About
Discover CCC's mission to connect media professionals and foster creativity across the UK.
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What is Creative Cities Convention?
The Creative Cities Convention (CCC) is the UK’s leading meeting place for creative people making or distributing network screen content outside London – now a multi-million pound business that’s transforming the creative economy in Britain’s big cities and helping improve the representation of audiences in all four corners of the country.
The CCC was founded in 2018 and enjoys full stakeholder support from all the terrestrial broadcasters – BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel5/Paramount – as well as the independent sector through its trade body Pact. We prize highly our editorial independence and we seek to reflect our industry from all perspectives.
Each year the conference moves to a different major city and so far we’ve visited Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow (online), Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol and most recently Bradford.
Our team
This is the small but mighty team that run Creative Cities Convention.
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Tammie is a creative producer and award-winning writer from Bradford. She’s worked on national events (Turner Prize, National Poetry Centre’s Young Poet Laureate Programme launch) and has spent five years working in TV development and production on reality, factual-entertainment and documentary programmes (BBC Studios, Studio Lambert, Raw etc.).
She’s a Grierson Doclab and Edinburgh TV Festival’s ‘The Network’ alum, getting into TV after a career as a civil engineer. She’s currently on Edinburgh TV Festival’s Class & Social Equality Working Group to make TV more accessible for the working-class.
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Laura provides administrative and office support and has a broad range of business experience including publishing, marketing and account management.
Co-founder and former director of the Creative Cities Convention, Ruth is MD of Under The Moon Ltd, a media consultancy specialising in levelling the industry playing field for people from all backgrounds and advising on the strategic development of the film and TV sector outside London.
She was previously head of documentaries at Granada Television, creative director of documentaries at the BBC, head of factual at Tiger Aspect Productions, founder of Real Life Productions and Advisory Chair of the Edinburgh International TV Festival. She is an IPC trained print journalist and a former radio and television reporter.
Ruth is also co-founder (with the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage) of the National Poetry Centre, which will be the nation’s first dedicated national cultural centre for poetry.
Susie has worked on the Creative Cities Convention since it began in 2018 and ensures the smooth running of the conference. She has extensive expertise in making sure events and activities fully deliver.
Susie is passionate about working in the creative industries whether in her former role as a BBC television producer on both live and pre-recorded studio-based shows or working in programme development looking for new on-screen talent.
In addition to her role as Operations Director for the CCC she has organised and run a variety of events and mentoring projects for Under the Moon including the Channel 4 Commissioning Mentor Network, Pact’s 30th birthday celebrations for 700 people in central London, the ScreenSkills/Channel 4 FilmMakers25 mentor project in Bradford and a wide range of other mentor networks and workshops.
Sarah is an award-winning Project Director and Executive with a proven track record of initiating, structuring and delivering complex programmes across the UK’s creative industries, alongside extensive senior-level experience as a programme maker.
She is highly experienced in taking projects from concept to completion, aligning diverse stakeholders and delivering to an exceptionally high standard.
Trusted by broadcasters, streamers, funders, government bodies and industry partners to lead large-scale skills, training and talent initiatives, strategic reviews and flagship events. Known for combining creative vision with rigorous project management, calm leadership and meticulous delivery.
Past Events
Want to see what happened at past events? See below for the past event pages complete with programmes, speakers, photos and more.
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Legacy
At CCC, we believe in nurturing the next generation of media professionals. In 2025, we introduced an opportunity that gave a young person a month's internship opportunity at Clapperboard Studios, a leading production company.
Photography credit
We are fortunate to work with amazing photographers who make our events successful by capturing some of the best moments.
The Creative Cities website uses images kindly provided by various third-parties. We would like to credit and thank the following:
Owen Humphreys, Karol Wyszynski, Phil Jackson – Bradford images across the site
Charlie Swinbourne and Lou Willcock – CCC Bradford
Barry Pells, Photographer – CCC Newcastle
Chris Cooper, Photographer – CCC Bristol
Huw John, Photographer – CCC Cardiff
Jas Sansi, Photographer – CCC Birmingham
Mark Wheelwright, Photographer – CCC Leeds
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