Business support

As part of Media Sandbox participants will receive a bespoke business support programme tailored to their needs:

Business Link
Lead Business Advisor Nigel Charman, who has worked on South West Screen's Alliances programme, will work with participants on business planning, identifying the potential market for their pilot, project management, marketing, IP and access to finance, in order to ensure successful outcomes and the creation of a commercially viable end product.

A Business Advisor with Business Link/Northern Arc based in Swindon, Nigel began his career in the electronics industry, in 1991 became an independent consultant specialising in strategic joint ventures before being recruited by Business Link to become part of the DTI-funded Business Alliance programme in the UK. In the twelve years with this organisation, he has formed many major joint ventures in industries which include marketing and mutimedia, precision engineering and electronics and business consultancy.