This new fund seeks to increase the diversity of people in the arts, screen and creative industries. Developmental funding available for individuals and organisations.<\/p>\n
Creative Scotland\u2019s reports \u2018Understanding Diversity in the Arts\u2019 and \u2018Equality Matters\u2019 highlighted numerous and complex barriers to access, progression and representation in the arts, screen and creative industries.<\/p>\n
These reports indicated that career progression is far from a level playing field. Challenges are more acutely felt by women, people with parental responsibilities, disabled people and those from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Lack of connections, social structures and networks also featured highly as a barrier, with many mentioning the importance of informal networks in securing work or getting noticed.<\/p>\n
The Equality Analysis of our 2018-21 Regularly Funded Organisations (RFO) programme also highlighted a reduction in the number of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion-led organisations supported through the RFO programme and a reduction in a focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programming. Additionally, there were no new applications from Equality, Diversity and Inclusion led organisations.<\/p>\n
This fund aims to start addressing some of these well documented concerns and increase the diversity of people in the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland.<\/p>\n
This fund will seek to prioritise applications from individuals who self\u2013identify as sharing one or more protected characteristics defined by the Equality Act 2010; or from groups\/organisations which are either minority-led or which focus on working with and for those who share one or more protected characteristics.<\/p>\n
There are no minimum and maximum limits on how much you can apply for, and our intention is to award funding at the levels requested by applicants. We expect to support between 12 and 20 applications, depending on the level of demand, and the Fund has a total budget of \u00a3285,000 for 2019\/20.<\/p>\n
This fund is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland. If you have any objections to receiving funding from this source \u2013 for example some applicants do not wish to receive money from sources of gambling \u2013 then please tell us and if successful we can arrange for the funding to come from other sources.<\/p>\n
Location: All Scotland<\/p>\n
For further information, please contact enquiries@creativescotland.com<\/a> (enquiries@creativescotland.com), or visit https:\/\/www.creativescotland.com\/funding\/funding-programmes\/targeted-funding\/createinclusion<\/a><\/p>\n The deadline is Thursday 04 April 2019 at 23:59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This new fund seeks to increase the diversity of people in the arts, screen and creative industries. Developmental funding available for individuals and organisations. Creative Scotland\u2019s reports \u2018Understanding Diversity in the Arts\u2019 and \u2018Equality Matters\u2019 highlighted numerous and complex barriers to access, progression and representation in the arts, screen and creative industries. These reports indicated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}