Eligible
Any arts or heritage organisation based in Scotland can apply as the lead applicant. However, profit making arts and heritage organisations must evidence the project to be of community benefit to be eligible.
Arts & Business Scotland will require the following:
- evidence of how the organisation is constituted and registered;
- a full project programme; and
- evidence that the public will participate.
Any not-for-profit organisations based in Scotland which are non-arts or non-heritage related (particularly charities fundraising via arts or heritage activities) may apply as long as the sponsored and match-funded activities being supported are arts or heritage related. The applying organisation must be properly constituted and hold a company bank account. Cultural trusts are eligible to apply.
Ineligible
Individual artists’ and creatives’ projects are ineligible. However, if the sponsored and match-funded activities they are producing are on behalf of a not-for-profit cultural organisation, then the organisation itself could be the lead applicant. Local authorities that do not have a remit for arts and heritage are ineligible.