Creative Scotland

Annual Review of Performance 2015/16

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Contents

IntroductionIntroduction from our Chair, Richard FindlayIntroduction from our Chief Executive, Janet ArcherThe Arts, Screen and Creative Industries – An overview of 2015/16Arts overviewScreen overviewCreative Industries overview

Understanding our performanceMonitoring our performanceProgress against our priorities for 2015/16Creativity MattersOur income and expenditure

1. Excellence and ExperimentationRegular FundingOpen Project FundingTargeted Funding Screen FundingBreadth of FundingOutputs of our fundingSummary of progress against Performance Indicators

2. Access and EnjoymentIncreasing cultural engagementEqualities, Diversity and InclusionCreative learningDigital engagementTouringGaelic, Scots and Traditional ArtsSummary of progress against performance indicators

3. Places and Quality of LifeGeographical funding profilePlace PartnershipsCreative PlacesCultural infrastructureEnvironmentPerceptions of local creativity and wellbeing

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Summary of progress against Performance Indicators

4. Leadership and WorkforceWorkforce and professional development Youth employment initiativesDiversity in incomeSectoral DevelopmentSummary of progress against Performance Indicators

5. InternationalInternational engagementCreative EuropeScotland’s International ReputationSummary of progress against Performance Indicators

6. Our service and how we deliver our workSummary of progress against Performance Indicators

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Introduction from our Chair, Richard Findlay

It is a great honour and at times a humbling experience to serve as Chair of Creative Scotland. 2015/16 marks my first full financial year with the organisation and while much remains to be done I am pleased with the organisation’s progress to date. Our focus on continuous improvement, commitment and care in support of the arts, screen and creative industries lies at the heart of our thinking alongside our various roles as a funder, advocate, influencer and a development agency.

The Board of Creative Scotland welcomes the Scottish Government’s continued recognition of the value of the arts, screen and the wider creative industries. Creativity lies at the heart of every successful nation and is something to be both cherished and properly underpinned.

Our Grant in Aid allocation is some 0.2% of total Scottish Government expenditure but is supplemented by National Lottery money. Despite a small reduction in our Grant in Aid budget announced in December 2015 we were able to contain this and avoid passing on any reductions to the creative organisations and people we fund, but of course we acknowledge that there are tough financial times ahead in terms of the public finances that will test us further.

We will, of course, continue to make the case for public and private sector support at a local, national and international level and seek to demonstrate the important role that culture and our creative industries play in the educational lives of our young people, the community as a whole and, not least, the economy. Both I and the Board continue to be conscious of the fact that we are only able to fund around a third of the applications that we receive, something that we know often results in real hardship and stress.

I’m pleased that 2015/16 saw the development of our first Creative Industries Strategy, complementing our Screen Strategy, published in 2014/15, and our Arts Strategy, published in the early part of 2016/17. These cohesive and ambitious strategies set out both the priorities and challenges for our work to support each sector and how we will work in partnership with others to deliver our ambitions.

There is ,of course, much more to do and along with my board colleagues we will continue to help, guide, encourage and advise the Senior Leadership Team, and the staff of Creative Scotland to deliver their work to a high and well informed standard.

I continue to be enthralled and stimulated by what is being achieved here in Scotland and the beacon that that sends out to the rest of the world about our country in the 21st century. We are extremely rich in our talent - let’s ensure we continue to preserve, nurture and grow it.

Richard Findlay

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Introduction from our Chief Executive, Janet Archer

2015/16 has been an exceptionally important year for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland with many successes being achieved through creative endeavour across the nation. It’s a year which saw the opening up of wider recognition that work taking place on the small scale really matters, alongside the significant and ongoing successes achieved by our flagship arts and cultural organisations including the national performing companies and collections. All are connected and all are part of the creative eco-system that fuels Scotland’s energy and identity, and sense of confidence and pride.

We have worked hard to support people and organisations working across the arts, screen and creative industries and the sub-sectors that sit within them, which often span across our three areas of function in complex, but exciting ways. It’s also a year which saw an increasing amount of international activity with artists and companies playing significant roles abroad in many different ways.

Creative Scotland’s work is framed by our 10-year shared plan, Unlocking Potential, Embracing Ambition, which was published in April 2014. I am pleased to report that we have now also honoured our commitment to deliver strategies for Screen, the Creative Industries and the Arts through extensive collaboration, consultation and dialogue with sectors and with industry. These three strategies provide a root for the work we are carrying out in each area. Our next step will be to identify the interdependencies across these sectors and articulate more clearly how they join up on the ground.

The 10-year plan is supported by an Annual Plan, setting out our budgets and priority areas of work and how we will measure their successful delivery. This Annual Review of Performance accounts for and illustrates the wide range of work supported by our funding in 2015/16. It draws on data provided by the organisations and projects that we fund and provides headline analysis of their impact.

