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Collaborative Spaces
Leeds City Region
COLLABORATIVE
SPACES
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Leeds City Region As the growth of our digital and creative sector accelerates, we speak to diverse, thriving businesses across the Leeds City Region for their perspectives on why it is the place to start up, scale-up collaborate and grow. 2 Investleedscityregion.com/#WELCOME
Collaborative Spaces
The rise of
collaborative spaces
Over the last 10 years, the Leeds look at our two homegrown tech nesses are changing, especially
City Region has come into its own. unicorns* to see it’s true. They came when it comes to their workspaces.
from nothing and now they’re worth They want more flexibility, which is
Already a financial and legal centre, more than £1 billion. why we’ve seen a sudden influx of
it’s evolved into a thriving creative co-working spaces. In an unpredict-
and tech hub, attracting some of And it’s not just tech. The creative able world, they allow businesses to
the biggest names in the industry. In and cultural industries are just as grow and shrink on demand. But it’s
fact, 19 of the fastest growing tech important. It’s one of the fastest more than that. They bring people
businesses in the North are based growing sectors in the UK and it has together, they feed collaboration
here. a massive impact on our economy, and explore the possibilities that
but it also defines what the region technology presents, in business, in
Why? It’s the people, it’s the wel- feels like and makes it a better place art and in life.
come, it’s the hospitality. It’s how to work and live.
easy it is to network and how willing
people are to get behind you. In es- Of course, the two industries aren’t
sence, it’s the community – and ours mutually exclusive. Technology is
is incredibly diverse. part of the very fabric of our culture
and creativity is at the heart of every
There’s a real appetite to make new tech innovation.
things happen here, so if you show
commitment, if you put the work in, With that in mind, it’ll come as no
anything’s possible. You need only surprise that the needs of busi-
“Channel 4’s new National
HQ in Leeds is a massive
vote of confidence in
the region. It’s a ground-
breaking institution that
has already started to
stimulate growth”
Nicola Greenan, Director of East Street Arts and member of the Leeds
City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP).
*SkyBet , TransUnion (formerly Callcredit)
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Leeds City Region
A thriving ecosystem
Why do business in Leeds City Region?
• Bradford is the UK’s best city to start a business according to Barclays
• Leeds has seen over 26,000 new business start-ups 2012-2018 placing it #3 in the UK (Barclays SME
Growth Factor Index)
• Leeds voted as the best English city to set up a business in a co-working space (Rightmove)
• Leeds has the highest number or Scale up businesses outside of London (Scaleup index 2018)
• Leeds City Region has several exciting opportunities to locate creative and digital technology business in
transformative city centre developments including Leeds South Bank and York Central enabling a great
business environment and fast rail connectivity to the capital
Growth
• Our creative and digital
sector employs 102,000
people across 12,300
businesses - it has seen a
31 per cent growth over
Digital the last 6 years
Infrastructure • Leeds has the highest
amount of scale-up
digital companies
• Home to five Gigabit
outside the South East.
Cities – Bradford, Leeds,
It also boasts the highest
Huddersfield, Wakefield
and York benefiting from
number of telecoms, A digital and
media and technology
CityFibre’s ultra-fast full
sector jobs outside the creative hub
fibre infrastructure.
capital with over 25,000
• Leeds City Region is
• 99% broadband employees
the new home of UK
coverage by 2021
broadcaster Channel 4’s
• The UK’s first London national headquarters.
independent internet They join a thriving
exchange within the creative ecosystem of film
heart of Leeds makers, games designers
and digital agencies
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“Leeds is distinctively
ambitious, powered by
innovators, entrepreneurs
and social pioneers. There
is real momentum across
the city with the arrival this
year of a Barclays Eagle Lab
in the AvenueHQ coworking
space, NEXUS (the University
of Leeds Innovation Centre)
and Co>Space North, a space
for people passionate about
digitally enabled health and
care to connect, collaborate
and co-create.”
Eve Roodhouse, Chief Officer Economic Development, Leeds City Council
(Tech Nation 2019)
Leeds is home to the UK’s tallest piece of street art – the
iconic mural Athena Rising mural reaches more than
150ft (46m) from the ground on the revamped Platform
building redeveloped by Bruntwood to create a vibrant
tech hub next to Leeds Train station.
