Deadline: 08-Feb-2023
Creative Scotland is seeking applications for the Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development which aims to enable organisations to explore ways of working that will help them to adapt and respond to the current changing circumstances.
What the fund supports?
- Creative Scotland is committed to ensuring that people are supported to develop excellence and experimentation in a wide range of arts and creative activity, reflecting Scotland’s diverse and dynamic cultures.
- They want to ensure that the experience of the arts and creative activity benefits as many people as possible across Scotland’s communities and places. They have a key role in ensuring that Scotland’s creative workforce and businesses have opportunities to develop, evolve and flourish.
- This fund is designed to support you to sustain your practice in a changing world. They are asking you to tell us what you want to do, and how it will help you and/or others in the months and years to come.
Funding Information
- The Fund anticipates a total annual budget of around £7.5m across the Open Fund for Individuals and Open Fund for Organisations. This money comes from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
- You can apply for between £1,000 and £100,000, for activity lasting up to 12 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is for organizations and groups based in Scotland whose work or project involves the arts, screen and creative industries – if you are an individual, please apply to the Open Fund for Individuals
- If you are not based in Scotland and wish to apply, you must show how your activity benefits the development of creative practice in Scotland and / or the Scottish public
- If you are a self-employed individual or a sole-trader then you are not eligible to make an application to the Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development. You should look at the other funding programs run by Creative Scotland or partners, including the Open Fund for Individuals.
Ineligible
- Organizations in administration, receivership and liquidation
- Regularly Funded Organizations (RFOs): An RFO can be cited as a partner in an application made by another organization to the Open Fund. RFOs should not be the main beneficiary of the funding or take a lead role.
- Organizations based outside Scotland seeking funding for activity taking place outside Scotland.
- Individuals and Sole Traders should apply to the Open Fund for
- Individuals: Sustaining Creative Development.
For more information visit Creative Scotland.
For more information, visit https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/open-fund-sustaining-creative-development