2015/16 was the first year of a three-year cycle of regular funding for 119 organisations across Scotland. Of these, 20 are new to Regular Funding of any kind, creating space for new voices, energy and ways of working. The network is rich in creative excellence, potential and ambition, demonstrating significant reach throughout Scotland and across many areas of practice. It consists of some of Scotland’s most important, innovative and exciting cultural and creative organisations, producing and presenting great work across craft, dance, screen, literature, music, theatre and visual art.

2015/16 was also the first full year of Open Project Funding, consolidating multiple funding routes into a single open access programme. In the year April 2015 to March 2016 we offered 567 awards through the Open Project Fund, to the value of £11.7m. Overall we have received positive feedback on our refined funding processes, although we continue to get more fundable applications than we

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can fund, due to budget constraints. Because we know how onerous making funding applications can be, we continue to improve our funding processes and are developing a more streamlined approach to applications requesting less than £5k.

Since the publication of the Screen Strategy in 2014 we have implemented a series of measures to grow and support Scotland’s screen sector. We have introduced almost £5m of new funds for film and TV production, and skills development and, through the Scottish Government supported Production Growth Fund which was launched in September 2015, ensured that some large scale and high profile productions have come to Scotland, with all the associated benefits for those working in Scotland’s screen sector. During the year John McCormick agreed to chair a Screen Sector Leadership Group to review the challenges facing the sector and we look forward to their findings and recommendations.

We have continued to strengthen our organisation through the ongoing delivery of our people strategy, which has seen investment in staff through focused learning and development. We have refreshed our staffing structure and job descriptions to make sure we use our specialist expertise appropriately and effectively.

We continue to work to address challenges in the arts, screen and creative industries. While levels of attendance and participation remain high, we recognise the complex reasons for uneven cultural engagement by different groups. We seek to address these both by supporting a diverse range of programming and outreach activities, and through focused work on Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion. We are working in collaboration with Federation of Scottish Theatre to review touring provision for theatre and dance across Scotland, having identified this as a priority in our Arts Strategy. We are also working with partners to better understand better how the result of the EU Referendum might affect organisations and individuals working in Scotland’s arts, screen and creative industries.

Despite the changing environment, there are opportunities ahead. Scotland's arts, screen and creative industries sectors are passionate, buoyant and thriving. They have a pivotal role in generating meaning for both present and future generations and our role continues to be to help them do that.

Janet Archer

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The Arts, Screen and Creative Industries – An overview of 2015/16

Arts overview

Through 2015/16 the Arts and Engagement team continued to support the work of Creative Scotland’s major funding programmes: Regular Funding; Open Project Funding, a range of Targeted Funds, and the ring fenced funds: the Youth Music Initiative; Time to Shine; Cashback for Creativity; the Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund; and Made in Scotland.

In 2015/16 we continued to develop and deliver our approach to Place working. Over the course of this year we have progressed Place Partnerships in 11 Local Authority areas and Forres and Moniaive and Glencairn were deserved recipients of our Creative Place Awards. Major Capital funding was made to Edinburgh Printmakers, Aberdeen Performing Arts, the Artists Collective Gallery, WASPS and NVA over the course of the year, strengthening Scotland’s creative infrastructure for future generations to enjoy. Through partnerships developed across the creative, social and voluntary sectors, Time to Shine has supported nine hubs to improve youth arts provision and infrastructure in 10 regions of Scotland and completed the first phase of TTS.Digital designed to inspire digital creativity in young people.

Alongside this activity we have prioritised our strategic development activity, providing Creative Scotland with a far greater understanding of the wider policy context in which the arts currently operate. In 2015/16 we completed the Literature and Publishing Sector Review, undertook much of the research, mapping and consultation that has informed the Visual Arts Sector Review, and began work on a Creative Learning Review. We have also commenced research to support the ongoing Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Review and begun analysis to better understand theatre and dance touring across Scotland.

2015/16 also saw the development of a new Artistic and Creative Review Framework and the recruitment of 45 independent peer reviewers, all experts in their respective fields. We have sought to create the space for meaningful and objective dialogue around excellence and experimentation across the arts, screen and creative industries and improve the working relationship with Regularly Funded Organisations.

All of this work provided us with a refreshed understanding of the strengths, challenges and potential across all art forms and has served as the foundation for our Arts Strategy, published in August 2016. The Strategy is an important framework that will inform how we will deliver as a funder, development body, advocate and influencer and, crucially, considers the longer-term opportunities and challenges for the arts at a time when resources are constrained across the public sector.

