Arts Week was a great success, with coverage for it being gained in the national press. In 2000 we moved the Arts week into Scarborough Fayre and renamed it Scarborough Fayre Cultural Festival, with a view to ultimately turning Scarborough Fayre into a significant Arts and Cultural festival along the lines of the Edinburgh Festival. At the same time, we changed our name from Scarborough Arts Week to Create, and commissioned some research by Pocklington based Creative Arts Promotions, who consulted widely on our behalf to try and gauge the level of support from funders, policy, and potential partners in our quest to rejuvenate Scarborough Fayre. From this research it became clear that there was a role for an arts development agency within the Borough of Scarborough with a broader remit than just festival organisation. In fact, Yorkshire Arts (now Arts Council Yorkshire) had defined this area as one of ‘low arts opportunity’, and suggested that Create re-examine its objectives.

In 2001 Create ran a prestigious Year of the Artist project at the Spa in Scarborough; this was a collaboration between Create, Talking Birds (a Coventry based Multi-media group), Hull University Scarborough Campus, and many other local artists. The project was considered a great success and led to Create receiving a development grant from Yorkshire Arts in 2001.This grant enabled Create to start the process of advocating the benefits and practical uses of a vibrant creative sector in the regeneration of the Borough of Scarborough and its communities.

In 2002 Create became an Arts Council ‘Regularly Funded Organisation’ (RFO) which gave the organisation some stability and enabled the organisation to employ a worker part time. This turned out to be fortuitous timing as soon after this, Scarborough was chosen by Yorkshire Forward (the regional economic development agency) to be an Urban Renaissance Town.

Create became heavily involved in Urban Renaissance and was able to shape it's direction by having the capacity to attend enough meetings to argue the case for culturally led regeneration which has now become a central theme in the regeneration of Scarborough and the wider borough.

Create continued to develop events including the now biennial Scarborough Festival of Light and also set up the Scarborough Arts and Culture Forum which is a Renaissance action group. The forum still meets regularly and anyone interested in further developing the cultural life of Scarborough can attend.

More recently Create has been instrumental in setting up the Creative Coast Creative and Digital Network which is a support organisation for creative professionals and businesses operating on the North Yorkshire Coast.