Press Releases

28  grassroots music venues in Glasgow, including King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and Oran Mor, have received emergency funds through the Scottish Government’s Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund. 

Five grassroots music venues in Dundee, including Beat Generator Live! and Church Dundee, have received emergency funds through the Scottish Government’s  Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund. 

17 grassroots music venues in Edinburgh and West Lothian, including Sneaky Pete’s, Summerhall and The Jazz Bar, have received emergency funds through the Scottish Government’s Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund. 

Six grassroots music venues in Aberdeen, including The Blue Lamp and The Tunnels, have received emergency funds through the Scottish Government’s Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund. 

Four venues in the Highlands and Islands, including Portree's Aros Centre, have received emergency funds through the Scottish Government’s Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund.

From Melrose to Kirkwall, Portree to Kirkcaldy, 72 venues across Scotland have received a total of £2.2million through the Scottish Government’s Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund through Creative Scotland. 

Details are announced today of the first two funds of a £3million Scottish Government emergency funding package designed to ensure creative opportunities for children and young people continue across Scotland in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Culture Organisations and Venues Recovery Fund launches, alongside updates on other emergency funds

Applications open Monday 14 September 2020 

Independent Cinema Recovery and Resilience Fund launches, alongside delivery plans for further emergency funds 

Applications open at 12 noon on Wednesday 26 August 2020 

Eden Court and An Lanntair are amongst twenty venues to have received support from the first strand of the Scottish Government’s £12.5m Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund, through Creative Scotland.