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True
North
Marshall’s Mill, Leeds.
There’s an attitude outside London
“
Channel 4’s decision to open their
that’s different, the world is viewed National HQ in Leeds is a clear
differently and I think it’s been really indicator that the city is on the up
helpful. Television can be quite and we’ve got this fantastic digital
monocular in the way it presents industry now with companies like
a country and I think coming from Sky and DAZN, it feels like a city
Leeds and the North of England has that is succeeding.
given us our own world view that’s
not necessarily going to be the same I would absolutely recommend it to
as they have in London. anyone thinking of setting up a busi-
ness or indeed moving an existing Creativity
Holbeck is really fit for purpose in
the 21st century, you’ve got lots of
business here. It’s a fantastic place
to grow a business. is about
really interesting, really creative
young businesses and that’s given
“Retaining talent is a really
conversations
the area a real buzz. You can feel
already that they’re going to trans- key thing for us” Andrew Sheldon, Creative
form the South Bank - this is going
to be a real hotspot for digital. The television sector is going to
grow in Leeds over the next few
years, without a doubt, so it’s really
“It’s a world class important to offer people a really
metropolis with the nice work space.
Yorkshire Dales on its
doorstep” We try to make sure people have a
good environment to work in and
It’s really nice for us as a 21st cen- the mill is very much part of that.
tury business to be in a building It’s nice, it’s light, the office space
that is a key part of Leeds’ industrial is good, and even though it’s a
heritage. It’s got that lovely North- piece of industrial heritage, it has a
ern brick feel about it. As a compa- modern feel about it. We’re only 5
ny, we’re called True North because minutes from the south entrance of
we make Northern programmes in the station, we can walk into town
the North of England, so being in a in about 10 minutes and that’s really
building that’s rooted in that idea is helpful.
really nice.
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Running
see traces of the industry that once
We’re all from different parts of the thrived in these rooms. Everything
country, but we were excited by the here is somewhat industrial, but it’s
in the
culture around digital and media art also modern and that’s exactly the
in Huddersfield. Being close to that kind of vibe we wanted to be work-
has influenced us greatly and helped ing in. It gives you the right mind-set
Halls
us think about our projects in a for a day’s work coding.
more imaginative, unusual way from
the start. The university keeps new And the prices are good. Working
blood flowing through the town, slightly outside of Leeds, somewhere
Bates Mill, Huddersfield
and although the vibe here is very like Huddersfield or Wakefield, gives
relaxed and laid back, you still feel you the benefit of being near a big
very much at the forefront of digital active hub, but with lower over-
development. heads. Ultimately in a business you’re
trying to make money, so keeping
Working in Bates Mill is amazing as costs down is a pretty big seller for
there are loads of tech companies starting up round these parts.
in a small location. You get to know
the faces, and who they are, and “We wanted to create a
who they work for, so it’s a great
way to form working partnerships unique digital company”
with people.
Running in the Halls is an interac-
tive design agency, with a focus on
“Everyone is feeling a bit websites, apps and games, though
of buzz since Channel 4 we also do one-off digital instal-
decided to move lations and experiences. We’ve
delivered a lot of exciting projects
here” from here, including making a world
record-breaking replica of Pac-Man
The space itself is amazing, we have and a dart-throwing robot con-
a fairly typical office, but it’s full of trolled by eye movement for Chan-
history and character. You can still nel 5’s The Gadget Show.
The office space is modern and
industrial, it’s exactly the kind of
space you’d associate with a young,
online company, so it gives the right
impression and puts clients at ease.
This works just as well for talent too,
modern, young, exciting and edgy,
our freelancers feel like their careers
are moving forward with the right
sort of company
“Huddersfield was an
obvious choice”
Alison Cox, Partner and Senior
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Limehouse TV
The Elsie Whiteley Innovation
Centre, Halifax “There’s an entrepreneurial
I started the business in 2007, spirit in the Leeds City
based out of an incubator in Leeds. Region”
We were predominantly creating
TV commercials, but the market There was such a positive
changed quite quickly, with web movement behind lobbying for
taking the place of traditional TV, Channel 4 to move to Leeds, and
so we found we were doing less quite a few of our agencies outside
content for television and more for of Leeds recognised the value
digital channels. That evolved into of them coming. The Leeds City
how we now use video as a channel Region is a really strong region, and
for businesses to communicate with while we’re a small town, we are
their employees. part of that family.
