The Rise of the Creative Rural Sector
Proposals for a Rural (CI) Cultural Development Fund
Optimising the creative rural sector’s c. £2 billion p.a. contributions to the Government’s industrial strategy – creative industries sector deal; promoting new rural CI research and innovative culture-led creative urban and rural business partnerships; making the business case
A Whitehall Creative Rural Industries Policy and Research focus seminar:
Co-hosted by the UK Rural Business Group, UK Research Council/AHRC the University of Westminster, CRIC – Creative Rural Industries Consortium, and Littoral Arts Trust.
Monday 16th September 2019
- The St Matthews Conference Centre, 20 Gt Peter Street, Westminster, SW1P 2BU
CRIC Seminar programme:
(NB by invitation only)
“We now have an historic opportunity to harness the economic potential of all our rural communities. The creative sector has a significant contribution to make. I therefore welcome any initiative by the sector itself to identify ways in which it can stimulate this”*
RT. HON. ANDREA LEADSOM, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (BEIS); *STATEMENT MADE AS FORMER DEFRA SECRETARY OF STATE