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Growing Ambition​



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Stuart MacPherson, Bright Sparks Award.  Photo Credit Beth Chalmers​ 

Growing Ambition

Creatives Unlimited seeks to stimulate artistic ambition by supporting creative practitioners and cultural organisations to take artistic risks or to interrogate how they currently do things. 

Emergents Awards  

This fund is now OPEN for applications.

Emergents awards are aimed at early career creatives (aged 18-30) from any artform and any role from practitioner to technician and anything in between. Applicants must be based in Dumfries and Galloway. The awards aim to support young people who are currently lacking support to create new or develop existing work and/or have limited access to professional or practical skills development opportunities, mentoring and confidence building.   

Click HERE for full details about Emergents Awards and how to apply.

If your idea is eligible, we will email you an Expression of Interest form which should be submitted by 12noon on Monday 25th July 2022.

Bright Sparks Fund

This fund is currently CLOSED for applications.

The Bright Sparks fund aims to support and challenge creative practitioners to take creative risks: to move out of their comfort zone; to raise ambition in the pursuit of furthering their creative practice. We want to invest in creative ideas that inspire people, fill people with energy and enthusiasm to experience the arts in Dumfries and Galloway.

Glass artist Amanda Simmons, musician Stuart MacPherson and playwright Carolyn Yates are the first recipients of Bright Sparks awards and were selected from a strong field of very talented artists who submitted high quality applications.

Click HERE for more information on the winners of the inaugural Bright Sparks Awards. ​

Innovate Create Cultivate

​This fund is now OPEN for applications.

This fund is a quick and simple way for creative practitioners living and working in Dumfries and Galloway to apply for a small award of up to £750 to explore, develop and further their creative practice and professional development. (Visual artists and craft makers are signposted to Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards)

Click HERE to find out more about the Innovate Create Cultivate Fund

Investment Ready

​There were three elements for this part of the programme all of which aimed to help support and transform the fundraising potential of Dumfries and Galloway’s creative community.

  1. Webinars: Four webinars designed to provide practical advice on a range of fundraising topics 
  2. Financing Creativity: a downloadable resource providing a guide to fundraising for the arts
  3. Fundraising roadshows: The DGU team hosted funding advice sessions with partner organisations such as Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway and The Holywood Trust. 

Click HERE to view recordings of the four webinars or to download the Financing Creativity resource book.
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    • Growing Leaders >
      • 2020 Leaders Cohort
      • Next Level
      • The Circuit
    • Growing Ambition >
      • Bright Sparks >
        • Amanda Simmons
        • Carolyn Yates
        • Stuart MacPherson
      • Emergents Awards
      • Innovate Create Cultivate
      • Investment Ready
    • Growing Visibility >
      • Focus
      • There is a place
      • Voices Unlimited
      • Spirit and Inspiration
  • Remembering Together
  • Together Again
  • DGyoUth
    • Youth Arts Framework
    • Youth Arts Meetings
    • DGyoUth Survey
    • DGyoUth Showcase
  • Projects and Strategy
    • D&G Cultural Strategy
    • Royal Highland Showcase >
      • DGU Members' Showcase
      • Photography Spotlight
  • Funding
    • Innovate Create Cultivate
    • VACMA
    • Dumfries and Galloway Regional Arts Fund
    • Together Again
    • Bright Sparks
  • Membership
    • Membership Survey
  • Covid-19 Resources
  • About Us
    • DGU Team
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