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2.5 hours
Chichester City Council
Free Tickets Available
Tue, 23 Sep, 2025 at 12:30 pm to 03:00 pm (GMT+01:00)
Chichester City Council
North Street, Chichester, United Kingdom
Welcome to Inspire and elevate your business ambition with Create South East! Join us on Tuesday 23 September 2025 at The Old Court Room in Chichester City Council's The Council House on North Street for a FREE lunch-time event filled with inspiration, networking, learning and lunch snacks. We'll hear from local seasoned creative entrepreneurs and those emerging from the Create South East business support programme with signposting to other local support organisations and initiatives. This event is for creatives at all stages - freelancers, micro-business owners and anyone looking for support to take their creative and or digital business to the next level.
Info: Your host and Create South East's Strategic Lead, Jim Byford, welcomes you to the event and introduces the local supporting partners.
Info: Arjo is a seasoned internet entrepreneur, investor, and non-executive director, recognised for his contributions to the evolution of digital marketing. He founded Spannerworks in 1997, establishing it as a pioneering agency at the forefront of search and digital marketing strategy.
A decade after its inception, Spannerworks was acquired by US-based iCrossing Inc., helping to form a leading independent global digital marketing agency with l revenues surpassing $130 million. This success led to the eventual sale of iCrossing to Hearst Corporation Inc. in 2010.
Beyond his entrepreneurial ventures, Arjo has dedicated himself to a range of commercial and philanthropic initiatives. He served as a board member at the University of Sussex (2008-2017) and has been an active angel investor since the early 2000s.
Arjo is the Chair of AudioActive, a Sussex- based charity that empowers young people through music, providing them with opportunities for creative expression and personal growth.
Info: From Club Promoter to Industry Consultant: Yemisi Mokuolu is an award-winning consultant and producer dedicated to empowering creatives and leveraging culture as a catalyst for social and economic benefit. Through her company, Hatch Ideas, she provides business support and specialises in advising governments and organisations on frameworks and systems for the creative and cultural industries – working in the UK with the likes of the Barbican, British Library and Tate Galleries and around the world for the British Council, the European Union (Brussels), Goethe (Munich) and l'Institut français (Paris). Starting her career in 2002 as an Afro drum ‘n’ bass club promoter, Yemisi continues to produce events and public art. She is co-founder of Ghana’s “Asa Baako – One Dance” festival and Nigeria’s “Five Cowries” arts education initiative, supporting emerging artists. Yemisi also serves as Chair of Worthing Theatres & Museums.
Info: In 2023 Robert Edgington, Founder of Record Games, became a member of Cohort 2 of the Create South East Investor Readiness programme. He'll share more of his journey with us.
Robert says: "The programme was instrumental in helping Record Games strike the right chord with investors, and if you're a creative business looking for guidance and support, I can't recommend these programmes highly enough!"
Info: A BAFTA, RTS & International Women’s Podcast Awards nominee & Broadcast award winner, Jane directed documentary & factual TV series for UK & international broadcasters for 20 years before co-founding multiplatform content & communications studio Peanut & Crumb with broadcaster Katie Derham, building reach for brands & broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, Sotheby's and RBG Kew, as well as P&C's own IP brands.
Jane runs the business, oversees creative development and is responsible for P&C’s growth, building relationships with Innovate UK, Creative UK, Ukie & the Department of Business & Trade. Jane was selected for Creative UK’s inaugural Female Founders scale up programme in 2020; Evolve investment readiness programme; Innovate UK’s Build Fund, and trade delegation to SXSW in Texas in March 2025, taking P&C's Get Birding brand to the US market. She judges for the Audio Production Awards & British Podcast Awards.
Info: Louise Duggan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chichester. Her expressive mixed media work explores identity, emotion, and transformation, shaped by her African childhood and 23 years in Dubai. She is also the founder of Ophelia Art Consultancy LTD and Sussex Creative Art Network CIC.
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| Ticket type | Ticket price |
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| General Admission | Free |
