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About
The Creative Industries Council

The Creative Industries Council (CIC) is a forum of government, creative businesses and other creative organisations.

It focuses on areas where there are barriers to growth of UK creative sectors such as access to finance, skills, export markets, regulation, intellectual property (IP) and infrastructure, and on promoting opportunities such as the CreaTech category and greater diversity and inclusion.

Action is taken forward by means of a small number of working groups and initiatives. In 2018, the CIC also set up the Creative Industries Trade & Investment Board (CITIB) to spearhead efforts on exports and inward investment.

Contact

Carlos Grande

Editor, www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk

info@thecreativeindustries.co.uk
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After the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020 knocking the creative industries off their growth trajectory, the industry members of the CIC submitted a proposed transition and recovery plan to Government.

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CIC Membership

Council members are leading figureheads drawn from across the creative and digital industries including TV, computer games, fashion, music, arts, publishing, and film.

Currently the council is co-chaired by:

Sir Peter Bazalgette

Industry Co-Chair

Francesca Hegyi OBE

Deputy Industry Co-Chair

Culture Secretary Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP

Govt Co-Chair

Business and Trade Secretary Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP

Govt Co-Chair

CIC working group chairs & CITIB

Education and Skills

Stephen Page

Chair, Faber & Faber

technical education

Neil Hatton

CEO of UK Screen Alliance

IP

Dan Guthrie

DG, Alliance for IP

R&D and Innovation

Dr Jeremy Silver

CEO, Digital Catapult

Diversity & Inclusion

John McVay OBE

CEO, Pact

CITIB

Caroline Rush CBE

CEO, British Fashion Council

Technical

Hasan Bakhshi MBE

Centre Director, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC)

GROWTH

Caroline Norbury MBE & Francesca Hegyi OBE (Co-Chairs)

CEO, Creative UK; Executive Director, Edinburgh International Festival

GOOD WORK REVIEW

Ben Roberts & Sara Whybrew (Co-Chairs)

CEO, BFI; Director, Skills & Workforce Development, BFI

CLIMATE

Alison Tickell & Minnie Moll (Co-Chairs)

Founder & CEO, Julie's Bicycle; CEO, Design Council

PLACE FORUM

Francesca Hegyi OBE

Executive Director, Edinburgh International Festival

HEALTH AND WELLBEING FORUM

Darren Henley CBE

CEO, Arts Council England

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Work of the CIC

Following negotiations with industry led by the CIC, the UK government published a Creative Industries Sector Vision in June 2023.

It aims to add £50bn of Gross Value Added (GVA) and support 1m extra jobs in the UK creative industries by 2030.

Creative Climate Charter

Industry CIC members have endorsed a Charter of principles on the climate and biodiversity crisis.

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Creative Industries Sector Vision (2023)

A long-term creative industries plan developed by government and industry to support economic growth, jobs and talent.

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CREATECH

COVID-19 Recovery

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the industry members of the CIC submitted a proposed transition and recovery plan to Government.

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CREATECH

CITIB

The creation of the Creative Industries Trade & Investment Board

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CREATECH

Diversity Charter

The publication of the Diversity Charter to drive greater diversity across the UK’s creative industries

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CREATECH

Creative Clusters

The launch of a new Creative Clusters programme.

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FUNDING
CREATECH

Policy and Evidence Centre

The launch of a new policy and evidence centre.

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FUNDING
CREATECH

Progress Update

The publication of the Diversity Charter Progress Update

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CREATECH

Supporting Local Economies

Funding announcements to support local creative economies.

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FUNDING
CREATECH

Creative Careers Programme

The establishment of a Creative Careers Programme to raise awareness of working opportunities for young people.

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FUNDING
CREATECH

Immersive Technology

Funding for Immersive Technology, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

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CREATECH

Artificial Intelligence

Funding for AI Masters courses and work-based placements.

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CREATECH

CreaTech

The CIC also supports initiatives to raise the profile of the emerging CreaTech category where creativity meets technology.

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CREATECH

CIC Announcements

December 18, 2024

RSC Chair to lead CIC from summer 2025

Baroness Shriti Vadera has been appointed by the Culture Secretary as the new co-chair of the Creative Industries Council.

November 20, 2024

CIC Place Forum Event Transcripts

A record is now available of the most recent in a series of free CIC Place Forum events.

August 6, 2024

Critical new survey into creative funding and finance

New research aims to shed light on how creative organisations use finance and funding as they grow.

June 24, 2024

Organisations share insights on local creative businesses at CIC Place Forum

Voices from local government, policy-makers and other experts exchanged their experiences of local creative industries.

Archive Resources

August 2, 2018

Agenda for Growth Submission to Govt (2018)

November 3, 2017

What MPs Think About The Creative Industries

July 5, 2016

Create Together: A Five-Year Growth Strategy (2016-2010) from the CIC

March 9, 2015

Create UK Strategy Report (2015 Update)

March 4, 2014

Create UK Strategy Report (2014)

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