Design Initiative Forced to Close After 20 Years

Support organisation Design Initiative has closed its doors due to lack of funding. The organisation ran for 20 years and supported thousands of designers in the North West.

Offices in Manchester and Liverpool have now closed and its four staff members have been made redundant. Design Initiative its Arts funding pulled in March 2011 and continued to lose funding from various sources ever since.

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