We moved to Halifax from Leeds Leeds as a city has been punching
in 2008. At that point we were above its weight for a long time
growing, I was trying to establish and that’s great, it kind of comes
the company, so I wanted to attract from having that Yorkshire grit, a
talent to a new fledgling business – lot of people want to do better, to
Halifax was ideal because we were raise the profile of the North, so it’s
slap bang in the middle of two big interesting and it’s exciting.
“
media centres, in Manchester and
Leeds.
“It’s a beautiful old mill
that’s been nicely restored”
We’ve been in The Elsie Whiteley
Innovation Centre for 11 years. “We get to live somewhere
Two mills were being renovated to
create a really cool place to work, beautiful and work
which was quite inspiring, and I
wanted to be part of that. It’s now somewhere convenient”
run by a charity called The Halifax
Nick Howard, Managing Director of Limehouse TV
Opportunities Trust, so while it’s a
commercial enterprise, the profits
go back into supporting the most
disadvantaged areas in Calderdale,
which is important to us.
I started on the first floor of the
building and I’ve worked up to the
6th floor. We now have about 3,000
square foot on the top floor of the
mill, in comparison to 100 square
foot in year one, and the building
has supported our growth at each
critical point.
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Assembly
Bradford
Bradford
“
Assembly Bradford is a serviced
office, co-working space and event
space on North Parade. We’re
located a stone’s throw away from
Forster Square Station and we’re
in an Edwardian listed commercial
chamber. Our space is really stun-
ning, we’ve got a beautiful vaulted
ceiling, dual aspect windows and
beautifully designed, bespoke ply “Shared experiences
desks.
in a space that’s more
As a freelancer, lone working can be
very isolating. It’s really difficult to productive than working
actually reach out and meet any-
body else, so having a space that from home”
you can go to regularly helps com-
David Craig, Co-director
bat that isolation, it helps build a
network of like-minded individuals.
The beauty of sharing a space like the table, something you might not Channel 4 investing in Leeds is a
ours is you can share tips and ideas, get in a larger city. clear vote of confidence in the area
you can collaborate. and the creativity that it offers.
Bradford has a well-established, but We’re hoping that Bradford can get
“We shout about all the under the radar, creative scene. It’s a bigger slice of the pie moving
a little more punk and DIY . Here at forward.
exciting things happening
Assembly Bradford, we host GLUG
in Bradford” Bradford, we engage with the com- It’s a land of opportunity. There’s so
munity by trying to create things much potential just waiting to be
There are a lot of exciting and they want to come along to. We’re tapped. There’s a 4,000 capacity
innovative things happening in hosting a whisky tasting, just to get live entertainment venue coming
Leeds, but we wanted to create people into the space to see what to the city soon, there’s a new food
something in our own city, to show we do, and we’re planning a young market coming to Darley Street
that Bradford has bags of potential. professionals networking event later and they’re planning on opening
It’s architecturally stunning, it’s also this year too. an urban village within sight of our
super affordable, not just to work co-working space, so there are
here, but also to live here. loads of exciting opportunities in
“It’s jammed full of
Bradford.
You can have a better quality of life exciting people doing
and lower overheads, which means innovative things”
you can take more risks, and that’s
useful for growing small businesses. The Leeds City Region has a wealth
Doing something interesting in a of talent when it comes to tech and
city that’s emerging gets us a seat at creativity.
