Kirklees creative survey coming your way!

Understanding the Kirklees Creative Ecology Survey

We would like to give you advanced notice that a survey will be going out in the next few days as a development from the Kirklees Creative Sector Impact Report. This will enable us to further understand what the creative sector looks like in Kirklees.

We would appreciate it if you could keep an eye out for this survey and take a few minutes to fill it in. We would also like to ask you to spread it throughout your networks to maximize our reach.

Brief background: As you may be aware The Creative Economy team recently commissioned a report to get a better understanding of the size and the scale of the creative sector in Kirklees. Burns Owen Partnerships (BOP) undertook the research comparing the performance of Kirklees to the Leeds City region and the UK (you can read this report at the link below).

We knew we had a diverse sector with strong areas but were delighted to see the report’s headline findings:
• Generates over £100 million GVA
• Employs over 5,000 people
• Supports 860 creative SME businesses and VCS organisations and a significant portfolio of micro businesses
• Design is a major economic driver within the creative sector

We would like to explore this further and the survey will aim to dig a bit deeper into the make-up of the sector.

We’ll be sending the survey out soon and posting it on Creative Kirklees and would be glad of any help to pass it on to as many as possible in the Kirklees creative sector.

For more information visit http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/leisure/arts/pdf/CreativeEconomyReport.pdf