There are a wide variety of support options for creative businesses in Scotland, from funding advice to development resources.
Below, you find links to agencies and organisations, with more information on how they work.
Offers Scotland-wide general support, with one-to-one local advice, an advanced business development programme, events and workshops. There's also a bank of online resources, which include free market research and market reports.
Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's national economic development agency and a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise is the Scottish Government's economic and community development agency, which aims to develop sustainable economic growth across the region.
Helps foster dynamic relationships between business and the arts to enable Scotland to benefit from a vibrant cultural community.
The conference and showcase take place over two days in Inverness. It's the only festival of its kind in Scotland covering craft, fashion and textiles; writing and publishing; screen and broadcast; digital and technology and music, and all elements of XpoNorth are free.
Creative Edinburgh unites creative thinkers across the city. Through events, career support and advocacy, they bring together and help grow the city’s creative community, providing a space for creation, collaboration and connection.
Creative Dundee supports creative talent to base, grow and sustain their practice in and around Dundee, by connecting and amplifying the city’s creativity.
Creative Stirling supports and develops creativity in the area, and acts and has 'become a known and trusted place where people would connect and be able to participate in artist-led projects and creative workshop'.
CABN - Creative Arts Business Network, supports the professional creative sector in the Scottish Borders, with a focus on creative micro-businesses across all artforms.
Working with Robert Gordon University and SMART Arts Agency, the Look Again organisation developed the Cultivate pilot programme which sought to develop and support the Creative Industries community in the North East of Scotland.
Dumfries and Galloway Unlimited represents the collective strengths of Dumfries and Galloway's creative sector and other key stakeholders.
Designed to maximise the potential of your business, our intensive accelerator programmes encourage ambitious pre-start and existing businesses to take their ideas to the next level, discovering potential growth and investment opportunities.
A member-driven community, designed to help creative people grow cool businesses in an authentic and empathic way.