Consultancy Services - Creative Industries Evidence Review and Action Plan

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£25,000

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  • Research and development consultancy services

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  • tender

Submission Deadline

2 years ago

Published

2 years ago

Description

The CIoS Local Enterprise Partnership's Creative Industry Sector Body , is seeking the services of a consultant to undertake this work, which includes the following three phases:   • Phase 1: Data review  To identify the baseline data. This will include the identification of the existing infrastructure and latest available evidence on the size and scale of the creative and cultural sectors in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and to conduct a desk-based review of recently commissioned reports and their recommendations for action.   • Phase 2: Consultation and comparator area review  To undertake a light-touch consultation exercise with local civic leaders, businesses and organisations operating in the creative and cultural sectors and to provide a high-level review of comparator areas. This will include, where possible, an assessment of how other universities have maximised their role as local anchor institutions, rooted in the local community, to support creative and cultural sector businesses in their regions.   • Phase 3: Action plan   To work with the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly's Creative Industries Sector Body to develop an Action Plan that clearly sets out an ambitious pathway to sustainable economic growth for Cornwall's creative and cultural sectors. The Action Plan will provide the Creative Industry Sector Body with a call to action and route to achieving greater opportunity, access, infrastructure, and investment in our cultural and creative industries. It will support Falmouth University and the University of Exeter to use their world-leading research in creative disciplines to generate impact with creative and cultural industry businesses and drive the resulting social, economic, and environmental benefits.    The Action Plan will also be used as a framework to influence future local and national Government decision and policy making on what rural, semi-rural and coastal areas, like Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, need to increase resilience and maxim

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