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Youth Arts Training and Workshops

Creative Scotland’s Youth Arts Training and Workshops are aiming to  support practitioners and organisations build up their skills and knowledge during the Covid-19 recovery period.  The sessions are funded by the Scottish Government’s Youth Arts Fund through with support from Youth Music Initiative and Time to Shine 

 Details and bookings for all the  courses can be found on Eventbrite Youth Arts Fund page.

 

Children in Scotland

Creating Inclusive Settings: Engaging Neurodivergent Young People   – 17 August

Creating Safety: Child Protection Awareness in the Youth Arts Sector – 8 September

Communicating with Children Who Have Experienced Trauma – 28 September

 

Youth Theatre Arts Scotland 

An introductory Evaluation 101 session on 25 August in partnership with Evaluation Support Scotland

A follow-up Evaluation Toolkit course in late September.

Y Dance

Monitoring and Evaluation  23 September 2021 Delivered by Catch the Light

Young People and Arts in Criminal Justice   1 October 2021 , delivered by Glass Performance and YDance

Engaging Youth Voice in Community Projects and Organisations
2 November 2021, delivered by Upstart Projects

Working with Young People with Emotional or Behavioural Needs
25 November 2021, delivered by HL Hall Ltd

Mental Health: Supporting Others
1 December 2021, delivered by SAMH

 Engage Scotland

Two Environmental sustainability sessions this September in partnership with Creative Carbon Scotland. 

Two anti-racism coursesthis September / October in partnership with Intercultural Youth Scotland.

 Imaginate

An anti-racist course this September / October in partnership with Intercultural Youth Scotland.  

 

 

 

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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

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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.

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Borders Youth Music Forum

The Borders Youth Music Forum has been going for a number a years under the project name SoundCycle. Funding and lockdown temporarily halted things for but we held a digital meeting this week via MS Teams to get the forum going again.

 

A good cross section of people attended representing music tutors and  providers, venues, music organisations and brass bands.

 

 

We had input from Kelsey Jubin,  Creative Learning Officer(YMI) at Creative Scotland, who talked to us about current funding opportunities. In summary the funds were the;

  • Targeted Fund for 20 key national organisations
  • Small Grants Fund for artist led activities, opening in January 2021
  • Youth Arts Access fund for individuals and organisations, with a deadline on the 12th of November.

Kelsey also highlighted the Nurturing Talent Fund overseen by Young Scot and a new Hardship Fund opening on the 26th of October. This was open to musicians, craft makers and visual artists and Kelsey suggested visiting  the Help Musicians website for more details.       https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/

See this post for more details about  these funds.

 

Mae Murray from MEPG (Music Education Partnership Group),  talked  about its priorities and the new activities it was undertaking. Its primary roles were to be an advocate for music education, increase opportunities and reduce inequalities, bring together music educators and relevant organisations and to support the sector through training and advice.

Mae highlighted a new report, to be released shortly, about the levels of aerosol release from singing and instrument playing. MEPG also runs a very active youth Forum which is led by the young people.

During lockdown MEPG ran several digital projects including Doorstep Samba, Over the Rainbow, and the Hey Jude, Sunday sessions. Mae then introduced the training sessions that MEPG are going to be delivering over the next few months and details of these will be sent out in a further email. They are all available through Eventbrite and on the new MEPG website www.wemakemusicscotland.org.

Thanks for everyone’s input and we will keep you posted about the next meeting.

 

 

 

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Creative Scotland funding Opportunities

There are a number of funding opportunities currently available from  Creative Scotland.

Youth Arts Funding

  • The Youth Arts Access Fund is open to individuals and organisations for grants of £5-£30k.  It is set up to support for music making and wider youth arts projects with young people, especially vulnerable young people/young people who have been more adversely impact by Covid-19. The deadline 12th November.

 

  • The Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme will be open in January for applications to deliver artist led activities in schools and the community. It gives out grants of between £500 to £5000  with the activities delivered between March 2021 and March 2022.

 

  • The Nurturing Talent Fund is for young people (aged 11-25) to apply to directly, with £50 – £1000 available. The next deadline is 6th December. You can read about some past recipients on the CS website here.

 

  • The Open Project Fund  is open for organisations and individuals in the arts and culture sector; £1k – £100k; open all year round; The fund aims to enable individuals and organisations to explore ways of working that will help them to adapt and respond to the current changing circumstances.

 

 

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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

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‘In Tune with Nature’ composition competition

 

To celebrate Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, artists aged 16+ are invited to write new music inspired by one of ten National Nature Reserves (NNRs) across the country.

The entries will be judged by a panel of well-known and highly regarded musicians and industry professionals, including Julie Fowlis, Vic Galloway, Gill Maxwell and Karine Polwart, and chaired by Fiona Dalgetty. The 10 winning artists will each win a £500 cash prize as well as the opportunity to make a film on the NNR site which inspired their music. The winning artists will be paid for their time on site making the film. There will also be the opportunity to take part in live performances throughout the year.’

The NNRs include;

The new work should reflect the special qualities of the National Nature Reserves, all those selected having strong coastal or freshwater elements. New Gaelic songs are particularly encouraged in the Beinn Eighe and Creag Meagaidh areas and, similarly, songs written in Scots and regional dialects would be warmly received in other areas. Artists should aim to communicate the richness of Scotland’s nature and, through this, encourage new audiences to consider the actions they may take to protect it.

Timescale

  • 1st March 2020 – Competition is launched
  • 31st May 2020 – Closing date for entries
  • 26th June 2020 – Winners announced
  • July – August 2020 – Winning composers/songwriters create films on location at NNRs

Below is a link to the full details,

https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/land-and-sea-management/managing-access-and-recreation/increasing-participation/snh-and-year-coasts-and-waters-2020-ycw2020-1

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YMI Impact report 207/18

YMI Impact Report 2017 /18

The end of project report for the YMI year 2018/819 has just been released. It explores the work of all the funds strands, highlight that during that year at least 240,000 young people took part in YMI activity. This includes at least 195,000 in school based activity and at least 45,000 in out of school activity.

For this year there was a 10% cut in the overall budgets allocated, which led to a 3% drop in participation numbers and the numbers of hours delivered also reduced slightly.

Despite this YMI’s  impact remained very strong and the report  is filled with positive developments and learning experiences. The final section makes some  with some realistic and positive points for consideration.

Below is the document

YMI-Impact-Report-2017.18

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New funding Opportunities

Two funding opportunities  for music have been recently announced.

  • Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Youth Development Fund

The 2020 round of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Youth Development Fund is open for applications. For a third year, the fund aims to nurture the ambition and talent of young people (aged 5-26) engaged in traditional music and dance, specifically in piping, drumming, Highland dance and fiddle playing.

Web page: https://www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/funds-delivered-by-partners/the-royal-edinburgh-military-

 

  • Decca Records Bursary Fund

The Decca Bursary aims to inspire and encourage a new generation of classical musicians and composers. Its mission is to help children afford a classical music education, no matter their financial background. The bursary is supported by funds raised by a team from Decca Records and Universal Music UK who scaled the heights of the UK’s three highest peaks within 24 hours. Grants of a maximum £2,000 will be available to eligible individuals and ensembles, in need of funding for classical music lessons, instruments and courses throughout the UK. Individuals (of school-age), teachers on their behalf, and schools will be able to submit applications.

https://grantfinder.co.uk/archive/90th-anniversary-of-decca-records-bursary-to-launch-in-2020/

Applications for awards will open in the new year.

For further information please contact umuksfdeccabursary@umusic.com

 

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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.

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