THE Stand, The Shed, Cathouse, the Pavilion Theatre, the Hebridean Celtic Festival, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Fubar Stirling, Perth Festival of the Arts, and Tiree Music Festival are just a few of the 203 Scottish organisations and venues benefitting from the £11.75 million in emergency support announced today.
Creative Scotland are delivering grants from the £15m fund to successful applicants across the country.
Since applications were opened on September 17, the Government has received 348 applications for funds totalling over £22m. However, the total budget for the fund is £15m.
Applicants could apply for between £10,000 and £150,000, and up to £250,000 on an exceptional basis.
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Just three venues were awarded the full quarter of a million, Glasgow’s Barrowlands and Oran Mor, and Edinburgh’s The Stand.
Elsewhere, Aberdeen’s Epic Group, which runs The Ministry, Paramount, and The Priory, has been awarded £100,000. Dundee’s Tin Roof will receive £11,000, and the Highland’s Elephant Sessions £10,000.
The full list can be seen on Creative Scotland’s website.
With applications now closed, the Government will be contacting the remaining 145 hopeful organisations and venues “within the next two weeks”.
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: “The Scottish Government is determined to do everything within our powers to see the sector through this crisis.
“This emergency funding will provide vital support to a wide range of cultural organisations and venues across Scotland currently facing extreme challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. It has been designed specifically to help organisations cope with the immediate issues they are facing and to help save jobs.
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“I am pleased to see such a wide range of organisations supported, from comedy clubs and theatres to galleries and production companies.”
Iain Munro, the CEO of Creative Scotland, added: “The funds being announced today offer some further welcome support to help protect jobs across a wide range of businesses in Scotland.
“The negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on Scotland‘s creative and cultural sector are clearly ongoing, and we will continue to keep focused, with the Scottish Government and other partners, on helping those people and organisations in most need.”
The full list of recipients of the fund, and the amount each has been given, can be found on Creative Scotland’s website here.
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