Three-year Regular Funding
awarded to 116 organisations
Regular Funding 2018-21, will deliver three-year funding to a range and breadth of cultural and creative organisations across Scotland
116 organisations in the 2018-21 Regular Funding network
Including 19 organisations new to the network
The network demonrates creative excellence, potential and ambition, with significant reach across Scotland, and internationally, and across many areas of practice
The network consists of organisations that produce, present and distribute work as well as development organisations which will support the arts and creative sectors in Scotland to strengthen their future health and resilience
Following the welcome Scottish Government draft budget settlement, which enables the existing budget to be maintained, the network is supported entirely through Scottish Government Grant in Aid funding of £99m in total, over three years, underpinned by an exceptional three-year budget commitment
Plans also announced for a new strategic Touring Fund, with support from the National Lottery, operational in 2019, to support performing arts touring, offering a further alternative route to funding, alongside Open Project Funding and other Targeted Funds.
CREATIVE Scotland is today, Thursday 25 January 2018, pleased to announce the network of organisations that will receive Regular Funding for the three-year period, April 2018 to March 2021, following the conclusion of an open application process, full details here.
The network consists of 116 organisations, of which 19 are new and 97 continue with three-year funding, supported by £99m Grant in Aid funding through a three-year commitment from the Scottish Government, as set out in the recent draft budget statement.
The network demonstrates creative excellence, potential and ambition, with significant reach throughout Scotland, and internationally, and across many areas of creative practice including craft, dance, literature, music, screen, theatre and visual art.
The Regular Funding network consists of organisations that produce, present and distribute work; as well as development organisations which support the arts and creative sectors in Scotland to strengthen their future health and resilience.
Today, in response to recent strategic reviews of both Theatre and Touring; Creative Scotland also announce plans to create a new £2m Touring Fund in 2019/20, with support from the National Lottery, to support performing arts organisations in reaching more audiences in more parts of Scotland.
Organisations in the 2018-21 network, in turn, also support artists and creative practitioners across the country, in terms of employment and generating opportunities for public participation.
Support for creative learning and young people; Gaelic and Scots language; and traditional arts are also embedded into the network of 2018-21 Regularly Funded organisations, with a spread of activity across Scotland’s places and communities.
Janet Archer, chief executive of Creative Scotland, said: “I am pleased to announce the network of Regularly Funded organisations for 2018-21. This follows a welcome settlement from the Scottish Government in the recent draft budget enabling us to maintain the existing budget for Regular Funding.
“Regular funding provides three-year funding to a wide range of organisations which create, present and support excellence across craft, dance, literature, music, screen, theatre and visual arts, reaching out to all parts of Scotland and internationally.
“The network has been arrived at through a careful and thorough decision-making process involving staff across Creative Scotland and our Board. Regular Funding is a highly competitive application process where demand has once again, far outstripped available funding. While we can’t support everyone, we seek to provide a range of different opportunities to access support across all of our funding routes, including Open Project and Targeted Funding.
“With this in mind, we are developing a new £2m Touring Fund for 2019/20, with support from the National Lottery, as part of our Targeted Funds. This will support touring companies to work with venues to grow audiences, offering a further alternative route to funding for performing arts organisations not included in the Regular Funding network.”
Some key facts about the network include:
- Overall budget of just over £99m
- 116 organisations, 19 of which are new to Regular Funding and 97 continue on three-year funding
- Representation across craft, dance, literature, music, screen, theatre, and visual art
- A range of development organisations that will help strengthen future health and resilience of the arts and creative sectors
- Support for young people and creative learning in this Year of Young People, 2018
- Strong representation for Gaelic, Scots and Trad arts
- Geographical coverage across all parts of Scotland.
Regular Funding is one of three routes to funding through Creative Scotland, alongside Open Project Funding for individuals and organisations, and Targeted Funding.
All organisations who have previously benefitted from Regular Funding, but who are not part of the 2018-21 network, will be offered transition funding for 6 months to the end of September 2018.
Five touring Theatre companies who are not recommended for the Network 2018-21, will receive 12 months’ transition funding to take current funding levels to the end of March 2019. These organisations are Mischief La Bas, Catherine Wheels, Fire Exit, Rapture Theatre and Visible Fictions.
