Britain's music industry contributed £4.1bn to the UK economy in 2014, helped along by the global success of stars such as Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith – the voice behind the song for new James Bond film Spectre.
More than three million Brits are set to get creative during the festive period and sell handmade goods for Christmas, which is set to generate sales of £376m.
The MOBO Organisation, which was launched by Kanya King in 1996 to promote musical diversity, has introduced a new Fellowship programme to encourage more opportunities for talent from diverse backgrounds across the creative industries with mentoring and more.
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London mayor Boris Johnson has invested £285,000 into 20 community projects that capture the “creativity and enterprise of Londoners”, including a campaign to transform an old Peckham railway into a park.
Specialist retailer Majestic Wine’s announcement earlier this week that it was launching a “Text for Wine” service through its Naked Wines online service should be cheered for a couple of reasons.
There is, of course, no way of guaranteeing that a funding application will be successful, but there are a number of strategies that you could adopt to help improve your chances of success.
The UK's creative industry is booming as Pinewood, the studio where latest James Bond film Spectre and Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron were filmed, is “unable to meet all the demand from large films”.
Crowdfunding, the increasingly popular alternative finance model, continues to support all business sectors. The latest demonstration of this has seen independent filmmaker Sarah Lewis harness the channel to make a movie on Soho-based hair salon We Are Cuts, famed for styling stars including David Bowie.
