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.
The funds are:
- a refreshed National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations, and;
- a new time-limited National Lottery Extended Programme Fund.
Both funds are designed for organisations that are not currently in receipt of Regular Funding.
The refreshed National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations offers funding of between £1,000 and £100,000 for projects or programmes of activity lasting up to 18 months. Applications can be made at any time, with no deadlines.
The National Lottery Extended Programme Fund offers funding of between £100,000 and £200,000 for programmes of creative activity lasting between 18 and 24 months. Applications can be made at any time, right up until the deadline for the fund in November 2023.
Iain Munro, CEO of Creative Scotland commented: “It’s thanks to National Lottery players that we can launch these two new funds, enabling cultural and creative organisations to deliver their work across Scotland. Offering funding for a broad range of projects in terms of scale and duration these new funds will enable longer term planning of creative programmes. These funds mark an important step in the delivery of our new approach to funding for organisations, as part of the roll-out of our revised Funding Framework.”
Applications for both funds can be submitted through our online portal.
Full guidance for both Funds is published today, alongside information on our updated funding criteria which reflect our strategic priorities.
The timescales associated with these Funds fit with the planned implementation of our new approach to Multi-Year Funding, which we aim to open for applications later this year and have funding awards in place from April 2025. A further update on the new Multi-Year Funding approach, including timescales, will be published in March.
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