Creative Scotland supports venues in the region in latest rounds of relief funding package announcements.
In August, Creative Scotland announced a series of measures being put in place to help mitigate the immediate impacts of COVID-19 on the creative and cultural sector, including five new emergency funds which were announced by the First Minister on Friday 28 August.
Sofar, the Grassroots Music Venues Stablisation Fund and Performing Arts Relief Fund have been announced – and out of the 131 venues in receipt of funds, 20 of the venues are from our network region, and 7 of these are members.
To find out more about the funds and who else has been supported, see below.
Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund
Aimed at providing grassroots live music venues with the emergency funds to help address the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and prevent closure, the £2.2million fund which launched on Thursday 3 September, received 98 applications totalling £3.2million. All 72 eligible applications have received funding.
Members of The Touring Network
Aros Centre £20,000.00 Highland
Non-members / From The Touring Network Region
Gellions Bar – £35,900.00 – Highland
Hootananny – £40,000.00 – Highland
The Sound Archive – £10,870.00 – Orkney Islands
The Tooth & Claw – £16,000.00 – Highland
The View – £20,000.00 – Argyll and Bute
The Twa Tams – £37,500.00 – Perth and Kinross
Performing Arts Venue Relief Fund
Designed to support performing arts venues that cannot yet re-open due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Fund is helping to:
- remove the threat of insolvency prior to the end of March 2021 to enable the development and delivery of activity as soon as practicable
- allow for specialist / core staff to return from furlough or avoid redundancy to work on future sustainable activity plans
- increase commissioning and employment opportunities for freelance artists and creative practitioners (between now and end of March 2021) to support continued public engagement while closed.
Names marked * were previously awarded through the targeted part of the fund.
Members of The Touring Network
Dunoon Burgh Hall – £180,307.00 – Argyll and Bute
Birnam Arts Centre – £116,563.00 – Perth and Kinross
Lyth Arts Centre – £97,000.00 – Highland
Nairn Community and Arts Centre – £89,000.00 – Highland
Eden Court Theatre and Cinema* – £750,000 – Highland
Shetland Arts Development Agency* – £247,582 – Shetland Islands
Non-members / From The Touring Network Region
Linnhe Leisure Nevis Centre – £50,000.00 – Highland
Live Argyll Corran Halls, Victoria Halls, Queens Hall (Dunoon) – £186,000.00 – Argyll and Bute
Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall – £150,000.00 – Orkney
An Lanntair – £100,000 – Na h-Eileanan Siar
Comar* – £119,000 – Argyll and Bute
Horsecross Arts* – £749,900 – Perth and Kinross
Pitlochry Festival Theatre* – £400,000 – Perth and Kinross