Examining the impact of the Creative Wales funded productions

Between April 2020 and March 2025, £23.7 million in funding was awarded to 45 screen and digital projects (in scope of this study). This investment is expected to have leveraged an estimated £263.9 million of production expenditure within Wales.

Analysis of production spend confirms a wide distribution of benefits across the foundational economy, particularly in accommodation, construction, logistics, and transport.

The industry accounting for the greatest share (62%) of direct production spend is motion picture, video and television programme production, with £177.23 million in realised and forecasted spend.

Screen-induced tourism emerged as a major channel of secondary economic contribution. Other spillovers include indirect contributions from studio development, cinema exhibition, film festivals, skills, education and outreach activity as well as public-facing cultural events.

Between April 2020 and March 2025, Creative Wales invested £2 million across 10 Welsh-language productions, representing approximately 8% of total production funding and equivalent to more than one in five of those in scope.

More than 425 trainees were supported through funded productions.

Several production companies reported having expanded their in-house capabilities, retained intellectual property, or scaled up operations as a result of support from Creative Wales.