What support Creative Scotland makes available to youth arts organisations.

Creative Scotland provides significant support to youth arts organisations in Scotland in the following ways:
On 14 November 2014 the Scottish Government announced a £1 million package of public and private funding to engage more young people in culture and the arts. The three year investment will support the Scottish Youth Theatre, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and YDance to deepen youth arts participation in the run up to Scotland’s Year of Young People in 2018. This will secure the future of the Scottish Youth Theatre. The funding will strengthen and support the national youth arts companies’ work to deliver the ambitions set out in Scotland’s first ever youth arts strategy, Time to Shine. Creative Scotland will take this work forward alongside its other work on youth arts.
Through implementation of Time to Shine, Scotland’s youth arts strategy which is supported by funding of £5 million from the Scottish Government. Since the launch of the £3.5 million Hub Development Fund earlier this year, nine new Youth Arts Hubs have been established to improve youth arts provision in 10 regions of Scotland and to engage with over 40,000 children and young people.
On 2 October 2014 a new fund was launched which seeks to nurture young artistic talent. The £40,000 Nurturing Talent
- Time to Shine Fund will offer awards to young people aged 14-20 years who demonstrate ambition, enthusiasm or talent in their chosen art form and require financial support to develop this further.
Funding of over £4.9 million over the next three years across those organisations in Creative Scotland’s portfolio of Regularly Funded Organisations, announced on 30 October 2014, which are dedicated to working with young people across a range of art forms such as Drake Music Scotland, YDance, the National Youth Choir, National Youth Orchestra and Youth Theatre Arts Scotland as well as organisations dedicated to creating work for presentation to younger or multi-generational audiences such as Visible Fictions, Catherine Wheels and Imaginate.
Alongside this, many of the most established and vital building based organisations across Scotland also have extensive youth arts programmes, including the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Dundee Rep Theatre and Dundee Contemporary Arts in Dundee, as well as the Centre for the Moving Image and Glasgow Film who also deliver programmes for young people and film. Creative Scotland will provide over £18 million to these organisations over the next three years to support their full programmes of work, part of which reaches young people.
Through the delivery of the Youth Music Initiative, for which the Scottish Government provides £10 million per annum to Creative Scotland to manage, which gives many young people their first opportunity to engage in music-making.
Through youth arts initiatives as part of CashBack for Communities and through Creative Scotland’s creative learning strategy.