Details of the network of Regularly Funded Organisations and other routes to funding can be found on our website at http://www.creativescotland.com/
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Notes to editors:
- The network of Regularly Funded Organisations
Organisations awarded Regular Funding for the three-year period, April 2018 – March 2021
* = new to Regular Funding for 2018-21
| Organisation | Regular Funding 2018-21 – three years (£) |
| 21CC (21 Common)* | 245,972 |
| A Play, A Pie and A Pint (Glasgow Lunchtime Theatres) | 450,000 |
| Aberdeen Performing Arts | 1,000,000 |
| Alchemy Film and Arts* | 348,462 |
| An Lanntair | 1,210,000 |
| Arika | 600,000 |
| Arts and Business Scotland* | 600,000 |
| ATLAS Arts | 450,000 |
| Barrowland Ballet | 604,845 |
| Beacon Arts Centre | 600,000 |
| Bodysurf Scotland* | 586,277 |
| CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts | 1,920,000 |
| Celtic Connections Festival | 550,000 |
| Centre for the Moving Image | 3,200,000 |
| Citizens Theatre | 3,333,000 |
| Citymoves Dance Agency | 300,000 |
| Collective | 850,000 |
| Comar | 1,250,000 |
| Common Guild | 540,000 |
| Conflux Scotland | 450,000 |
| Cove Park | 399,000 |
| Craft Scotland | 1,000,000 |
| Creative Carbon Scotland* | 450,000 |
| Creative Dundee* | 332,031 |
| Creative Edinburgh* | 284,000 |
| Cryptic | 850,000 |
| Cumbernauld Theatre Trust | 800,000 |
| Curious Seed | 396,955 |
| Dance Base | 1,225,000 |
| Deveron Projects | 330,000 |
| Drake Music Scotland | 380,000 |
| Dundee Contemporary Arts | 2,000,000 |
| Dundee Repertory Theatre | 5,945,010 |
| Eden Court Theatre and Cinema | 1,500,000 |
| Edinburgh Art Festival | 300,000 |
| Edinburgh International Book Festival | 919,500 |
| Edinburgh International Festival Society | 6,952,000 |
| Edinburgh Printmakers | 480,000 |
| Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop | 700,000 |
| Enterprise Music Scotland | 675,000 |
| Federation of Scottish Theatre* | 795,000 |
| Fèis Rois | 690,000 |
| Fèisean nan Gàidheal | 1,400,000 |
| Fife Contemporary | 315,000 |
| Fruitmarket Gallery | 2,000,000 |
| Gaelic Books Council | 620,000 |
| Glasgow Film | 1,900,000 |
| Glasgow International | 300,000 |
| Glasgow Print Studios | 480,000 |
| Glasgow Sculpture Studios | 530,000 |
| Glasgow Women’s Library | 359,968 |
| Grid Iron Theatre Company | 673,200 |
| Hands Up for Trad | 400,000 |
| Highland Print Studio | 300,000 |
| Horsecross Arts | 1,600,000 |
| Hospitalfield Trust | 300,000 |
| Imaginate | 1,095,000 |
| Indepen-dance | 346,000 |
| Luminate | 300,000 |
| Lyra* | 300,000 |
| Macrobert Arts Centre | 950,000 |
| Magnetic North Theatre Productions* | 300,000 |
| Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre | 405,000 |
| National Piping Centre | 450,000 |
| National Youth Choir of Scotland | 600,000 |
| National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) | 650,000 |
| NEoN (North East of North)* | 271,000 |
| North East Arts Touring | 250,000 |
| North Lands Creative Glass | 650,000 |
| Panel* | 270,584 |
| Paragon Ensemble | 315,000 |
| Peacock Visual Arts | 770,000 |
| Pier Arts Centre | 800,000 |
| Pitlochry Festival Theatre | 1,275,000 |
| Platform (Glasgow East Arts Co) | 381,000 |
| Playwrights Studio, Scotland | 575,806 |
| Project Ability | 430,000 |
| Publishing Scotland | 923,500 |
| Puppet Animation Scotland | 551,000 |
| Red Note Ensemble | 645,000 |
| Regional Screen Scotland | 620,350 |
| Royal Lyceum Theatre Company | 3,630,000 |
| Scottish Book Trust | 2,579,792 |
| Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN)* | 387,000 |
| Scottish Ensemble | 1,000,000 |
| Scottish Music Centre | 570,000 |
| Scottish Music Industry Association* | 500,000 |
| Scottish National Jazz Orchestra | 650,000 |
| Scottish Poetry Library | 902,500 |
| Scottish Sculpture Workshop | 585,000 |
| Shetland Arts Development Agency | 750,000 |
| Solar Bear | 600,000 |
| St Magnus International Festival | 500,000 |
