[New] Photography and video business secures creative growth funding

A specialist grant has been approved by The Coventry Creative Growth & Cultural Tourism Recovery Programme to ESMEDIA, offering a revenue grant of £2,500.

The CRF Funding is a second successful grant win for ESMEDIA, after securing the first iteration of the funding during February 2022.

ESMEDIA has since been committed to supporting local and national businesses’ marketing and expertise through creating high quality promotional video and photography, tailored specifically for the use of social media and web deployment.

The grant was funded towards the costs of photography studio equipment and is offered through Small Amounts of Financial Assistance regulations. With special thanks to WEX Photo Video, who have supplied the photography equipment whilst also providing an excellent service in order to support Esmé’s successful grant bid.

The Coventry and Warwickshire Business Support Programme assists Small Medium Enterprises (SME) with fewer than 250 employees; in particular, companies looking to invest in capital assets, for example, machinery or equipment.

With the newly purchased equipment future-proofing the business, ESMEDIA has since continued to create major productions for clients such as Barr’s Hill School, to support their web and social deployment, creating testimonial videos for the School of Social Entrepreneurs, Birmingham, and leading on producing a series of filmed client interviews for locally based health-guru, Mark Clement’s Unbreakable Dad fitness programme.

In addition to the funding, Esmé Spurling also benefited from a number of 1:1 sessions with Chris Hartley, director of Hartley Consulting and Events. During the meetings, Chris navigated ESMEDIA through some marketing decisions that provided helpful networking advice, providing maximum outreach to potential clients both locally and nationally.

With the successful win and support of the CRF Funding Programme, and key stakeholders formed in her network, 2023 is due to be another exciting year for Esmé Spurling and her award-winning multimedia business, ESMEDIA.