Details of the recipients of the Youth Arts Access Fund and Nurturing Talent Fund: New Routes were announced on Thursday 18 February.
The overall £3m Youth Arts Fund has largely been provided to enhance the existing Youth Music Initiative programme (YMI) managed by Creative Scotland. The YMI Access to Music Making fund is an established strand of the annual YMI programme creating access to high-quality music-making for children and young people aged 0-25 years. This Access Fund builds on Access to Music Making to use the new Youth Arts Fund to support an increased range of music-making projects, as well as introducing projects which deliver across wider art form areas.
We welcome applications proposing any activity that will achieve the outcomes on Page 5 of the guidance document. Examples of activities that we might support include (but are not limited to) the following:
These funds will support artist led activity based in and outwith school hours that aligns with the fund’s priorities.
We will prioritise applications that propose specific actions and partnerships to tackling inequality by engaging at least one of the following groups of children and young people who:
Applications can come from organisations and individuals based in Scotland or who are delivering programmes within Scotland for the benefit of the people of Scotland.
Organisations already in receipt of Regular Funding from Creative Scotland can apply but should discuss their intention to apply with their lead officer in the first instance.
Applications will not be accepted from:
In addition, this fund will not support applications which propose to create permanent full-time or part-time posts.
The overall budget for this fund will be at least £1.2m with at least £800k for youth music and £400k for wider youth arts.
Applicants can apply for between £5k to £30k, to deliver projects for up to 1 year.
All applicants can apply for 100% of their proposed programme but the addition of partnership funding and in kind contributions are welcomed.
You can download the application form for this fund below.
Alongside your application you are also required to submit a budget and the risk assessment (templates for both provided below).
The planned timetable for the fund is as follows:
Publication of fund guidance, and application form: Thursday 17 September 2020
Deadline for Applications: Midnight, Thursday 12 November 2020
Notify all applicants of decisions: Tuesday 9 February 2021
Funded activity to begin: From March 2021
If any of these dates change, we will notify all applicants as soon as possible.
If you need more information please contact our Enquiries Service using one of the methods outlined on our Contact Us page.