Make your production company investment-ready in 6 days.

Learn essential strategies to attract financial backing for creative media projects.

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Does This Sound Like You?

I have all the creative knowledge but I lack the business knowledge.

I'm struggling to win funding or commissions.

My production company isn't working the way I want.

I feel overwhelmed and burnt out.

I'm too reliant on waiting for the phone to ring.

You are not alone...

Nearly 2,000 producers have reached out to CreativeHQ for help in the past year and all of them were facing the same challenges.
One of our CreativeHQ members, Fern, was about to leave the film industry completely before she joined us. Now her company is thriving and she has multiple projects in development and production.

Imagine, in 6 days you could…

Have a solid plan for making a return from your creative work

Have a clear understanding of where to connect with the right financial backers

Have a killer pitch that will get the right results

The right strategy can make all the difference. We’ll cover it all in the 'Get Investment-Ready' workshops.

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Get Investment Ready Workshop

You Are Ready To Turn Your Production Company Into a Creative Powerhouse?

This 6-session workshop will teach you everything you need to know to attract the right financial backers to your creative work:

Establish a strong strategy and plan
Make connections with the financial backers that are right for your work
Write a pitch that will get results

This workshop series is perfect for independent film and TV producers that are running their own companies.

With a simple shift in your mindset and some smart strategic moves, you can transform the profitability of your film and TV work, and attract a wider range of financial backers.

I'm Ready

What's Included In The Workshops...

WORKSHOPS 1 & 2

The Right Kind of Financial Backing

Your production company is unique. So is the way you will attract investment. Not all investors are the same so in this session you will learn:

Which parts of your company are most attractive to investors
Which investor type fits your company best and why
What governance or structure changes might be needed to support growth and attract finance

You’ll finish these sessions with a clear idea of how your company needs to be structured in order to attract the right kind of financial backing.

WORKSHOP 3

Preparing Your Production Company For Investment

With the right plan and strategy, your company will emerge as an attractive asset that financiers will want to back. In this lesson, you’ll learn:

The importance of audience data
Ways of collecting the right data to support projected sales
How to develop IP that audiences are craving

You’ll finish this workshop with a clear understanding of how your work will connect with much bigger audiences and generate more sales.

WORKSHOP 4

Breaking The Project-To-Project Trap

The creative media industries are volatile. The secret to finding financial stability is to stop obsessing over individual projects and start thinking about a broader company vision. In this lesson, you’ll learn:

How to maximise your creative power without spreading yourself too thin
Different revenue stream options
How to build a financial flywheel

You’ll finish this lesson with a clear understanding of how your company can stabilise income and start growing.

WORKSHOPS 5 & 6

The Plan and Pitch

These are the workshops that change everything: your plan for the next 3-5 years drawn up in punch-packing detail. In this workshop, you’ll learn:

How to design your production company business plan and forecast
The incentives for investors, such as EIS, SEIS
How your company is valued and how to get the best offer
How to manage risk
The right way to pitch to the right kind of financial backers

You’ll finish this workshop with a clear plan, a strong financial ask and a pitch to help you win it.

NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Charlotte Knowles

As a film producer, I was always working around the clock, spreading myself so thin to get my projects produced and distributed to audiences. It was exhausting. When I started to look beyond the creative process and explore the business of creative media, everything changed: I started to build businesses that would attract serious financial backing. As the CEO of the Independent Film Trust (a UK non-profit that supports independent media production), I spent almost a decade exploring how these skills could be adopted by other writers, directors and producers to make their work more sustainable. This made me passionate about fostering a more financial sustainable ecosystem within the screen sector.

I founded CreativeHQ as creative business accelerator and funding platform where ambitious film and TV producers can build industry-leading production companies.

"This session demystified so much around financing, turning what felt like a far-off unicorn into something real and achievable"

- Sam

"I wish I had all this knowledge and support few years back. I would have benefited tons. I love being part of Creative HQ as it's a good balance of self learning, clinics and workshops. That community feeling is amazing."

- Kerri

"Forget the single-project mindset. This is about building a future. Learn from success, skip the comparison trap, and invest in relationships that actually last."

- Tom

What makes us unique.

Real-World Experience: Unlike other programmes, CreativeHQ is made for working producers by working producers.

Tried & Tested: We only share strategies we have tried ourselves that we know work.

Community-Focused: The best way to achieve success is to join a community where that success is the norm. This is that community.

Investment-Driven: We believe that more successful production companies will drive more investment into the entire screen sector. We are being part of that solution by helping others grow.