Business Link West Midlands

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Business Link West Midlands

• Lara Ratnaraja
• Sector Development Director
• Creative Cultural and Digital

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Creative Cultural and Digital

• through
• Alignment of business support with creative and
  cultural sub regional strategy
• Partnerships with a diverse range of creative
  agencies / support organisations such as
• Renaissance in the Region (Museums)
• Museums Development Steering Group
• Renaissance/LSC/Business Link event
• Director Development, Business Support,
  Leadership and Management, Train To Gain

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Creative Cultural and Digital

• Arts Council England West Midlands
• Regularly Funded Organisations
• ACEWM/LSC/Business Link Event
• Director Development, Business Support,
  Leadership and Management, Train To Gain, Skills
• Visual Arts Strategy
• Business support and Grants for the Arts
• Local authority arts development officers
• Creative Clinics- Malvern, Kidderminster,
  Shropshire

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Creative Cultural and Digital

• Sector Skills Council (Skillset, Creative and
  Cultural Sector Skills Council)- Creative
  Apprenticeships Frameworks
• North Stoke Cultural Economic Forum alignment
  of business support with creative and cultural
  sub regional strategy and Ceramics Biennial
• Development of business support aligned with
  Cultural Olympiad and Artists Taking the Lead

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Creative Cultural and Digital

• AWM/Screen WM/Channel 4- 4IP/Digital Media
  Investment Readiness
• Joint events- Investment Roadshows Birmingham,
  Coventry and Wolverhampton
• Screen WM/Channel 4 4IP/Advantage Proof of
  Concept/ Innovation Networks/Innovation
  Vouchers/ACEWM Digital Content Development/Unltd
• Screen WM, RTS Advertising Funded Production TV
  Event
• AWM/Screen WM/Channel 4IP- Business support-
  Yoosk, Help Me investigate, Talk About Local

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Creative Cultural and Digital

• AWM/BCC/Screen WM, Arts Council England WM,
  Digital Birmingham Hello Digital Conference
• The Drum, Marketing Birmingham Marketing Industry
  Network
• Flip Animation Festival
• Arts and Business Visual clinics
• Creative Alliance Creative Clinics
• Creative Republic Creative Clinics
• DCMS/BERR Beacons Project- Creative
  Britain-launched July 2009

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Business Link Client Journey

• Business Account Manager
• Business Adviser to provide integrated
  diagnostic- including organisational needs
  analysis and business review
• Referrals to new opportunities- 4IP, Proof of
  Concept, Access to Finance, Innovation, ITAS,
  Transformational, Diversification etc
• Referrals to Train to Gain eligible provision
• Referrals to Train to Gain (Director Development)
  eligible Leadership and Management Provision

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Partners and Schemes

• Screen WM 4IP/Events/Film http//www.screenwm.co.
  uk
• Skillset http//www.skillset.org/uk/westmids
• Creative and Cultural Skills http//www.ccskills.
  org.uk
• Arts Council England Digital Content Development
  http//www.artscouncil.org.uk
• Renaissance WM http//www.renaissancewestmidlands
  .org.uk

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Partners and Schemes

• Hello Digital http//www.hellodigital.net/
• Advantage Proof of Concept www.advantageproofofco
  ncept.co.uk
• Innovations Network www.2wm.co.uk/innovation-netw
  orks
• Innovations Vouchers www.indexvouchers.org
• Unltd www.unltd.org.uk

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Business Link West MidlandsTel 0845 113
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