The Arts Strategy aims to stimulate and broaden this debate and help shape a shared and progressive approach to supporting the arts, with the current and next generation of artists and audiences in mind. Creative Scotland is part of a much broader cultural landscape and the Strategy

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will inform our approach to building alliances across art forms, sectors and society to extend the reach, relevance and contribution of the arts in Scotland.

Screen overview

Following the publication of Creative Scotland: On Screen, our three-year Film Strategy in October 2014, we have implemented a significant number of positive measures to grow and support Scotland’s Screen Sector. In 2015/16 we introduced three new funding programmes - the Production Growth Fund, the Screen Skills Fund and the Tax Credit Advance Facility - in addition to our £4m Lottery Fund. Through our Regular Funding we supported access to cinema and programme development through for key film exhibitors like Glasgow Film, the Centre for the Moving Image, and Regional Screen Scotland, for multi-arts organisations, like North East Arts Touring and Dundee Contemporary Arts, and for audience development organisation, Film Hub Scotland.

Through our Open Project Fund we supported a significant number of smaller and diverse film festivals, small capital developments and the professional development of screen professionals, and we deployed further Targeted funds to address some of the strategic priorities as set out in our Strategy, such as film and moving image education. In Spring 2015 we launched the £1m Screen Sector Skills Fund to address skills gaps through targeted training and development programmes, which supported 14 programmes of training and skills development over the course of 2015/16.

In 2015/16 we supported 20 features, feature documentaries and TV drama productions, made 2 major awards through the Production Growth Fund and, through the Scottish Film Talent Network, commissioned 21 first features and 10 short films, with a further 13 projects in development. In 2015 film and TV producers spent a record £52.7m shooting in Scotland, an annual increase of almost £7 million. The Creative Scotland Screen Commission has been busy with enquiries from UK and international productions and has actively promoted Scotland’s talent, locations and facilities at markets and festivals throughout the year.

We continue to work with partners to address strategic challenges for the sector. In February 2016, we called on Scotland’s Film and TV professionals to take part in a wide-ranging Screen Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Survey, to inform our understanding of issues of under-representation and barriers to progression in the Sector. The findings will help us to address these issues through collective, positive action going forward.

Following the recommendations of the Scottish Parliament’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee, a Screen Sector Leadership Group (SSLG) was established in early 2016 with a core group of 14 sector representatives to review the challenges facing the Sector in Scotland and make recommendations to support its future growth at the end of an initial one-year period.

The SSLG has agreed to explore a number of priorities, including strengthened production facilities for Scotland. We continue to support Scottish Enterprise and others to deliver permanent, sustainable studio spaces for Scotland and were delighted to welcome the increased investment in

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the facilities at Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld, currently being used to shoot the major TV series, Outlander.

Creative Industries overview

In June 2015 a new Creative Industries team was established to take forward work on establishing a strategy that would guide the work of Creative Scotland in this area. The team, taking guidance from the Creative Scotland Board, undertook extensive consultation through the summer in order to gauge sectoral ambitions and expectations and developed a draft Creative Industries Strategy for consultation in October 2015.

In talking to many hundreds of people, from sole traders and artists through to major companies, we sought to determine the role for Creative Scotland in amongst the extensive public sector landscape of agencies supporting enterprise, education, skills and innovation.

Alongside this work on strategy development, the team’s work also engaged with digital and creative technology; craft; design; fashion; textiles; and architecture. This work involved recognising and supporting the cultural, social and economic relevance of these sectors while also identifying and supporting the growth of sustainable creative businesses across all sectors.

Through the year Creative Scotland continued our additional role of leading coordination of the national public agencies responsible for Scotland’s creative industries. This was principally done through our role in chairing SCIP (Scotland’s Creative Industries Partnership). SCIP works together to understand the needs of Scotland’s creative industries and by identifying opportunities and coordinated strategic interventions, each agency is able to provide appropriate and effective support. Each of these agencies also works with industry partners through sectoral representative groups, industry lead bodies and individual businesses.

The review and negotiation of strategic principles formed a key part of the year’s work towards the creation of a plan that would encompass the work of the 10 public sector agencies charged with responsibilities in this area in supporting the needs of more than 14,000 businesses known to be active in generating value based on their creative skills and talents.

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Understanding our Performance

Creative Scotland is the national body that supports the development of Scotland’s arts, screen and creative industries.

Our work is based on a set of ambitions and priorities that provide a focus for our work and reflects what we want to achieve. We have five shared ambitions for the arts, screen and creative industries over the next 10 years:

Excellence and experimentation across the arts, screen and creative industries is recognised and valued

Everyone can access and enjoy artistic and creative experiences

Places and quality of life are transformed through imagination, ambition and an understanding of the potential of creativity

Ideas are brought to life by a diverse, skilled and connected leadership and workforce

Scotland is a distinctive creative nation connected to the world.

