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CREW is pleased to announce that applications are now open for Resilience and Diversification in the Digital Creative Industries, a new CLIMB Course for creative businesses.
CLIMB Courses offer targeted, flexible learning for entrepreneurs and SMEs across the creative digital ecosystem, focusing on the critical skills needed for market and business growth. They are a key part of CLIMB – Creative Leaders Innovating for Market & Business Growth, a wider programme of supports and tailored growth opportunities for high-potential digital creative businesses.
To see the full range of CLIMB Courses, head over to our CLIMB programme page.
What is Resilience and Diversification in the Digital Creative Industries?
This course is for creative businesses who want to navigate uncertainty while protecting profit. Participants will learn to identify and prioritise key risks, put simple mitigation actions in place, and use scenario planning to understand impacts on revenue, costs and cashflow. A central theme is margin protection: understanding break-even, where profit leaks occur, and how to ensure growth happens in a controlled way that safeguards profitability.
The course also explores resilience through diversification, helping businesses assess new income streams, customers or markets in a way that supports long-term stability. Participants will leave with a clearer, more confident plan for sustainable expansion and a practical risk-and-diversification roadmap to navigate uncertain economic environments.
Who’s it for?
This course is for growing creative businesses with sales experience who want to manage risk, protect margins, build resilience and plan for sustainable growth.
Course Overview
This is a 1-day course consisting of 2 workshops, with the morning workshop focussing on mitigating risk and building resilience in uncertain economic environments while the latter half of the day while the second workshop looks at growth and planning through diversification.
Workshop 1: Risk, Resilience and Diversification
In this part of the course, participants will cover:
- Understanding Risk in Creative Businesses – identifying the main risks facing creative businesses and where the business is most exposed
- Risk and Mitigation Planning – prioritising risks and putting simple actions in place to reduce their impact
- Scenario Planning for Uncertain Markets – planning for different future outcomes and how they affect revenue, costs and cashflow
- Margin Protection – understanding break-even point, where profit is lost, and how to protect margins as the business grows
- Building Resilience Through Diversification – exploring ways to diversify income, customers or markets without damaging profit
- The Ansoff Growth Matrix – using a simple tool to assess growth options and understand their risk levels.
Workshop 2: Customers, Growth and Planning Ahead
Participants will also explore:
- International Growth and Export Readiness – assessing when and how to grow into new markets with reduced risk
- Understanding Your Future Customer – gaining deeper insight into future customers to support better pricing and positioning
- Flexible Business Models – making the business more stable by reducing dependency and stress-testing break-even
- Trends, Change and Pricing Pressure – understanding market changes and protecting value without competing on price
- Financial Resilience and Decision-Making – using cashflow and break-even to make better decisions in uncertain conditions
- Creating a Resilience and Growth Plan – bringing the learning together into a clear, practical 12–18 month plan.
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: Friday June 5, 2026
- Course Delivery: Friday June 12, 9am-4pm
Key Details
- Location: CREW (in-person)
- Facilitator: Declan Droney
- Cost: €160
How to apply
You can apply for the course by filling out an application form by Friday June 5 2026, which you can find here: https://crew.acceleratorapp.co/apply/program/climb-resilience-and-diversification-in-the-digital-creative-industries
Please note that there are a limited number of spaces for this course.
The course is being offered to the SME at 20% of the market rate (the full programme is valued at €800) with the remaining 80% supported by Enterprise Ireland Smart Region scheme. In order to avail of this discounted rate, all applicants are asked to confirm that they have the appropriate De Minimis balance to accept the support. More information on De Minimums State Aid can be found here: State Aid | Enterprise Ireland
CLIMB Courses are delivered by CREW as part of the CLIMB programme and are co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Northern and Western Regional Programme 2021–27.
