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Celebrating World Creativity Day 2025: How Foreign Talent Enhances Creative Sectors and Impacts the UK Economy

April 18, 2025

Celebrating World Creativity Day 2025: How Foreign Talent Enhances Creative Sectors and Impacts the UK Economy

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By: Milosz Skorupski, Laurie Newbury

A country’s identity is often defined by its culture, and without creativity many would find themselves at a cultural deficit. The United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day, celebrated on 21 April, provides a great opportunity to highlight the UK’s creative industries, specifically the unique successes and challenges they face, with a view into the overall impact creativity has on the UK economy.

As the UN highlights, there are many reasons to celebrate creativity around the world, which is one of the fastest growing global economic sectors, despite being also one of the youngest. However, there are also ongoing struggles and barriers to the sustainable growth of businesses in these sectors.

The uniqueness of the creative industries and their impact on the UK economy

The creative industries, comprised of sectors such as arts and fashion, music, film, design, digital media and architecture, thrive on collaboration, innovation and a wide range of professionals. The creative sectors are extremely reliant on a robust, diverse and skilled workforce - whether that be fostered through local or international talent.

Culture and creativity account for 3.1% of global GDP and 6.2% of all employment, and exports of cultural goods and services reached $389.1 billion in 2019. In the UK, creative industries are worth around 5% of the economy and generate £124 billion in GVA, according to the Unleashing Creativity report prepared by Creative UK. They grow faster than the economy as a whole and no one can deny UK’s world-renowned position as a global powerhouse in this sector.

This industry is also different from other business sectors because of the disproportionate concentration in London and the Southeast of England. This has been addressed by several initiatives, such as creative clusters, but there is still much to be done, especially in relation to attracting foreign talent to relocate to other parts of the UK.

In 2023/2024, UK creative industries employed 2.4 million people (7% of all filled jobs in the UK), even though 93% of the creative industries organisations are micro businesses, hiring fever than 10 employees, which also brings with itself a different set of challenges than in any other industry.

Issued faced by the creative industries in the UK

An issue widely reported throughout the creative sectors is a lack of access to funding. The creative industry remains undervalued, and therefore vulnerable, despite reports of significant economic growth and contribution. These developments are often overlooked by both public and private investors, who tend to prioritise other ventures—perhaps due to the perception that the sector contributes to UK growth only in social or cultural terms, rather than offering financial returns.

Like many industries, the creative sectors have noted an increasing skills gap making it difficult to ensure the right talent are in the right roles. Widening the talent pool to include applicants from overseas can strengthen the workforce and increase output especially in terms of innovation.

Creativity and innovation are the core components of effective problem solving and business development, the industry crosses over to almost every other sector especially when considering roles in design and digital media which are utilised by all successful businesses. Though, as highlighted by the United Nations when discussing the World Creativity Day, the lack of universal definition and understanding of the concept of creativity and creative economics adds to the difficulty in formulating consistent and supportive government policy and, as a result, business strategy.

Expectations from the upcoming industrial strategy

In recognition of this industry’s impact on the economy, the current government has identified it as one of eight "growth-driving" sectors in its Invest 2035: the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy. Even though the full plans are to be announced in June, significant increases in financial support and investment are expected, especially outside London as detailed in the Creative industries: Growth, jobs and productivity document published by the House of Lords

The authors of the aforementioned Unleashing Creativity report made several recommendations to improve the situation of the industry and secure future growth. Most of them focus on the financial support and access to public funds, without which these organisations will struggle to grow and employ more employees – locally and internationally.

It has been announced that the government will allocate £60 million to support growth, with £40 million dedicated to investment in start-ups. The government also promised to create ‘the most attractive business environment’ and work with businesses to address barriers to growth.

In its green paper, foreshadowing the full strategy, the government confirmed that it needs to ensure that the UK creative sector ‘remains globally competitive as a home for world class talent while maximising access to important markets to tour and collaborate.’

Based on the published announcements, it appears that the government is committed to supporting this sector and, importantly, to collaborating with companies and organisations to achieve the best outcomes. Fragomen is closely monitoring these new policies to provide clients with comprehensive and informed guidance.

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For further information how we can support your company please contact Associate Milosz Skorupski at [email protected].

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