As well as our ambitions there are four connecting themes that run through all aspects of our work:

Creative learning

Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion

Digital, and

Environment

Monitoring our performance

Under each of our five ambitions we have identified priorities to inform our work over a three-year period, of which 2015/16 is the second year. These priorities inform our funding guidelines and decisions, as well as our own development, advocacy and influencing activity. Each year we publish an Annual Plan, which sets out how we will achieve our ambitions and priorities for that year and summarises our planned income and expenditure.

In order to show the difference that we make, we monitor a range of measures that help us to understand our own work and the health of the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. Our Annual Plans include a detailed performance management framework comprising 24 performance indicators. We are committed to reporting against this framework each year and presenting historical data where appropriate in order to identify change from previous years.

This review, for the financial year 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016, accompanies our Annual Report, Accounts and UK National Lottery Accounts for the same period. It describes key activity undertaken against our five ambitions, including how our funding is being used, and sets out quantitative and qualitative evidence against our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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We review our performance indicators annually and amend them if necessary as our operating context changes and as we become more sophisticated in our approach to gathering qualitative as well as quantitative data.

We aim to achieve success across all our ambitions and priorities over the course of the 10-year plan, subject to any necessary adjustments should our overall levels of funding vary over this period.

Progress against our priorities for 2015/16

Creative Scotland's funding is split into three main types of support, comprising:

• Regular Funding for organisations for at least three years

• Open Project Funding for individuals and organisations

• A small number of Targeted funding programmes addressing specific priorities or shared goals with other agencies. Within this are a number of devolved funds delivered by partner organisations on behalf of Creative Scotland.

In 2014 we announced a portfolio of 119 Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs)1 for the period 2015-18, with a three-year indicative budget of just under £100m. RFOs are a network of organisations across Scotland that, individually and collectively, form an important part of Scotland’s cultural sector, making a significant contribution to society: creatively, socially and economically. They include festivals, multi-art form venues and producing companies, are based in 21 of Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas and are active across a range of art form specialisms, with 30 working across several art forms.

In 2015/16 we worked closely with RFOs to develop and strengthen relationships. Each RFO has a designated Lead Officer in Creative Scotland, to whom they provide quarterly updates, meet for an annual review and share all Board and Committee Papers. Lead Officers may also observe organisations’ Board meetings, where appropriate. We asked all RFOs to submit Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Action Plans as a condition of funding, and produced an EDI Toolkit to assist them to do so. EDI was also a significant focus of our Annual RFO Gathering, held in Glasgow in February 2016, with presentations from Barrowland Ballet, Glasgow Women’s Library, Sanjay Lago, Pat Kane and Tawona Sithole.

In 2015/16 we worked with a group of sector representatives to develop and pilot a peer review process with RFOs. This work responded to an identified need for a means to better understand and appraise quality of all forms and the factors that contribute to it. The resulting Artistic and Creative Review process, launched in March 2016, will help Creative Scotland and sector organisations to adopt more of a common language around artistic and creative quality, to support a culture of continuous improvement. The artistic and creative review framework will initially focus on RFOs, although we hope it may in time have a wider reach.

1 The Arches ceased operation in June 2015 and the RFO portfolio now comprises 118 organisations11

Our Open Project Fund, in operation since late 2014, is designed to provide support for individuals and organisations working in any creative sector across the arts, screen and creative industries. Applicants can apply for funding amounts of between £1k and £100k (or up to £150k by exception) for projects lasting up to two years.

As promised when we launched Open Project Funding, we reviewed the process in September and October of 2015, considering feedback from applicants and our staff. We have improved the guidance and application form to make it easier for applicants to provide information about their project, provided greater clarity on what activity can be supported through the fund, and produced a series of information sheets on key subjects. Applicants to Open Project Funding can now have two live applications at any one time, addressing feedback that only being able to make one application at any one time was inhibiting forward planning.

We continue to publish all our awards each month and also produce a more detailed monthly summary of Open Project Funding awards, which we promote through our own communications channels and the media.

In 2015/16 we undertook a significant amount of strategic development activity. This included the development of our Creative Industries Strategy 2016/17 (published in May 2016) and consultation on our Arts Strategy 2016/17 (published in August 2016). In February 2016, following the inquiry hearing of the Economic, Energy and Tourism Committee of the Scottish Parliament on the Scottish film and TV industry, we shared an update on our Film Strategy 2014-17 On Screen setting our commitment to grow and support Scotland’s screen sector. Significant activity in 2015/6 included the introduction of £5m of additional funds for film and TV production and skills development, in addition to our £4m Lottery fund.

In July 2015 we published our Literature and Publishing Sector Review, and began work with the sector to deliver against its recommendations. We launched an Emerging Critics programme, run in partnership with the Scottish Review of Books, which seeks to address recommendations to strengthen support and training for literary critics. Targeted funding to Publishing Scotland has also enabled an International Publishing Fellowship and a Translation Fund to support the translation and publication of contemporary Scottish literature in other languages.

