Funded Organisations Creative Communities Programme
The programme is supporting 36 community-based charities and a further 10 with seed funding and development support.
Supported Organisations by Local Authority (* indicates organisations receiving seed funding and development support)
Aberdeen City
Peacock Visual Arts in partnership with CFINE Location: Aberdeen Project Description: Distribution of experiential focused creativity packs to young people facing barriers to engagement in arts and cultural activities.
Station House Media Unit (SHMU) in partnership with Aberdeen in Recovery; Families Outside; Aberdeen Cyrenians; Turning Point Aberdeen Location: Aberdeen + HMP Grampian Project Description: Creative arts workshops for adults facing barriers to engaging in cultural activities in Aberdeen regeneration areas & HMP Grampian.
Argyll & Bute
Templar Arts and Leisure Centre Trust Location: Tarbert Project Description: Create a multimedia showcase reel of young people's art and animation, to be screened externally for view by the whole community.
The Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust Location: Isle of Gigha Project Description: Storytelling, photography and theatre to look at how the island’s history has shaped the land and the lives of its people.
Clackmannanshire
* Hillfoots Tales in partnership with TRACS Location: Clackmannanshire Project Description: Sharing the folklore of the local area via storytelling events and workshops.
Resonate Together Location: Clackmannanshire Project Description: Creative arts workshops for people who have encountered barriers and stigma.
Dumfries & Galloway
Better Lives Partnership Location: Castle Douglas and Stranraer Project Description: Professional level creative practice development workshops and an Art Club for autistic young people.
Dundee City
Bethany Christian Trust Location: Menzieshill, Dundee Project Description: Community-wide project to celebrate Menzieshill's people and green spaces
Enable Scotland Location: Dundee Project Description: Digital creativity training around key topics such as animation, gaming, coding and digital security for young disabled people.
Leisure and Culture Dundee Location: Dundee Project Description: A series of community design projects that result in the creation of a community design library to provide resources and training.
City of Edinburgh
Goodtrees Neighbourhood Centre in partnership with DanceBase, Reeltime Location: Craigour/ Moredun, Edinburgh Project Description: Young people learning technical and creative skills to produce digital media content.
Gorgie Collective Location: Gorgie and Dalry, Edinburgh Project Description: Creation of a public sculpture trail and redevelopment of a local green space as an inspiring and colourful meeting place for local people.
Screen Education Edinburgh Location: Granton, Muirhouse, Royston and West Pilton areas of Edinburgh Project Description: Introduction to filmmaking through camera, sound, storytelling, shooting, editing, and interview techniques.
Space and Broomhouse Hub Location: Broomhouse, Edinburgh Project Description: A community street art project for young people aged 11-20.
Stellar Quines Location: Muirhouse, Edinburgh Project Description: A collaborative series of film and theatre workshops to explore the COVID-19 experiences of young women.
East Dunbartonshire
Creative Spark Theatre Arts Location: Kirkintilloch Project Description: People of Kirkintilloch to explore what lockdown has meant for them through music, theatre, visual art and filmmaking.
Eilean Siar
An Lanntair Location: Harris and Lewis Project Description: Online visual arts workshops for people over the age of 60, held in Gaelic and English.
Falkirk
Glass Performance Location: HMYOI Polmont, Falkirk Project Description: Radio production programme for young offenders.
Fife
Kirkcaldy YMCA Location: Gallatown & Templehall, Kirkcaldy Project Description: Music, filmmaking and crafts sessions with peer and group support.
Glasgow City
Clydeside Initiative for Arts in partnership with Govan Housing Association Location: Govan, Glasgow Project Description: Young people developing artistic skills and confidence through large scale street art.
Common Wheel Location: Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow Project Description: A writing and reading programme for the Gartnavel psychiatric hospital community: patients, staff, volunteers, and patient family members.
FARE Location: East End, Glasgow Project Description: Young people will participate in days out and online performances which explore an eclectic mix of art forms.
