Scotland's Creative Digital Initiative

Funding All CCS and Cross-sectoral United Kingdom COVID 19

A new £1 million digital support programme for creative and cultural businesses has launched. The Creative Digital Initiative will help the sector develop digital capabilities in response to the limitations imposed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.


March 24, 2021

The programme includes:

  • grants for creative businesses to build their digital capacity
  • courses to increase confidence in digital understanding
  • workshops and mentoring for artists and cultural organisations

Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said:

“The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work and creative and cultural businesses in particular have shown great innovation over the last year, exploring new ways to reach out to and engage with people.

This programme will provide support to small and medium-sized creative and cultural businesses to help them continue to build their digital capacity and provide the tools needed to respond to the limitations they currently face.

This includes financial support to build digital capacity – for example helping businesses improve digital marketing skills and learn how to grow audiences – as well as practical help to increase confidence, provide new creative opportunities and mentor artists and cultural organisations.”

You can read more information here.

The Creative Digital Initiative programme can be found at the Xpo North website.

The programme has been developed through a partnership of Scotland’s enterprise agencies (Scottish Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, South of Scotland Enterprise, Business Gateway), Skills Development Scotland, Creative Scotland and the Scottish Government.