In 2009 Newmarket and Karan Thompson Consulting were appointed as Creativity and Innovation Coaches for Dublin as part of the CreativeD project. CreativeD is a project funded through the ERDF Interreg IVB tranche of funding, and has at its core the goal of bringing together the creative industries in Dublin to understand how the sector works, to define the pathways that lead to success and to facilitate network members in progressing projects in a supportive environment.

Newmarket has worked with Karan Thompson Consulting Limited on the development and implementation of a 6-month national awareness building and advocacy campaign aimed at defining the future strategic direction of music education provision in Ireland. As part of this programme we developed a series of events and activities in order to raise awareness of the existence of the Department of Education’s pilot project for Music Education Partnerships