In 2015/16 we commissioned the Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN) to undertake an initial mapping exercise of the Visual Arts in Scotland, including two surveys of individuals and organisations working in the sector, and held consultation events in support of the Visual Arts Sector Review (published in October 2016).

These Reviews complement those already published for the Theatre, Dance, Music and Film sectors, with each providing an overview of the cultural ecology of each sector and providing the basis for a more strategic approach to funding and support.

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Our ongoing review of Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) aims to initiate a step change in how EDI is considered in Scotland and make positive changes in the diversity of the arts, screen and creative industries. We completed the first phase of the Review in 2015/16, which was focussed on Creative Scotland’s approach to the delivery of EDI. It looked at EDI knowledge across our Directorates through a staff survey and focus groups, and aimed to strengthen Creative Scotland’s knowledge and understanding in this area. The next stage is externally focussed and includes research, workshops and dialogue with artists, organisations and equality groups.

In February and March of 2016 we surveyed professionals working in Scotland’s Screen sector to gather practitioners’ experiences and views on perceived barriers to participation and progression in the sector. Over 500 individuals working in film and TV in Scotland responded to the Screen EDI online survey with economic limitations and gender cited as key barriers to participation and progression. We have subsequently launched a wide-ranging survey on diversity in the arts to build a clearer picture about who is working in the sector, in what roles, and what the perceived barriers are to entering, progressing and developing in the arts professionally.

In 2015/16 we began development of a Creative Learning Review, with the aim of agreeing a common understanding of the nature and purpose of creative learning within Creative Scotland and across the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland.

The review was developed with the guidance of an advisory group and included consultation meetings with representatives of Creative Scotland RFOs and an online survey as well as meetings of Creative Scotland staff and a review of current relevant international and strategy documents relating to arts and creative learning. We expect to publish the Creative Learning Review in early 2017.

We want Scotland’s creative sectors to be internationally connected and for Scotland to be recognised as an important global centre for the arts, screen and creative industries. We began developing our International Strategy following the referendum on Scottish Independence in September 2014 and the subsequent development of the Scottish Government’s International Framework. During 2015 we conducted a process of research and consultation that has defined the framework for the International Strategy. The referendum on UK membership of the European Union and the subsequent decision to leave the EU has required us to revise our time frame for completing the International Strategy while we evaluate the impact on the creative sectors. We expect to publish the strategy by April 2017.

The Large Capital programme is currently supporting a number of projects agreed in 2013 and 2014 that will improve and develop the infrastructure for the creative sector across the country and these are set to come to fruition over the next three to four years. While these capital developments complete, we are not offering further funding for large capital projects. This provides an opportunity to consider what facilities will be required for people to engage with creative practice in the decades to come. This is a long-term research project, which we began scoping in 2015, and will inform any future investment policy on capital projects.

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In 2015/16 we decided, given the current fiscal climate, to postpone plans for an international conference in 2016 and will look at other options to bring the arts, screen and creative industries together to share experiences and learning.

We continued work to deliver our Gaelic Language Plan commitments through 2015/16 and supporting the National Gaelic Language Plan. We work in partnership with Bòrd na Gàidhlig in sharing a Gaelic Arts and Culture officer and have established an internal Gaelic Arts and Culture Team.

In June 2015 we published our first Scots Language Policy, underlining Creative Scotland’s commitment to supporting the language through our own work and the work that we fund. In August 2015 Hamish MacDonald was appointed to the role of Scots Scriever. This is a unique type of writer residency, with a high level of public engagement and a remit to produce original creative work in Scots, its variants and dialects, across all art forms. The residency runs for a period of two years, hosted with the National Library of Scotland.

Our Environmental Policy sets out our commitment to sustainable operations and working with partners to encourage environmentally sustainable behaviours among the individuals and organisations that we support. In 2015/16 we provided strategic support for Creative Carbon Scotland to enable work with cultural organisations to reduce environmental impacts and to raise the environmental agenda more broadly. We have introduced environmental sustainability as one of our criteria in assessing applications for Regular Funding, we continue to consider sustainability as part of procurement processes and we adopt a ‘digital by default’ approach to our communications materials, using local suppliers where print or physical materials are required.

In 2015/16 we have undertaken a review and refresh of all job descriptions in our staffing structure, as part of the 2014-16 People Strategy. This work has provided further clarity of role, purpose and alignment to our 10-year plan, building on the work of our structure refresh in 2014/15. We have allocated clear internal responsibilities for the different areas of our remit – the arts, screen and creative industries – as well as clear leadership on our work with each specific art form or specialism. This means that external audiences, partners and stakeholders can be clear on whom within Creative Scotland to contact and work with, appropriate to their own area of practice.