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Edge45
“
ACOLLECTIVE, York
“If you value
your work-
life balance,
York is always
going to be
better”
Colin Docherty, Founder and
Owner of Edge45
York is beautiful, it’s an old historic desks with fixed computers, phone almost like being in London, and it
city. Our office overlooks the lines, things like that. never used to be like that. I think that
Shambles, which people come has a subconscious effect on people’s
from all over the world to visit, and The lockable studios at wellbeing, it takes a bit of an edge off
we just stare at it out of our office ACOLLECTIVE have allowed us to the stress levels.
window. It’s also smaller, so it’s move into what feels like our own Remaining in the city centre is
easier to network and get to know office, even though it’s still a co- very important, it’s a draw when
other businesses. working space, and be able to afford we’re trying to hire, and therein
it. We don’t pay rates, we don’t pay lies the beauty of somewhere like
In our industry, Leeds is known electric, we don’t pay for cleaning, it’s ACOLLECTIVE because you don’t
as a serious hotbed for large all taken care of. get these kinds of spaces outside of
search companies, it’s got really town, but perhaps if they didn’t exist,
big agencies to rival the likes of There’s a real mix of businesses with we wouldn’t be able to remain in the
London – you don’t have those kind different skills, that we otherwise centre of town.
of mega agencies in York, so we’re wouldn’t know about or meet. It’s
able to put our stamp on this town, really good for supporting other
which we wouldn’t be able to do businesses and I think we’re all
elsewhere. learning more than we would do
otherwise. Because we’ve got other
“It’s really good for people in really close proximity to us
that have different knowledge and
supporting small skill sets, we’re able to pick up and
businesses” absorb some of that.
I started at The Hiscox Building, in “It’s a different pace of life”
the Business Club, which is great for Everything is walkable, we’re not in
freelancers working with a laptop and this massive sprawling city. It’s got all
a mobile phone, but when you need these fascinating little eateries, pubs,
to employ people, you need fixed microbreweries and restaurants, it’s
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Rabbit
Hole
Duke Studios, Leeds
Rabbit Hole was your classic starter
company in your bedroom. Tim and
I worked together at University – we
really liked living in Leeds and we
really loved our student experience,
so it never even crossed our minds
to go somewhere else.
There’s a lot of innovation and cul-
ture in Leeds and I think the people
that are driving that forward want
to work with local companies like
us rather than London agencies. It’s
exciting to see how the independent
food and drink sector has sprung up
over the last 10 years too. We’re now
starting to see the same thing with
the tech sector. We feel like Leeds
“
has grown and we’ve grown with it.
“Our business rocketed
after we moved into Duke
Studios”
place to work”
We came to Duke right at the begin-
ning, and what appealed about the
vision for it, was the idea of being
The city is full of vibrant communi-
ties, there’s a tech community, an
“Leeds
a part of a community with similar
start-ups and agencies, like-mind-
arts community, a music scene, and
I’ve found those communities very
is really
ed people, that would just make
our jobs feel a little bit nicer. We
welcoming, I’ve been able to get
involved and get some work out of
getting into
met people in the first few months
of moving into Duke Studios that
them. It’s a super welcoming city
and there’s a real DIY, independent
its stride in
we still work and collaborate with
today, so it was a genuine game
spirit in Leeds, which has benefited
our work as a lot of these starters
tech”
changer for us. need companies like ours to define Mark Martin, Co-founder and
their brand, help with the initial mar- Managing Director of Rabbit Hole
I wouldn’t work anywhere else in keting or create a website.
Leeds because there’s just a vibe and
a feeling here, everyone’s really nice The city is welcoming, it’s collab-
and I’m really happy to be working orative, I think there is a spirit of
here. I feel like everything I want is entrepreneurship and collaboration,
here in Leeds. It’s big enough that because it’s still growing, you can
there’s commerce, innovation and start something really great and
culture, but at the same time, it’s not make a difference.
so big that it’s overwhelming, so we
feel connected.
“Leeds is a really nice
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Production
Production Park is a unique Being in Wakefield, great
environment for the development connectivity, a supportive local
of live events. It’s a place that unites community and the trademark
Park technology, manufacturing, design,
creative spaces and education. It
came about by focusing on the needs
Yorkshire friendliness have all
become assets that our clients
appreciate.
