From June 2024 to February 2025, Re:Create Wandsworth empowered fifty creative, self-employed individuals and small enterprises in the borough of Wandsworth to develop their businesses and thrive within their communities and beyond.

Re:Create Wandsworth is a business support programme designed specifically for creatives and micro or small creative enterprises. Thanks to our continuing partnership with Wandsworth Council and funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, we provided free one-to-one business mentoring, networking opportunities and access to an on-demand, e-learning course. This edition of Re:Create Wandsworth followed on from Re:Create 2021 and Re:Create 2023.

The objectives of the programme were to:
• Increase business resilience and financial sustainability
• Build business confidence and skills
• Develop networks in the borough

Signing up to the Re:Create Business Skills E-learning is still free of charge until April 2026. Click here to find out more about the course. 

What did the programme achieve?

0

Jobs Safeguarded

0

Est. additional income generated across cohort

Social Return on Investment of

£1:£10.16

Who did the programme support?

A diverse cohort of 50 talented creative freelancers, artists, and creative business owners from across the borough of Wandsworth took part in Re:Create Wandsworth from June 2024 to February 2025
See who took part – scroll through the slider of images below by hovering over the first or last images, then click the arrows

Cohort diversity

31%

Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic-led businesses

83%

Women led businesses (and those that identify as women)

23%

Disabled-led businesses

Hear form the cohort

My mentor listened and understood exactly where I was coming from. They provided very useful tools and techniques – just the kind of thing that I needed in order to think clearly about what I am looking to create and develop”
– Re:Create Wandsworth participant on one-to-one Business Mentoring

I’ve made more of an effort to reach out to people I don’t know and to make connections in order to build my network.”
– Emily Stott on feeling part of a network

A very professional and easily digestible resource…. For me as an artist, the advice on how and when to use social media was particularly relevant.”
– Elaine Giles from Make a Mark on e-learning

I’ve built new confidence to reach out to potential new clients, brands, galleries and venues. Also, with my new dose of confidence I’ve set plans in motion to tick some big dreams off my list. One of those being securing a venue to host a group art show at The Bedford Pub in Balham over the WAF 2025 celebrations.”

– Krystal Wong on increased confidence in how to grow and sustain her business

How the cohort felt after completing the programme:

Have increased confidence in how to grow and sustain their business 0 %

Have an improved understanding and ability to make a business plan 0 %

Have more confidence in themselves 0 %

Inspiring Networking Event

On Thursday, 6 February, creatives from across the London Borough of Wandsworth gathered at the Royal Academy of Dance for a networking event celebrating artistic enterprise and opportunity.

Click here to find out more about the event

Photography by Rebecca Cresta

Case Studies

We have developed a number of case studies to capture the Re:Create Wandsworth experience and demonstrate the ways in which individual participants benefited from the programme.
Click the images below to read each case study in more detail 

Want to bring Re:Create to your borough and better support the creatives in your community?