Re:Create GrowthCamp
A 12-week business transformation programme for creative founders ready to grow.
Build your creative business
If you’re running a creative business with 1–4 people, the experience may feel familiar: moving from project to project, chasing the next commission, and rarely having the time or space to focus on building a sustainable business.
Re:Create GrowthCamp is designed to change that.
This isn’t generic business advice.
Built specifically for small but ambitious creative businesses, this intensive 12 week programme combines expert-led sessions with dedicated 1-to-1 mentorship from experienced creative industry business advisors.
It’s practical growth support designed by creative industry experts, for creative founders based on a model that works.
What is Re:Create GrowthCamp?
Based on the tried and tested Re:Create programme, which has already supported over 200 creative businesses, GrowthCamp is a structured, intensive 12 week programme designed to help creative entrepreneurs:
- Clarify your business model and growth strategy
- Strengthen cashflow and financial planning
- Build effective marketing and visibility
- Develop digital and operational systems
- Build the confidence to scale your creative work sustainably
In-person events
and workshops
Access to in-person events and workshops in central London and online, designed to give you the tools to grow your business and achieve commercial success. The sessions will follow the themes:
Strategic planning for creative impact, financial resilience and growth
Making sales, not selling out: increasing income through better sales
Sustaining, maintaining and growing your team
Building on your founder foundations: keeping creative and growing as a business leader
Mentorship from
expert business advisors
Get XX hours of 1-2-1 mentorship from expert business advisors with lived creative industry experience. Practical, experienced and hands-on advice tailored to your specific business needs. Network and forge connections with other founders and creatives.
Who is it for?
Re:Create GrowthCamp is tailored uniquely for business founders in the creative industries with ambition to grow. Any and all creative enterprises from fashion and architecture to film and graphic design.
If you want to move beyond surviving project to project and build a more sustainable, resilient company, then Re:Create GrowthCamp has been designed for you. It is particularly suited to creative entrepreneurs facing challenges around growth strategy, cashflow, marketing, and capacity, and who want practical business support that understands the realities of the creative industries. The programme is ideal for those ready to strengthen their business foundations with guidance from experienced creative industry advisors and a supportive peer cohort.
How much does it cost?
The first GrowthCamps will run for 12 weeks from June (cohort 1) and September (cohort 2).
We’re offering early adopters the chance to help us test and refine the programme at a 75% discounted rate of £500 +VAT.
Spaces are limited and we expect high demand. Register your interest today.
How do I apply?
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How do I know Re:Create
will help my business?
One of the great things about Re:Create has been access to business mentoring with a mentor that has a background in heritage and arts businesses. Weaving in your creative plans with your business plan in terms of finances, marketing and other collaborative community networking was really helpful
The programme offered exactly what I was looking for; personalised mentoring with experienced business coaches who understand the creative industries, on-demand e-learning packed with practical business skills designed specifically for creatives, and the chance to meet and collaborate in-person with other local creative entrepreneurs and artists. I’m so grateful for the way that Re:Create has had such a tangible impact on my journey
I feel more confident in defining my creative practice between my industry work and creative work. Having ongoing mentorship kept me motivated and on my feet, with more accountability and yearning to keep on track with my goals.
The big change [in the business] is about financial planning, confidence and understanding. I was really flying blind before this programme, but Stuart provided me with insights, a clear understanding and some very useful tools to help me get to grips with the company’s finances, understand where I currently stand and plan for the next year and future years.
FAQs
Who runs Re:Create GrowthCamp?
Re:Create is a programme developed and delivered by entrepreneurial Community Interest Company Creative United. Our mission is to support creative livelihoods across the cultural and creative industries. With the support of public funding, we provide a range of programmes and business services that enable the development and sustainability of organisations, enterprises and individual artists and makers operating within these sectors.
Re:Create was first developed as a Business Support Programme in partnership with with Wandsworth Borough Council in 2021, and has since expanded to across 4 London Boroughs to support 200+ creative businesses across the city, increasing estimated income, skills and business confidence. Re:Create GrowthCamp is the next evolution of the programme bringing valuable knowledge, development and mentorship to the nano businesses in the creative sector that need it the most. For more information on the development of the programme, see the Creative United website [link to report news story]
I’m a freelancer, is Re:Create GrowthCamp right for me? Are there any discounts available?
The full cost of Re:Create GrowthCamp is £2,200+VAT. We’re offering the first two programme cohorts the chance to help us test and refine the programme at a 75% discounted rate of £500 +VAT.
Can I take part in Re:Create GrowthCamp if my business is not based in London?
Whilst the in-person workshops and networking sessions at the core of the programme will take place in central London, it is not a requirement for application that businesses are based in the region. Please consider the travel required to participate when deciding if Re:Create GrowthCamp is right for you.
Do I need to run a creative business to take part?
Whilst the in-person workshops and networking sessions at the core of the programme will take place in central London, it is not a requirement for application that businesses are based in the region. Please consider the travel required to participate when deciding if Re:Create GrowthCamp is right for you.
Where can I learn more about past iterations of Re:Create?
You can find out more about the history of the Re:Create programme and hear from past participants of the scheme on the Creative United website.