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FOI2025/00877: IUK Creative Industries & Digital Competitions (North East Awards 2019–2025)

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Case reference FOI2025/00877

Received 1 October 2025

Published 8 December 2025

Request

Request Received: 1 October 2025

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:

1. A list of all successful awards made by Innovate UK under the following competitions:

• Creative Catalyst (including SME grants and Collaborative R&D)

• Create Growth Programme competitions (all rounds)

• Any Innovate UK/UKRI Investor Partnership competitions linked to the creative industries or digital sectors

• BridgeAI competitions where the sector focus included the creative industries

2. Please restrict the scope to awards made between 1 January 2019 and 30 September 2025 to organisations whose registered address is within the North East of England region (i.e. Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, and Tees Valley).

3. For each successful award, please provide:

• Recipient organisation name

• Project title

• Competition name / round

• Award amount (£)

• Award date

• Recipient organisation’s town/city and county

I am not requesting any commercially sensitive technical details, business models, or personal data.

Response

Response Sent: 28 October 2025

Full details of the response are contained in the attached documents.

Documents

• FOI2025_00877 Annex 1.xlsx (16.6 KB)
• FOI_Response_Letter - FOI2025_00877_Redacted.pdf (237.2 KB)

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