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CIBAS South East (Creative Industries Business Advisory Service)

“CIBAS put ‘me’ at the centre of my business and my practice” (CIBAS client, BOP Evaluation, March 2007)

The creative industries are now globally recognised as important to local, regional and national economic development and competitiveness. So, we need to support the growth of the sector both subsidised and commercial by providing appropriate and tailored business advice.

The CIBAS project was created to by Arts Council England, in partnership with Business Link in 2003 to provide bespoke business support services and networking opportunities to creative practitioners to fulfil this need.

CIBAS South East has been developed from the perspective of what it is to be an artist and deals with specific issues that arise from artistic and creative practice. The creative business advisors develop training days, seminars and networking events based on the needs of the artists and small arts businesses that use the service.

The service now operates in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire

To find out more about current CIBAS activities and related projects please follow the links on this page.

Also available is the Creative Industries Business Support review. This review presents what Arts Council England, South East has learned through the initiation and support of the development of creative industries business support programmes over the last four years. You can download this publication here

Contact us cibas@artscouncil.org.uk

    Natalie Dowse - Visual Artist. Photo – David Fisher. “CIBAS is rare in that it is targeted towards cultural practices and understands the particular needs of those working in the arts”
    Natalie Dowse - Visual Artist. Photo – David Fisher. “CIBAS is rare in that it is targeted towards cultural practices and understands the particular needs of those working in the arts”
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