Wakefield of the world’s biggest touring artists,
to provide a dedicated support We’re also passionate about creating
environment for those guys. a University for Wakefield, and we’re
starting work now on building an
We now have over 15 businesses innovation centre, a new incubator,
operating on the park and a dynamic co-working spaces and an events
and creative cohort of over 200 hub, which we see as being the
students. Five years ago, it was clear foundations for a wider creative
to see what was happening in the industries-focused university.
economy and the insatiable rise of
live events. We came up with a plan, “It’s a creative community
and started with an old distribution
warehouse, creatively converted that people want to be
to house five companies working part of”
in entertainment technology and
live events. Over that period we’ve We’re fundamentally ‘grassroots’ and
grown from around 35 people to have a number of freelancers or sole
over 300 and we’re now moving onto trading creatives working at any one
new ‘designed for purpose’ projects, time on challenging commissions
which is really exciting. from across the world.
“There’s a sense of However, we recognise the value of
the local creative communities, and
community and a real can- more recently, we’ve had support
do attitude” for projects through the Leeds LEP
team and met with organisations like
Co-working spaces allow for rapid the University of York and University
‘live’ communication, which is the of Leeds on potential R&D projects.
best way to share ideas. In our case, We’re also partnering with Wakefield
this facilitates unique collaborations Council on a three year project
of creativity and expertise, which to expand incubator space on the
drives things forward. It also allows park where smaller companies and
companies to be in a safe and freelancers can be based.
private environment, so confidential
commercial projects can be developed
easily and with reduced risk.
“ “It’s a unique mix of
manufacturing, design and
creativity, all focussed on
creating live experiences”
Lee Brooks, Co-founder and CEO
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“ “If you’re working in live
event technology, this is
absolutely the place to be”
Klean Dalton, Lucid Technologies
Lucid
Technologies
Production Park, Wakefield
all over, so it’s really important to
We offer hardware and services to “It’s a really close have this really strong hub to call
support productions within digital me- community, especially the home.
dia departments. It all started because
live events industry”
I was, and still am, a student at Back- “The collaborative
stage Academy, which is the university environment is the most
based here at Production Park. Everyone knows everyone and they
help each other out – that intimacy important thing”
We were already familiar with the
is really important. And Yorkshire is
workings of Production Park, the The talent coming through the area,
absolutely heaving with people who
clientele it brings and the amazing both from the university and the
want to get involved in tech, people
opportunities that it presents. The freelancers here at Production Park,
who want to produce really cool
biggest artists and productions is really important. It keeps us on
stuff – and that’s aided by the work
come through here – it’s York- our toes and it drives us to be better.
that’s happening at the University of
shire’s best kept secret. Honestly, As a company that only launched
Leeds, here at Production Park and
hand on heart, there’s nothing like 18 months ago, it was really impor-
across the region in general.
it in the world. It’s the MediaCity tant for us to have a strong network
of live events – the entire ethos of The fact that we can get anywhere of people around us, so when we
the campus is networking, connec- in the country in three hours is have big projects coming in, we feel
tivity and collaborative working. ideal – and that plays a big part in like we can handle it. There are 150
There are so many companies, our work, because we’re the call people on site every day that we can
designers and entrepreneurs com- out people when things go wrong. call at a moment’s notice. The fact
ing through the site every day, we We do a lot of work in the e-sports that you can have a small team, but
couldn’t have put ourselves in a industry in London, we do a lot of feel like you’re 100-strong, that’s the
better place to grow. work in the Middle East – we work benefit of Production Park.
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Chapel
Street
Bradford
The rise of co-working spaces The millennial generation are
continues apace, fuelled by the digital nomads. They have a
power of collaboration, community laptop, they have a mobile, they
and cost-effectiveness, the number can work anywhere. But research
of co-working spaces in the Leeds suggests that what they lack is
City Region continues to grow – and human interaction. It can be a quite
the latest to join their ranks is 30 isolating experience and feeling
Chapel Street. It’s a social enterprise like you’re part of the community
in a Grade II-listed building in Little is important, so they wanted to
Germany and they’ve applied to join create a tribal community around
Impact Hub, a global network of social entrepreneurship, using
co-working spaces that drives social the co-working model to bring
innovation. people together and encourage
collaboration.
