Creative England has launched Industry Equals: Women in Screen to celebrate and highlight female leaders delivering innovative work in the creative industries, create future opportunities for business growth and for the participants to build meaningful connections and a network of support during and beyond the programme.
Industry Equals: Women in Screen will provide intensive leadership coaching with high-profile voices from across the creative industries over a three-day retreat and receive three subsequent mentoring sessions with key industry figures over a period of three months.
The programme will bring together ten female leaders based in the English regions outside of London who are working in storytelling for moving image across Film, TV, Games and Digital who will soon be looking to scale their business.
Applications will close at midnight 12:00am on Sunday 3rd November.
The leadership retreat will take place over three days in November in Warwick. Food and accommodation costs are covered by the Creative Enterprise programme.
14:00 – Arrival
14:30 – Female Entrepreneurship in the UK, Welcome from Caroline Norbury MBE (CEO of Creative England)
Caroline will welcome all delegates and introduce the Industry Equals: Women in Screen initiative.
15:00 – Leading by Example – In Conversation with Kanya King CBE (Founder MOBOs)
Internationally renowned entrepreneur Kanya King CBE will be discussing her incredible journey in establishing the iconic MOBO platform.
17:00 – Free time
18:30 – Dinner & networking
09:00 – Establishing Your Company Culture – Chris Burns (Head of Audio and Digital at BBC England)
Chris will be giving her insight into what it takes to build and lead large, industry defining teams through her role at the BBC.
12:30 – Lunch
13:30 – Finding Your Voice and Making an Impact – Sandra Collins (Director at Hayes Collins Media)
Learn crucial skills on being the face of your company and practice your skills in presenting and handling media.
17:00 – Free time
18:30 – Dinner & networking
09:00 – Winning Investment – Caroline Percy (Senior Portfolio Manager at Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund)
Caroline will be sharing her insights into how to best package and pitch your screen business for investment.
11:00 –Back Her Business – Anna Gordon (Coach at Crowdfunder)
Back Her Business is a joint initiative supporting female entrepreneurs, launched by the Royal Bank of Scotland, in partnership with Crowdfunder. Learn how they’ll be looking to support 400,000 female lead businesses in the UK by 2025.
12:30 – Meet the Mentors, Lunch and networking
Following the bootcamp, each delegate will have access to their own personal mentor for three sessions over three months. This is an opportunity to meet some of the mentors and identify areas of support for your business.
14:00 – End
Creative Enterprise has been developed with National Lottery funding from the BFI, to make the moving image sector sustainable through creating new business opportunities through training and building of networks, whilst growing and scaling existing businesses.