Young Scot and Creative Scotland launch a new £40,000 Nurturing Talent – Time to Shine Fund for young people aged 14 – 20 years old.

The funding, which is being administered by Young Scot over the next two years, will be awarded to those who demonstrate ambition, enthusiasm or talent in their chosen art form and require some financial support to develop or promote this further.

Individual awards of up to £200 or group awards of up to £750 are available for endeavours such as auditioning, training, staging an exhibition, recording a demo, publishing written work, hosting a workshop or setting up a local group.

The next deadlines for applications are:

◾7 December 2014

◾8 February 2015

◾12 April 2015.

For further information and application forms visit youngscot.org/timetoshine.