Annual Review 2019/20
This Annual Review covers the financial year 2019-20, ending in March 2020 as the effects of the pandemic started to be felt by Scotland’s creative sectors. What followed, in the interests of public health, were restrictions on presenting work, venues closing, and many artists and creative practitioners losing their ability to produce work and earn, overnight.
We are very grateful to those organisations who have provided retrospective data for this Review, despite the huge challenges of 2020. All of those organisations have been addressing more important priorities presented by the pandemic, including dramatically reduced staffing and capacity. Nevertheless, this Review will serve as a record of the year before the impact of Covid-19 and as a baseline measure of the strength of the sector as we, hopefully, move into recovery in 2021 and beyond.
View and download the Annual Review of Performance 2019/20 in PDF format.
Our work is based on a set of ambitions and priorities that provide a focus for our work and reflects what we want to achieve. We have five shared ambitions for the arts, screen and creative industries over the next 10 years:
- Excellence and experimentation across the arts, screen and creative industries is recognised and valued
- Everyone can access and enjoy artistic and creative experiences
- Places and quality of life are transformed through imagination, ambition and an understanding of the potential of creativity
- Ideas are brought to life by a diverse, skilled and connected leadership and workforce
- Scotland is a distinctive creative nation connected to the world.
We’ve gathered together a selection of short profiles from 2019/20 to highlight some of the key projects and activities delivered by individuals and organisations, linked to our ambitions.
Underpinning all our work is a strong commitment to the importance of creativity to the lives of the people of Scotland and this is supported through communications activity under the banner of #CreativityMatters.
We support individuals and organisations across Scotland to develop and produce high quality work, both through funding and by helping them to create time and space to develop their practice. Our ambition is that excellence and experimentation across the arts, screen and creative industries are recognised and valued.
We are committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for people of all ages to experience and learn from the arts, screen and creative industries, wherever they are in Scotland. The second of our 10-year Ambitions is that everyone can access and enjoy artistic and creative experiences.
We work in partnership with Local Authorities and others to embed creativity and culture in communities and ensure locally distinctive work is valued and encouraged. Places and quality of life are transformed through imagination, ambition and an understanding of the potential of creativity.
We work to support the development of sustainable business models in the arts, screen and creative industries and to strengthen the talent and skills needed to develop sustainable careers through sectoral partnerships.
Creative Scotland operates in a broader national and international context, working closely with our partners to provide leadership and advocacy for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. The fifth of our 10-year Ambitions is ensuring that Scotland is a distinctive creative nation connected to the world.
Creative Scotland is committed to providing an effective and efficient service to those we are here to support and to effectively manage the public funds for which we are responsible.
