Barclays Creative Business Workshop

May 28, 2015

Creative Wick and Stour Space organised the first Barclays Bank creative business workshop in Hackney Wick on 28th May, 2015 at Stour Space. Two sessions of one-to-one surgeries were held with a range of business advisers in the morning followed by an afternoon group session of general financial and business advice. Barclays brought an accountant, two lawyers, a business banking manager and a UKTI representative to answer questions.

The free one-to-one surgeries were offered to local creative businesses to discuss and receive feedback on a range of business issues from tax, company structures, money planning, finance and, international markets.

Mental Health Boulder Project

Creative Wick in partnership with Hackney Wick Boulder Project and CoreArts is being funded by the WickAward to deliver beginner climbing mentoring sessions (one-to-one) with a qualified instructor, to help people manage their mental health issues. The benefits of bouldering and climbing as a mindful practice used as part of mental wellbeing management, have been…

Tradestars

In November, we partnered with Tradestars to commission local artists, with strong connections to HWFI, to create permanent artworks on the walls inside their new co-warehousing buildings located in Fish Island, giving formerly blank walls a distinctive mark to express the unique energy of this space. The Artists: Burrito (@burritoconluces_tattoo) I am Burrito, an artist…

Barclays Creative Business Workshop