YMI Funding Opportunities

Creative Scotland have announced two new funding streams under the YMI programme , Access to Music Making and Access to Music Making.

The funds are open to all arts organisations and music educationalists and including tutors and freelancers. The funds are not open for applications from schools, PTAs or local authorities

Access to Music Making

The purpose of the fund is to create access to high quality, music-making opportunities for children and young people aged 0-25 years. The fund is now open for applications. and is offering grants between £1-30k for up to 1 year of activity. Creative Scotland will be running a funding support session on 11 August to support potential applicants with the new online application process.

https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/targeted-funding/youth-music-initiative/access-to-music-making

Strengthening Youth Music

The fund is also open for applications. The purpose of the fund is to improve the youth music sector infrastructure and services on offer for the benefit of children and young people. The fund is also open for applications and supports grants between £1-20k for up to 1 year of activity. Creative Scotland will be running a funding support session on 11 August to support potential applications with the new online process

https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/targeted-funding/youth-music-initiative/strengthening-youth-music

January 8, 2021January 28, 2021

Small Grants Fund award

Small Grants Fund

The Creative Learning Network, which sits within the Education department has been successful in their application to deliver the Small Grants Fund on behalf of Creative Scotland. The £50,000 programme will support local musicians and artists to lead activities in music, visual art or moving image. The projects will take place in our schools and youth groups during 2021, with a focus on young people who often miss out on creative activities.

Working in partnership with YouthBorders and supporting local community priorities, the programme will fund around 10 projects across our 5 locality areas.

The Creative Learning Officer stated that ‘The fund will our young people to create and be creative; through a hands-on, practical approach, that reinforces confidence and develops their own voice through the arts and music. We hope the workshops will also encourage the young people to keep up their creative activity beyond the life of the projects, supporting positive wellbeing’

SBC is the only organisation in the south of Scotland to have secured this programme. We will promote the fund early in the New Year and work with YouthBorders to assess which projects to support. The programme will complement work delivered under the Education department’s Youth Music Initiative and YouthBorders YouthWork Recovery projects.

March 29, 2020March 31, 2020

Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund

On Friday 27 March Creative Scotland launched THREE new funds; a Bridging Bursary Fund for individuals in immediate need which is simple and non-competitive, Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund, and a repurposed Open Project Fund: Sustaining Creative Development.

“Our aim is that these changes will enable individuals and organisations to sustain their creative work and practice in these extremely challenging times.”

The new COVID-19 Impact Funds

The Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund will provide financial support for individual creative practitioners and/or freelancers who are most deeply impacted and disadvantaged by the cancellation of work due to the COVID-19 emergency to sustain their creative practice in Scotland.

The £2 million fund will offer one-off bursary payments of between £500 and £2,500 to help support the immediate needs. Applications to this fund opened on Monday 30 March.

A £1.5million Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary programme will provide one-off bursaries of £500 to £2,500 to freelance PAYE and self-employed screen sector workers who are experiencing immediate financial difficulty due to loss of income as a result of the Covid-19. Applications to this fund opened on Monday 30 March.

The Open Funding: Sustaining Creative Development (a revised approach to the organisation’s Open Project Fund) will support individuals and organisations to continue to develop work in the coming months. Applicants will be encouraged to use funding to explore how best to sustain their practice, and reimagine their work, during the current climate and in the months to come. Funds may also be used for the development and presentation of work. The £7.5m fund will support up to 12 months of activity with a maximum award of £50,000. Applications to the fund will open on Friday 3 April.

Visit the website for all the details: http://www.creativescotland.com/covid-funds

For any queries, contact: enquiries@creativescotland.com

November 29, 2019December 6, 2019

YMI Access Fund and Strengthening Youth Music Fund

Creative Scotland have launched the 2019/20 funding round for the community based YMI Access to Music-Making and Strengthening Youth Music Funds.

You can read our post about the three parts of the YMI fund here.

The application deadline is very short, the 13th January, but both funds are worth looking at. Below are the summaries of the two funds.

Access to Music-Making fund supports access to high-quality music-making opportunities for young people aged 0-25 years outwith school time. It is open to organisations and individuals based in Scotland or who are delivering programmes within Scotland, with grants between £1k – £40k for up to two years.

Strengthening Youth Music fund is to improve the youth music sector infrastructure and the services that organisers offer. Supporting strategic action, research or training that will strengthen the youth music sector in Scotland. It is not to support project delivery directly with young people. Both organisations and individuals can apply, with grants between £1k – £20k for up to two years. You need to be based in Scotland or delivering programmes within Scotland.

For more details and forms visit the Creative Scotland website.