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Creative Wick
Creative Wick is a non-profit social enterprise focused on supporting the local creative community in Hackney Wick and Fish Island through various initiatives, including education projects and commercial opportunities for artists.
Overview
What Creative Wick does
What Creative Wick is
Creative Wick is a non-profit social enterprise focused on supporting the local creative community in Hackney Wick and Fish Island through various initiatives, including education projects and commercial opportunities for artists.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2010
- Approximate age
- About 16 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 4, 2026
Official channels
Find Creative Wick elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Creative Wick as a community
Community overview
Creative Wick is an independent non-profit social enterprise established to help preserve Hackney Wick and Fish Island as a permanent, sustainable creative cluster. It operates under the Hackney Wick and Fish Island Community Interest Company, incorporated to advance the arts and culture in the area. The organization aims to provide meaningful opportunities to the local creative community and ensure that regeneration meets the needs of those living and working in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, including the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park area.
Community focus
Creative Wick focuses on supporting the local creative sector through various initiatives and projects. Their work includes facilitating commercial opportunities for local artists and curators, providing young people with creative education opportunities, developing a network that fosters relationships between creative practitioners and local stakeholders, and engaging in research projects that explore sustainable community building.
Member value
Members benefit from access to mentorship programs, commercial opportunities, workshops, and a network of creative practitioners and local businesses. They also receive support in developing their creative talents through various educational initiatives.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students · Operators
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community and bootcamp
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- United Kingdom
Community activity
Events and activity
Creative Wick hosts several recurring events, including the Wick Development Forum for sharing ideas about the future of Hackney Wick and Fish Island, the School of Activism to engage young people in community activism, and the London Business School Tour connecting local creatives with students.
Notable members
William Chamberlain, Founder; Josephine Chime, Creative Producer; Aidan Bailey, Non-Executive Director; Cindy, Non-Executive Director.
Common questions
What to know about Creative Wick
Upseed classifies Creative Wick under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 4, 2026
Known limits
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