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Design Fund for Growth

The Design Fund for Growth was established by the Design Council to support the use of design for economic growth.

Five events took place across the country between November 2011 and March 2012, with each partner organisation recieving £20,000 from the Design Fund for Growth to plan, promote and run their proposed activity and to build on its impact thereafter. The Design Fund for Growth project has now come to a close, but to get a flavour of the events that took place, take a look through our videos, photos and reports on what happened.

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Recap: Five Days of Design

The West of England Design Forum held five events over five days (19-23 March) helping businesses understand design and the strategic business benefits, and to help designers promote themselves and design effectively.

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Recap: 10 Things I Learnt

On 9 March Design Wales Forum introduced 10 speakers from across design, technology and business who shared their experiences in an interactive event.

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Recap: Made North

One day conference that celebrated today’s innovators and provided a creative platform for presenting and debating ideas, processes and technology, inspiring the future talent emerging from the North.

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Recap: Design Icons

An exhibition and seminar series that ran in Cambridge throughout February 2012. The Design 4 Communication seminar explored how design plays a pivotal role in how your business is presented and understood

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Recap: Step up to Design

A day organised by Design Network North that focussed on the importance of innovation in the current business climate

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In 2010 our Small Grants Scheme allocated a total of £100,000 to 18 organisations who organised events and projects to promote the value of design to business

Contact us

 

Please email all queries to designfund
@designcouncil.org.uk

 

How the Design Fund was awarded

The call for the Design Fund for Growth received an overwhelming response, with 60 proposals submitted by organisations from all around UK.

 

The selection panel, chaired by Design Council trustee Pam Alexander included respected figures from business, design and technology.

 

The panel members were:

 

Bill Sermon from Via Dynamics

 

Dee Halligan a Design Council Design Associate

 

Ellie Runcie, Director of Design Innovation Services and Networks at the Design Council

 

Kathryn Best from Kathryn Best Design Management

 

Richard Eisermann from Prospect.

 

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