Creatives Mean Business Project Coordination

Creatives Mean Business,led by Creative Cardiff,is designed toempower,connectand upskillour region’s creativeworkforcewith targeted business interventions, including a suite of workshops,resources and mentoring.

Through targeted support, collaborativelearningand network development, this project will:

• build core business capabilities
• inspire innovative thinking

Shaped around Creative Cardiff’s extensive community, this programme will support creativeworkersfrom a range of sectors and levels of experience,fromestablishingthemselves as freelancers, to scaling up their enterprises. The programme will offer support, mentoring,workshops and guidance to three keygroups:

• Students,graduatesand early careercreatives;
• Mid-career creative freelancers and small businesses(largely microenterprises);
• Scale up guidance for medium-sized andestablishedcreative businesses and freelancers.

In Wales, 6% of all businessesarein the creative economyandthe creative industrieshavea turnover of £ the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR),1 in 6 jobsarecreativeand thislargeworkforce(31,500 employees) makes asignificant contribution to both theeconomy, and to thenation’ssocial and cultural wellbeing.

This workforceisalmost entirelymade up of SMEs and freelancers, and as such,can becomplex in its requirements for businessupskilling,development and scaling abilities– one size does not fit all.

Creatives Mean Business will build on the foundations of Creative Cardiff’s existing community, offering a focused and impactful route to enterprise and sustainable growth. By embedding entrepreneurial thinking and creating stronger links with academic and business resources, the project aims to generate long-term value for participants and the wider creative economyin the region.

Creative Cardiffisnowseekingto engage with a Freelance Project Coordinator toassistwithdeveloping,programming and scheduling our Creatives Mean Business activity.

Most of this programming and coordination work will be delivered in spring 2026, with some wrap up activity at the end of 2026.

A totalmaximumbudget of £5000 is available for this work.

The programmewillinclude 6 x workshops throughout 2026, mentoring sessions, resourcesharingand an end of pilot project wrap-up event.

Key activities include:

• Usingyour networks and knowledge toidentifyand bookworkshopspeakers
• Usingyour networks and knowledge toidentifyand bookmentors
• Assisting the Creative Cardiff Team with scheduling these sessions,booking spacesand catering
• Coordinatinga process to recruit project participants
• Helping tocreate a sense of community within our Creatives Mean Business cohorts
• Monitoring and evaluation activity

Workshop topicscould include:

• business planning and strategy
• finance and funding
• marketing,brandingand digital content
• navigating freelance and portfolio careers
• pitching,presenting and building a network

We are keen to receiveapplicationsfrom freelance individuals with the following experience and expertise:

• Significant knowledge of individuals and organisations who offer business support, preferably in the creative industries.
• Previous experience of working with creative sector businesses and organisations and creative freelancers.
• An understanding of the Cardiff Capital Region and the specific challenges and opportunities of delivering work within this context.
• Evidence of having built successful, mutually beneficial relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Collaborative and adaptable to fast-paced work.
• Experience of working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a shared aim.
• The ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

With all our activity, we are keen to reach a wide pool of creatives to ensure we hear the best ideas. We recognise the importance of ensuring our engagement is representative of our wider community in its social and cultural diversity. We also hope to inspire transformative and inclusive lines of engagement that will challenge existing ways of thinking.

The specific working arrangements for delivery of this activity are to bedeterminedby the individual in consultation with local delivery teams, subject to meeting the…