* GMAC Film Location: Glasgow Project Description: Training young people in film study skills and connecting them to local organisations to create social action film projects.
Glasgow City (cont.)
* Ignite Theatre Location: Knightswood, Glasgow Project Description: Weekly theatre and cultural arts workshops to encourage participation and uncover opportunities for people of colour within the creative arts.
Iranian Scottish Community Group Location: Glasgow Project Description: Tapestry, music and ceramics workshops exploring Scottish and Iranian culture and heritage.
Maryhill Integration Network in partnership with Glasgow Connected Arts Network Location: Maryhill, Glasgow Project Description: Participants will collect and share objects with personal meaning, create art around those objects, and prepare an online exhibition.
Parkhead Housing Association Location: Parkhead Project Description: Creation of a community art garden with seating, landscaping and two new murals adjacent to the existing "Good Wives and Warriors" mural.
Possibilities for Each and Every Kid (PEEK) Location: East End, Glasgow Project Description: East End: Past, Present & Future: a celebratory arts festival enabling different generations and cultures within the community to engage with one another and share new experiences whilst exploring the arts.
Solar Bear Location: Townhead, Glasgow Project Description: Creative writing and storytelling workshops, bringing together care- experienced young people and the elderly.
* Sri Mangala Vinayhar Community Centre Location: Possilpark, Glasgow Project Description: Arts-based classes for young Tamil community to help remove intergenerational barriers.
Stronger Together Enterprise Location: North of Glasgow Project Description: Drama and music classes for children and young people from BAME backgrounds.
* Vox Liminis Location: East End, Glasgow Project Description: Creative exploration of political and social themes among prison- experienced members of the community.
Highland
ATLAS Arts in partnership with Skye Climate Action Location: Skye Project Description: Pilot for an alternative school focused on climate change, bringing together local and international artists, experts and activists.
* Create Inspire Projects CIC Location: Assynt, Garve, Achiltibuie, Dundonnell and Gairloch Project Description: Creative and participatory film, singing and theatre arts workshops for remote communities in the North West.
Lyth Arts Centre Location: Caithness Project Description: Local artists in residence matched with five Caithness communities to co-design a bespoke programme of work exploring local themes and issues.
Inverclyde
Youth Connections in partnership with Access Technology Scotland; Cara Stained Glass Location: Larkfield, Greenock Project Description: Weekly arts activities provided by local artists, culminating in a summer festival.
North Lanarkshire
* Reeltime Music Location: Motherwell Project Description: Develop programmes and partnerships to support justice-experienced young people.
* Sanctuary Scotland in partnership with Firewalker Films Location: Carbrain, Cumbernauld Project Description: Teach documentary filmmaking skills to young people to shift the view of what is possible in Cumbernauld
Perth & Kinross
* Esolperth English Language Lessons Location: Perth Project Description: Music, movement, creative and mindful activities for immigrant community in and around Perth.
PAMIS Location: Aberfeldy Project Description: Use art, drama, music and photography to support children and young people with profound and complex disabilities to tell their own stories.
Renfrewshire
right2dance in partnership with PACE Theatre Company; Erskine Music & Media Studio Location: Paisley Project Description: Families come together to share their stories of Paisley across the generations, and then tell those stories through a multi-arts platform including dance, drama and film.
The Good Shepherd Centre in partnership with The Sound Lab Location: Renfrewshire Project Description: Tuition for young people with experience of secure care to make music and art.
The STAR Project Location: Renfrewshire Project Description: Virtual art workshops, culminating in a show and tell event, themed around the seasons.
Stirling
* Mercat Cross and City Centre Community Council in partnership with Creative Stirling Location: Stirling Project Description: Develop community-led programme to enhance use of neglected public space.
West Dunbartonshire
Rock Community Church Location: Castlehill, Brucehill, and Westcliff - Dumbarton West Project Description: Cultural and arts-based programme of events celebrating the community of Dumbarton West.
Tullochan Location: West Dunbartonshire Project Description: Bring older people with skills to share together with younger people to upcycle furniture and participate in creative projects.