Starcatchers is offering professional development bursaries worth £200 for artists in Scotland who work with and for babies and young children 0-5. This resource can support any form of professional development that can be undertaken within the limitations currently placed on all of us. This might be research, time spent in (remote) discussion with other […]

We want to celebrate all the big and small ways you’ve been making it through the last few weeks indoors – to raise money to fight homelessness. Made at Home is a fundraising book, harnessing the explosion of domestic creativity to help people facing homelessness during the coronavirus. We’ve been baking, sewing, doodling, writing, crafting […]

Over the past year or two Mudchutney have been working with a number of folk bands providing them with a print on demand service, and enabling them – at no financial risk or outlay – to sell shirts and hoodies to their fans.  They don’t need to stump up any cash whatsoever, but through Mudchutney can […]

Introducing our 2020 PERFORMANCES AWARD The GDMT are here to help. If you are a self-employed, professional Scottish musician who has limited savings; please consider applying for a GDMT award if you require financial assistance during this extremely difficult time. Please visit our website for full details on how to apply. https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/get-funded/2020-awards/ If you would […]

What is the 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. What do I win? The entries will be judged by a panel of well-known and highly regarded musicians and industry professionals, including […]

Make Music Day 2020 is going digital! To help with this unexpected change we’re looking for an exceptional Digital Producer to join our team from mid-April. MAKE MUSIC DAY 2020 – DIGITAL CELEBRATION Make Music Day is a grassroots festival where musicians, communities, venues and businesses collaborate to celebrate music on 21 June around the […]

Creative Scotland has launched three funding programmes designed to provide further support to sustain the country’s creative community during the COVID-19 outbreak: A Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund will help sustain creative practice by freelance creative professionals who have lost earnings due to the cancelation of work as a result of COVID-19. A parallel Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund will provide similar one-off bursary support to self-employed screen sector workers The Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development will provide support for individuals and organisations to sustain […]

Today Help Musicians has launched the Coronavirus Financial Hardship Fund, a new offering specifically created to alleviate some of the immediate financial pressures that many professional musicians may currently be facing. The impact of the Coronavirus on musicians’ lives and careers is unprecedented, and it’s been recognised that the charity’s normal person-centred approach of Health & […]

As your Chief Executive – and with our wider PRS Team – we wanted to make sure we are supporting you through these difficult and unusual times. Over the last month we’ve heard from a number of you struggling to make ends meet and we want to help. We’ve come together with our partners at […]

This information is changing all the time so keep up with the latest info here. A message from our Chief Executive I can fully appreciate the increasing anxiety and uncertainty the spread of Covid-19 creates for all of us, as individuals, for our families and friends, as well as in relation to the work we […]