Business Links across English regions. Its publication sees the achievement of Creative Britain’s commitment 13 PDF (143kb)
- 9 July 2009: Launch of Investing in Creative Industries, a guide to investment in the creative industries produced by Work Foundation for the Local Government Association. The publication meets commitment 20 in Creative Britain to develop a menu for local infrastructure.
What is the Creative Economy Programme?
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport established the Creative Economy Programme (CEP) in 2005 to develop and implement a Government strategy for the creative industries.
This strategy was launched in February 2008 and published as Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy. It contains 26 commitments aiming to bring the Creative Industries from the margins to the mainstream of the UK economy.
The CEP is now implementing the Creative Britain strategy in partnership with Department of Businesses Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR), Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and a wide range of other organisations.
Follow the progress on implementing the strategy on our Creative Britain channel.
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