Funding Criteria
When you apply for funding from Creative Scotland, we’ll ask you to consider six Criteria.
These cover the areas of:
- Quality and Ambition
- Engagement
- Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion
- Environmental Sustainability
- Fair Work
- International
These provide supporting information which will help with some of the questions you’ll be asked in your application.
They reflect Creative Scotland’s Strategic Priorities, the priorities for our funding, and what we want to see happen in the culture and creative sector across all parts of Scotland as a result.
You will not be expected to be able to meet each Criteria fully at application stage. Instead, your application will be considered in full, and not on the basis of any one Criteria or response.
Download our Strategic Framework, and learn more about the Criteria and how they relate to your application.
Strategic Framework
We've established a refreshed Strategic Framework to guide our work. This
Framework is aligned to our formal remit and legislative duties, setting out our
broader aims as well as our priorities for supporting future recovery and renewal of
the arts, screen and creative industries across Scotland.
Download a Plain Text Version of our Strategic Framework.
Funding Criteria
We want to support individuals and organisations across Scotland to develop and deliver high quality work that reflects Scotland’s diversity and distinct identity. Learn more about the Quality Funding Criteria.
We want to ensure that alongside the work we fund is the opportunity for everyone in Scotland to engage with it, wherever they are. Learn more about the Engagement Funding Criteria.
We require those we fund to embed EDI in all aspects of their activity. Learn more about the Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Funding Criteria.
We believe that the culture and creative sector can play a key role in meeting Scotland’s ambitious net zero target. Learn more about the Environmental Sustainability Funding Criteria.
We want people working in the culture and creative sector to have fair access to opportunities, be treated with respect and be paid fairly for the work that they do. Learn more about the Fair Work Funding Criteria.
We want Scotland’s culture and creative sector, and local economies to experience the benefits of high-quality international creative connections. Learn more about the International Funding Criteria.
