Press Releases

£195,000 National Lottery funding is empowering Scotland’s LGBTQIA+ voices to share their stories in the latest round of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund awards.

New funds are available from today, Tuesday 23 May, to help groups and organisations increase and improve participatory arts and mental health provision in Scotland’s local communities. 

One of 85 creative projects receiving over £2.2 million National Lottery funding in this latest round of Creative Scotland’s Open Fund 

Sign up to the online event on  Monday 24 April, 10:00-16:30   

Civic Digits is working with groups of young people in Edinburgh in a project opening up discussions about the impact of online ‘Incel’ culture 

Piano Project CIC makes a welcome return post-pandemic thanks to The National Lottery’s Awards for All funding. 

Locals are enjoying an enhanced audio/visual experience at Applecross Community Hall thanks to National Lottery Awards for All funding. 

Project takes inspiration from the country’s most loved storytellers

Lagareh–The Last Born draws focus on anti-racist and pro-black advocacy, and Scotland’s historic connections to transatlantic slave trade 

The free screening is part of a 6 venue Scottish tour &  
comes ahead of major solo show at National Galleries of Scotland 

We warmly welcome the announcement today as the Scottish Parliament considered the Scottish Government’s 2023/24 Budget.

This announcement reverses the £6.6m reduction proposed in the Draft Budget, in December last year, and restores our Grant-in-Aid budget to £63m.

The Board of Creative Scotland will now consider what this change means for our own Budget for 2023/24, and its implications for the funding we provide.

A further announcement will be made in due course.

Robert Wilson, Chair of Creative Scotland said: “Alongside the Board and Staff, I am very pleased to see this announcement about the Scottish Government’s budget. It follows a great deal of work from Creative Scotland in setting out the impact and implications of the proposed budget reduction, and the enormously valuable advocacy work from people and organisations across Scotland’s culture sector and beyond. The Board will now consider what this means for our budget and our funding in 2023/24 and we will announce more on this as soon as possible.”

As part of our ongoing work to reshape our funding approach, Creative Scotland today, 15 February, launches two new funds, supported by The National Lottery.

Lagareh – The Last Born draws focus on anti-racist and pro-black advocacy, and Scotland’s historic connections to transatlantic slave trade 

The free screening is part of a 6 venue Scottish tour & comes ahead of major solo show at National Galleries of Scotland