Through the introduction of focused learning and development tools, including a revised personal development review (appraisal) system with 360-degree feedback and a training programme for line managers, we have ensured maximum use of the skills and knowledge across the organisation. This, together with increasing skills and knowledge through our recruitment, has ensured we have appropriately skilled and experienced people to deliver specialist tasks.

Creative Scotland is committed to providing a prompt, helpful and high quality service and we strive to ensure our operations are fair, open, accountable and effective. In October 2015 we published a Quality Services Standard Guide. The Guide sets out our commitment to professional and respectful communications across written correspondence, telephone, social media and enquiries, as well as

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our freedom of information and complaints procedures.

Creativity matters

We believe that the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland deliver real benefits - contributing to a flourishing society, to our education and learning and to our skills, jobs and economy.

Part of our role is to tell the story of the value that the arts, screen and creative industries deliver to all our lives, supported by public funding. We want Scotland to be a place where the arts, screen and creative industries are valued and recognised, where artists and creative people can flourish and thrive, and where everyone, everywhere, is interested and curious about creativity.

We also want to encourage others who work in or are interested in creativity and culture in Scotland to tell this story. In 2015/16, through our campaign Creativity Matters we provided key messages, research evidence and useful links that will help us all communicate the value and impact of public funding for the arts, screen and creative industries. Through our website, we continue to publish case studies and profiles of work across the arts, screen and creative industries across Scotland to help raise awareness and appreciation of the creative excellence of Scotland’s artists and cultural organisations.

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Figure 1: Progress to date against our priorities for 2015/16

Activity Progress to date

Open Project Funding ReviewReview completed October 2015

Develop and implement a communications approach to emphasise the value that public funding for the arts, screen and creative industries delivers

Creativity Matters campaign launched August 2015

Publish Literature and Publishing Sector ReviewPublished July 2015

Publish and implement Scots Language PolicyPublished June 2015, implementation ongoing

Launch new film funding programmes:

Tax Credit Advance Facility and Screen Sector Skills Fund Both funds launched in 2015/16

Deliver Creative Place AwardsWinners announced June 2015

Publish Quality Service Standard FrameworkPublished October 2015

Begin Capital ReviewScoping of wider research underway

Begin Creative Learning ReviewCommenced 2nd Quarter 2015/16

Publish draft International Strategy for consultationLong-term research project with scoping work in 2015

Publish draft Creative Industries Strategy for consultation Draft published for consultation October 2015. Final Creative Industries Strategy

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published May 2016

Finalise Artistic and Creative Assessment FrameworkPiloted in 2015/16 and Framework launched March 2016

Complete Visual Arts Sector ReviewPublished October 2016

Complete Equalities Review

Phase One (Internal) complete 2015/16

EDI toolkit launched with RFOs 2015/16

Announce details of major international conference for Autumn 2016 Conference postponed

Publish Arts StrategyArts Strategy published August 2016

Review and plan approach to next round of Regular Funding

RFO application process launched November 2016

Develop and deliver People StrategyOngoing

Respond to EET Committee recommendationsOngoing

Continue delivery of our Gaelic Language PlanOngoing

Continue to develop relationships with Regularly Funded Organisations Ongoing

Further develop our digital communications as a platform for those we support – both individuals and organisations Ongoing

Our income and expenditure

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Creative Scotland receives its funding from two principal sources: grant-in-aid funding from the Scottish Government, and UK National Lottery funding. We also receive restricted grant-in-aid funding from the Scottish Government - money that is ring-fenced for specific activity such as the Youth Music Initiative and Made in Scotland programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - and some funding from partner organisations with whom we collaborate on specific projects.

In 2015/16 the resources available to us from these two sources amounted to £85.1 million. Of this total, £50.7 million2 represented resource grant in aid from the Scottish Government and £34.4 million came from National Lottery proceeds. In addition, £3.1 million was received, relating to third party funding, sales proceeds and grant de-commitments from prior financial years.

Our total expenditure in 2015/16 was £85 million. Of this:

£52.2 million was allocated from Scottish Government grant-in-aid and £32.8 million from National Lottery funds

In 2015/16 we committed £77.8 million to funding the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. This includes grant funding of £76.6 million, and project expenses of £1.2 million

Our operating costs in 2015/16 were £7.2 million, or 8.4% of our total expenditure.

