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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 […]

Hi everyone, Someone got in touch this week to flag up Turn2Us https://www.turn2us.org.uk/ and the Elizabeth Finn Fund https://carers.org/article/elizabeth-finn-fund-turn2us. Two organisations that may be able to help in hard times like this. This post was originally published on our Distil website.

Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing organisation have launched a new website https://singing.luminatescotland.org/ – and there are a couple of things that they are particularly keen to spread the word about. 1. There will soon be an online search tool and map to enable people to find a dementia inclusive singing group or choir near them (it’s […]

Hello! I’m getting in touch with an offer of help to my musician pals and their pals who have suddenly found their income streams disappear for the foreseeable future. I’m in a similar position with Braw Wee Emporium, where about 50% of my income is from creative workshops and not to many folk shopping online […]

So with everything going on at the moment how can we get our music out there and earn some money? We’ve all heard of Skype lessons so if you find your teaching is being cancelled why not check this out. They aren’t difficult. The technology is free and you can accept fees through the likes […]

Have you released an album between September 2019 and August 2020? Why not submit your album into our 2020 Album of the Year competition. Our aim is to highlight the trad recording industry and to showcase the large amount of albums that are released each year in the trad/folk music genre. Anyone can add an album – just fill in the form […]

Fèis Phàislig wishes to appoint a joint Cèilidh Trail Coordinator to accompany and support a group of up to six young musicians participating in training and a summer tour around Renfrewshire and the Central Belt. The Cèilidh Trail scheme is a Fèisean nan Gàidheal development project which gives young musicians and singers aged 16 to […]