Archived Funds
This section contains an archive of funding programmes previously offered by Creative Scotland, as well as funds and developmental programmes Creative Scotland has previously funded with other partners. Please note that all the funds contained within this section are no longer open to applications or supported by Creative Scotland. Visit the Funding Programmes page to see an up-to-date summary of programmes presently open to applications.
A fund for those individual artists and freelancers who have lost income from their creative work and/or practice due to COVID-19. Requests to the fund are now closed.
This programme ran until 2020, reinvesting moneys reclaimed from criminal activity, into supporting projects which provided access to high quality experiences in all art forms for young people (0-25 years) in communities where there is an identified and demonstrated need.
This fund is to support creative freelancers working in the arts, screen or creative sectors who are experiencing immediate financial hardship, due to loss of income because of cancellations and deferrals caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fund is focused on support for businesses which are vital to the cultural life of Scotland, and which have been adversely financially impacted by cancellations or postponement of activities that were due to have taken place in the period between 27 November 2021 and 31 March 2022. This also includes organisations that have been adversely impacted as a result (...)
A pilot mentoring and match-funding scheme for those looking to embark on a crowdfunding campaign. Deadline was 2 July 2018.
A fund to support a network of creative practitioners, organisations and communities.
Organisations that contribute to the rich and diverse cultural life of Scotland have been significantly impacted by COVID-19. This fund has been established by the Scottish Government to help address their needs.
The Gaelic Critics Mentoring Programme will offer three aspiring Gaelic-fluent writers the opportunity to respond to work presented in the language across artforms including literature, performance and music.
The purpose of the fund is to provide grassroots live music venues in Scotland with the funds to prevent closure and stabilise them.
Support for creative freelancers working in the arts and creative sector who are experiencing immediate financial hardship due to the loss of income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development is now closed. The National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations is an updated version of this fund.
Open Project Funding was launched in 2014 and was updated with new guidance in 2015/16, and again in August 2019. This section contains access to the original guidance and help materials that covered the fund from launch until 2019.
This page contains details of the Open Project Fund, which was updated in August 2019 and which ran until March 2020 - when it was closed as a result of the COVID19 pandemic.
A fund designed to support performing arts venues that cannot yet re-open due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
We invite representatives from the arts and creative industries to join us on a funded research trip to Birmingham in April 2019 to explore innovative solutions to flexible childcare.
This fund is to enable cultural organisations, working primarily for public benefit, to rebuild and create opportunities to increase their financial resilience after the COVID-19 pandemic.
This fund is aimed at nurturing the ambition, enthusiasm and talent of exceptional young artists engaged in traditional music and dance - with a priority focus on piping, drumming, Highland dance and traditional fiddle playing.
This fund is aimed at nurturing the ambition, enthusiasm and talent of exceptional young artists engaged in traditional music and dance - with a priority focus on piping, drumming, Highland dance and traditional fiddle playing.
In partnership with British Council Scotland, Creative Scotland supported this fund to invite proposals from the Scottish arts sector to undertake projects with European countries. Considering the changing context within the EU, the fund aimed to support the sector with strengthening or establishing new relationships and networks and enable a variety of activity.
See Learn Share is a small fund to enable freelance artists or creative learning staff in arts organisations to spend time working with people from another sector, observing work and discussing, exploring or testing ideas.
This program aims to develop the practice of a group of chairs for Scottish literature events, and also aims to increase diversity in the pool of skilled event chairs.
This fund supports creative businesses, representatives of organisations and individuals in Scotland who are looking for ways to improve their future business sustainability. It offers small grants for the research time needed to investigate a project, idea or another business and then share this learning to peers here in Scotland.
£3m has been allocated to support youth arts and ensure creative opportunities for children and young people continue to exist across Scotland despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
