Welcome to the Creative Foundation

How do you regenerate a once-fashionable but now faded seaside town?

The regeneration question matters across Britain, and for the Folkestone-based Creative Foundation it demands an innovative answer: we want to revitalise the town by attracting and harnessing the energies of creative people and businesses.

Much activity is focused on the Creative Quarter, the old part of town around the harbour. If you’re interested in taking retail, office, studio or live/work space, you’ll find full details of what’s available and how to apply.

If you’d just like to know more about the Creative Foundation, its plans and its partners in regeneration, you’ll also find plenty of information. Creative Folkestone will lead you to some of the same information, but offers some historical background on the way.

Take a browse through the site, and if you want to comment or know more,
please contact us.

Click on the link to view a 5 minute film about the Creative Quarter




FIND YOUR TALENT

Shepway Find Your Talent is one of the government’s ten pilot cultural offers for all children and young people which aims to ensure they have access to the wide range of quality cultural experiences essential to unlocking their talent and realising their potential. Shepway Find Your Talent is run by The Creative Foundation in partnership with Kent County Council.

For more information click here. For a free copy of Shepway Find Your Talent’s Cultural Audit Report click here



REGENERATION REPORT

South East Coastal Towns: Economic Challenges and Cultural Regeneration is a new report (November 2009) researched and written by David Powell of David Powell Associates and Professor Fred Gray of the University of Sussex, and commissioned by The Creative Foundation with funding from SEEDA.

To see a pdf copy of the full report (3 MB, 63 pages) please follow the link here.