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.