Figure 2: Summary Expenditure 2015/16

Total (£) Budget3

Lottery £32,785,116 £37,739,151Grant in Aid £52,204,295 £50,855,698Total Expenditure £84,989,412 £88,594,849Total expenditure was allocated as follows:Funding £77,827,194 £81,070,540Operating Costs £7,162,218 £7,524,309

Explore more onlineThank you, Scotland

10 artists say ‘Thank You’ to the National Lottery. Click here to see specially commissioned films highlighting the positive impact of our National Lottery funding

2 The 2015/16 cash grant-in-aid drawn down from the Scottish Government, as shown in our 2015/16 Annual Report and Accounts was limited to £43.4m. The balance of £7.3m will be met from 2016/17 cash grant-in-aid from the Scottish Government.3 The difference between expenditure and budget results from in-year funds received from the Scottish Government and deferrals made to better reflect the revised timings of a small number of capital projects.

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Performance against our Ambitions

1. Excellence and Experimentation

We support individuals and organisations across Scotland to develop and produce high quality work, both through funding and by helping them to create time and space to develop their practice. The first of our 10-year Ambitions is that excellence and experimentation across the arts, screen and creative industries are recognised and valued. As part of our Performance Management Framework we currently measure our progress against the following outcome:

OUTCOME 1More diverse high quality artistic and creative work is produced and developed across Scotland.

Regular Funding

We are committed to providing long-term, sustainable funding for as many organisations as possible within the context of the overall budgets available to us. In October 2014 we announced an expanded portfolio of Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) to receive three-year funding for the period April 2015 to March 2018. In 2015/16, we supported 119 Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) 4 to support core running costs, deliver their work programmes, deepen their engagement with the public and broaden their professional networks. These organisations received funding in a range from £50k to £2.3m in 2015/16. In total, RFOs received £33.5m of funding in 2015/16.

Figure 3: Awards to Regularly Funded Organisations 2015/16

Number GIA (£) Lottery (£) Total (£m)

Total Regular Funding 119 27,645,133 5,862,045 33,507,178

In 2014/15 we supported 82 Foundation Organisations and Programme Organisations on a multi-year basis. 20 of the 118 organisations are new to regular funding of any kind (Figure 4), and 57 moved from shorter-term arrangements to three-year funding.

Figure 4: Organisations new to multi-year funding 2015-18

Ayr Gaiety TheatreBarrowland BalletConflux ScotlandCurious SeedThe Dovecot Dunedin Consort

4 The Arches ceased operation in June 2015 and the RFO portfolio now comprises 118 organisations19

Festival and Kings TheatreFilm Hub ScotlandGlasgow Lunchtime Theatres – A Play, A Pie and a PintGlasgow Women’s LibraryGreenock Arts Guild - The BeaconHospitalfield ArtsJanice Parker ProjectsParagon EnsembleRapture Theatre The Stove NetworkTimespan, HelmsdaleTRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland)Wigtown FestivalThe Work Room

Explore more onlineBarrowland Ballet

One of our new RFO’s talk about their year, the work created, the growing international interest ……and how they get non-dancers to dance.

These changes increase the geographical spread of Regular Funding, with RFOs now based in 21 Local Authority areas and more than three-quarters operating beyond their base location, reaching audiences across the country. They include a mix of organisational scale as well as reflecting Scotland’s social diversity. The organisations work across craft, dance, film, literature, music, theatre and visual art (Figure 5) and include strong representation for youth arts and Gaelic language. The move to 118 RFOs has increased the number of Regularly Funded Organisations in each art form area. A full list of the RFOs for 2015-18 is available in our Annual Plan for 2015/16.

Figure 5: Art form specialism of organisations in receipt of Regular Funding 2015/16

Principal Art Form TotalCraft 3Dance 11Film 4Literature / Publishing 9Multi-Art Form 30Music 16Theatre 22Visual Arts 24Total 119

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Explore more onlineDovecot Studios

Find out about the growing international profile of this RFO, who are working with artists who push the boundaries of textile art.

In 2015/16 we piloted an Artistic and Creative Review Framework and, through an openly advertised opportunity, recruited 45 Peer Reviewers with extensive, relevant expertise. The Review Framework was rolled out to all RFOs in April 2016. It responds to a need for a means to better understand, consider, and discuss quality and the common characteristics that contribute to it. It is helping Creative Scotland and the sectors we work with to adopt more of a common language around artistic and creative quality, to support a culture of continuous improvement. It does this through a process enabling three perspectives on the work of the RFOs:

Self-review (by the RFO) Creative Scotland review (by Lead Officer) Peer review (by a reviewer from the pool representing the sector)

Open Project Funding

In November 2014 we introduced Open Project Funding, replacing most of the project based funding programmes previously operated by Creative Scotland. There are no deadlines for Open Project Funding; applications are reviewed on a weekly basis and decisions provided within eight weeks for applications less than £15k and 12 weeks for applications for more than £15k.

