Innovate Create Cultivate
Creative Practitioners Professional Development Fund

This fund is currently CLOSED for applications.
​Depending upon funding from Dumfries and Galloway Council we anticipate this fund will reopen in April 2022. 
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Innovate Create Cultivate is a simple way for established and emerging creative practitioners living and working in Dumfries and Galloway to apply for up to £750 to explore, develop and further their creative practice.

We want to hear from emerging and established creative practitioners from any art form with the exception of visual arts and crafts, practitioners in these fields should seek support from the Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards: South of Scotland (VACMA). For more information on VACMA contact Amy Marletta at Upland - amy@weareupland.com or click HERE

The purpose of Innovate Create Cultivate is to enable creative practitioners to:

• Research and develop their practice;
• Generate bold new ideas;
• Test new ideas or creative direction;
• Create new work(s) of high quality;
• Enhance and/or learn new skills;
• Inspire audiences and communities;
• Contribute to the region’s economy.​

Previous awards

​​Since 2017 we have supported 54 individual creative practitioners to further their professional development and practice through awards totalling £34,859.

Have a look at the table here to see the  diverse range of projects that have received awards.

​In this short video poet, writer and photographer Peter Roberts shares some of his thoughts and reads a piece of work created during his residency at Cove Park where he worked on his poetry/prose project The Archipelago of Silences.