“Unlike most cities, we aren’t
pursuing a narrative of being the Although it’s yet to officially open,
next ‘Silicon Valley’, we’re looking 30 Chapel Street has already
for the technology intersections created a sense of community in
between communities in Bradford,” Bradford with a packed calendar of
Imran Ali, Co-founder of 30 Chapel events, including a place-making
Street, explained. workshop to co-design and co-
create their new space. But their
most successful event to date was
“The city has a burgeoning TEDxBradford – 300 flooded into
social enterprise scene and the The National Science and Media
a growing grassroots arts Museum to see 17 world-class
and culture community, speakers, and soon, the event was
trending on Twitter in the UK.
so we’re developing
events and programmes
to help find humane
technology and digital arts
intersections, creating
a platform for people,
projects and places in
those areas. Putting the
social back into social
enterprise”
Kamran Rashid, Social
entrepreneur
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The
Media
Centre
Huddersfield
The Media Centre was formed in The Leeds City Region has a it’s full of the most extraordinary
1995. Originally, it was a project long legacy, over 100 years of people and talent. It’s got a real
of the local authority, they were entrepreneurial spirit, and I entrepreneurial spirit and I think
very forward thinking, so they saw think that still exists. The digital that comes from our long legacy of
that we needed to create a hub to infrastructure in Leeds and the textile mills, manufacturing firms
bring businesses together to get confidence in the digital space is and engineering companies, there’s
those clustering benefits you get starting to really bear fruit now a real culture of entrepreneurship in
when you have like-minded people and it’s be-coming really exciting, Huddersfield.
working in close proximity. But it people will want to be near that. I
The location is absolutely fantastic.
grew so fast that within 5 years of think Channel 4 and what it brings
We’re almost equal distance
opening, it became independent of to Leeds is going to accelerate that
between Manchester and Leeds.
the council. even more so now.
We’ve got a train line, The Media
In 2007, in collaboration with the Huddersfield is an extraordinary Centre is less than a two-minute
local authority, we built a new town. walk to the train station, and there’s
environmentally-friendly, great a train every twenty minutes to
A lot of people can’t really point
green credentials, modern glass Manchester or to Leeds.
to Huddersfield on a map, but
building that looks fan-tastic.
Now, in our 24th year, it’s a
complex of four buildings in the
centre of Huddersfield – we have
120 businesses and 530 people
working here. We also host a
number of meet-ups that are either
run by ourselves or by other people
in the community to get people
together.
“It’s going to be on a
totally different level in a
few years”
“
The creativity comes from the
residents – when you put those 120
businesses together, you feel it and
you see it. Co-working is all about
creating a space where diverse
“We’re here to help
groups of people, who may not
have anything in com-mon, build
you move forward”
up trust and forge friendships,
that’s when they realise they can
learn from each other. I think that
is the power of co-working. Brent Woods, Chief Executive
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Oportunity, lifestyle
and community
Quality of life
• National Geographic
Traveller names West
Yorkshire on cool list 2019
• Sunday Times Best Places
to Live 2019 “head to the
lively heart of Leeds for
stylish shopping, culture
and food”
• A vibrant craft ale scene
including Magic Rock,
Northern Monk, Northern
Brewing Co
• Channel 4’s HQ will
based at Majestic Leeds a
landmark building which
was formerly used as a
cinema and nightclub
• Man Behind the
Curtain, Leeds is one
of five Michelin starred
Yorkshire restaurants
whilst Bradford’s Prashad
has a Bib Gourmand
accolade for its Indian
cuisine
• The Climate Innovation
District, a pioneering,
sustainable community
on Leeds South Bank
bringing together energy-
efficient technology and
Scandinavian design
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If you’re a digital or creative business looking to set up a new operation in Leeds City Region,
then grant funding may be available.
The funding can contribute towards the costs related to the investment
Office fit out Equipment Alterations to
premises
Architects / design including:
consultancy fees IT consultancy costs
for the layout of
Your business could be eligible for a grant contribution of between
£10,000 - £50,000 if you meet the following criteria:
• intends to establish new operations in Leeds City Region
• is a creative, digital or technology business
• has eligible capital costs associated with this investment
• is creating five or more full time, permanent jobs in the City Region
• has a trading history of a minimum of 12 months
• has an eligible capital project with a value over £10,000
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