About us

The Creative Industries in the South East contribute approximately £4.6 billion to the region’s economy and employ over 60,000 people[1]. Larger than the Creative Industries of Wales and similar in size to Scotland, the South East Creative Economy Network (SECEN) areas of Greater Essex, Kent and Medway and East Sussex are major contributors to the national creative economy, which generates 124.6bn per year. In real terms, the economic value of the UK Creative Industries was 12 per cent bigger in 2022 than before the COVID pandemic and more than 50 per cent larger than its size in 2010[2]. This evidence of high and sustained growth indicates that the Creative Industries of the South East are very likely to have grown significantly since the last baseline study in 2016.

SECEN has played a vital role in attracting investment across a portfolio of projects and programmes which have collectively driven growth and boosted high value employment in the South East Economy.