About Media Centric
MediaCentric is an industry-led group which brings together the region’s growing media and creative industries, across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and the East of England.
MediaCentric provides a dynamic forum where your media or creative company can:
- Share expertise and knowledge with industry colleagues
- Attend events with industry experts and participate in workshops and discussions
- Find out more about funding and training opportunities
- Have access to some of the region’s top art, media and design graduates
- Access the knowledge base and facilities of key partners
Most importantly, MediaCentric aims to raise the profile of our creative industries in a bid to retain business in this region.
A message from our patron, Graham Miller, ITV broadcaster:
"When I first heard of the MediaCentric group ‑ and its aims to bring
media enterprise and expertise in the region together ‑ I was delighted to
get this opportunity to become involved, as patron of the organisation.
Bedfordshire, and in particular my hometown of Luton, has been dealt a
difficult hand in terms of growth in the industry in which I work ‑ and have
always worked. That's often been a source of frustration for me; not to
mention a few more local colleagues over the years.
It's important, though, I feel ‑ to focus on the region as a whole. Through
networking, support and of course funding for burgeoning media enterprise we
can begin to even out a playing field which, perhaps for too long has become
somewhat 'London‑centric'. I'm impressed that this has been picked up on by
a number of individuals, companies and institutions in the region. Though
only a name, MediaCentric offers us a glimpse of a future in which
assumptions are not made about our region and its ability to provide the
very best of opportunities for emerging talent. That we focus on the media
itself and the strength of the product is imperative; it should not matter
from where it is conceived. If media has taught us anything it's that it's
changeable, flexible and subject to trends. In the past those trends were
firmly established and espoused in our capital ‑ with offerings from more
regional outposts often eschewed or simply swallowed up. Perhaps this was
largely due to the often static, analogous nature of the media, or even the
production itself. In the digital age it seems anything is possible;
boundaries are blurred and media is on the move all the time ‑ it's up to us
to keep up."