| Starcatchers Production* | 300,000 |
| Stellar Quines Theatre Company | 409,333 |
| Stills: Centre for Photography* | 441,000 |
| Stove Network Limited | 300,000 |
| Street Level Photoworks (Glasgow Photography Group) | 441,000 |
| Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust | 305,000 |
| The Barn | 400,000 |
| Theatre Gu Leòr* | 420,000 |
| Timespan | 285,000 |
| Tinderbox Collective* | 300,000 |
| Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre* | 180,000 |
| Touring Network (Highlands & Islands) | 360,000 |
| Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland | 940,000 |
| Tramway | 1,050,000 |
| Travelling Gallery | 380,000 |
| Traverse Theatre | 2,600,000 |
| Tron Theatre | 2,540,050 |
| Vanishing Point Theatre Company | 850,000 |
| Voluntary Arts Scotland | 390,000 |
| Wigtown Festival Company | 258,000 |
| Work Room | 465,000 |
| Y Dance (Scottish Youth Dance) | 550,000 |
| Youth Theatre Arts Scotland | 400,000 |
2. The decision-making process
The Regular Funding programme opened on 16 January 2017, with a deadline for applications of 3 April 2017. The Network of Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) is announced on 25 January 2018.
The timings allowed for both application and assessment were in response to feedback from both the sector and our Staff after the previous application round in 2014
Note: Our original intention was to announce decisions in Autumn 2017, however, the timing of both the UK and Scottish Government budgets meant that final decisions needed to be delayed until January 2017, once Creative Scotland’s budget settlement was known (in December 2017).
There has been a careful and thorough five-stage decision making process
- Stage 1 – Checks for eligibility and completeness
- Stage 2 – Objective assessments (Specialism Officers)
- Stage 3 – Specialism scenario planning (Specialism Teams)
- Stage 4 – All eligible applications were discussed in the round by the senior team at Creative Scotland, including specialism and art form leads, with the aim of building a balanced network of regularly funded organisations across the arts, screen and creative industries, geography, scale and diversity within our available budget.
- Stage 5 – Board decision
We also undertook an Equality Impact Assessment of the Regular Funding application, assessment and decision-making process.
In the application process, all organisations needed to clearly demonstrate clearly their vision and purpose and how their work helps to deliver our first two ambitions: ‘excellence and experimentation’ and ‘access and enjoyment’.
In addition, organisations were asked to demonstrate how their work contributed to Creative Scotland’s connecting themes; to the broader development of the sector; commitment to fair pay; that they have effective governance and leadership in place; that they are financially resilient and robust; and that they have a commitment to EDI.
Detailed and clear guidance is available here.
3. Strategic Touring Fund
Alongside the announcement of the Regular Funding Network, 2018-21, Creative Scotland has also announced the creation of a strategic Touring Fund, supported by the National Lottery, which will be one of our Targeted Funds for 2019/20, to support touring companies to work with venues to grow audiences.
This fund will support projects from April 2019 with a provisional budget of £2m, will be open to performing arts organisations and will provide those performing arts organisations not included in the Regular Funding Network with a further potential source of funding support, alongside Open Project funding and other Targeted funds
This approach reflects the recommendations made in 2016’s review of the challenges facing touring of theatre and dance in Scotland and subsequent work led by the Federation of Scottish Theatre and other performing arts organisations.
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