Open Project Funding supports a broad spectrum of activity including: creative and professional development; research and development; production; small capital requirements; touring and collaborations; festivals; arts programming; and audience development. Support is available for projects of different scale for a period of award of up to two years. Awards are in the range of £1k to £100k (or up to £150k by exception).

We received 1,857 eligible applications to Open Project Funding between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016 and made 567 awards through this route, distributing a total of £11.7m (Figure 6). Of these awards 44% were made to individuals and 56% to organisations.

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“ Scotland’s favourite avant-garde noisemakers” ( The Skinny) talk us through their year and how they used Open Project Funding to continue to showcase the best in literature, music and

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animation

The overall success rate for the Open Project Fund in 2015/16 was 31%:

The success rate for applications was 27% for under £15k, and 43% for over 15k The success rate for applications was 26% for individuals, and 35% for organisations

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What happens when you combine an internationally acclaimed outdoor dance company, ten physical performance practitioners and three choreographed JCB diggers? Find out more about this developmental residency

Figure 6: Open Project Funding from 1st April 2015 to end March 2016

Number of awards GIA (£) Lottery (£) Total (£)

Open Project Funding 567 1,042,676 10,671,919 11,714,595

Awards were made to applicants based in 28 of Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas and active across a range of art form specialisms (Figure 7). Details of all funding awards made during 2015/16 can be found on our website.

While fewer awards have been made through Open Project funding, an additional £2m has been awarded through this route. Our average award through this route has therefore been higher (at just over £20k) than those made through equivalent routes in 2014/15 (at just under £15k).

Figure 7: Principal art form specialism of Open Project Funding programmes 2015/16

Principal Art Form Awards through Open Project Fund

Value of Awards made (£)

Craft 27 393,445Dance 41 1,082,131Design 16 553,406Digital 10 214,690Film 24 329,604Literature / Publishing 79 1,097,256Multi-Art Form 45 1,636,477Music 138 2,353,742Theatre* 95 2,533,717

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Visual Arts 92 1,520,127Total 567 11,714,595

*A high number of theatre-based awards are also captured in the multi-art form category, particularly those to multi-art form venues with theatre facilities.

While £11.7m represents the commitment from Creative Scotland, the total budget for the project activity we funded through these programmes was £40.2m. Successful applicants drew on partnership funding from a range of sources including Local Authorities, trusts and foundations and the private sector, as well as earned income.

In 2014/15 we made 645 awards through a range of Transition funding programmes (between April and October 2014) and the Open Project Fund (from November 2014), to the value of £9.7m. The total predicted budget for these projects was £29.8m.

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Targeted Funding

In 2015/16 we delivered 45 Targeted Funding programmes focussed on delivering shared strategic goals with partners. These included a number of application-based Targeted Funds, including the Film and Television Funding Programme, the Screen Sector Skills Fund and elements of the Youth Music Initiative and the Time To Shine youth arts programme.

Our Targeted funding supported a wide range of programmes in 2015/16, including collaborating with 14-18 NOW and the Scottish Government on a large scale, artist-led cultural programme to commemorate the centenary of World War 1. In March 2016 the Edinburgh Art Festival announced a Dazzle Ship for Scotland, with Turner Prize nominee Ciara Phillips commissioned to ‘dazzle’ a ship in the historic port of Leith.

In total we made 443 awards through Targeted funding in 2015/16 and distributed £31.4m, including £5.4m of funding as part of ongoing capital funding commitments. Of this £31.4m, £16.7m was restricted funding from the Scottish Government to deliver programmes including the Youth Music Initiative, Cashback for Creativity, National Youth Arts Strategy and supporting the Edinburgh Festivals. A full list of our Targeted funding routes is in our Annual Plan for 2015/16.

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Our budgets for both Targeted and Capital funding in 2015/16 were significantly lower than in 2014/15. In 2014/15 we delivered 42 Targeted funding programmes and made 548 awards to the value of £38.54m, including £10.14m of funding as part of ongoing capital funding commitments.

Screen Funding

In 2015/16 Screen Funding was delivered via the continuation of a dedicated Film Fund, alongside the introduction of a new Production Growth Fund and a Screen Sector Skills Fund, and the launch of a Tax Credit Advance Facility.

The Film Fund provided nearly £4m of support for emerging and established film and television talent to create distinctive and engaging work that promotes Scotland’s creativity. In 2015/16 this fund focussed on:

The development, production and exploitation of feature films, feature documentaries, animation and television drama series

Attendance at key markets and festivals

Through this fund we made 129 awards, including support for 20 features films, feature documentaries and TV drama productions.

Our Production Growth Fund went live in October 2015 with a budget of £750k in 2015/16 and £1m in 2016/17 for qualifying productions in the form of a non-recoupable grant. Its purpose was to help grow the screen production sector, create employment opportunities for crew based in Scotland, encourage the use of production facilities companies based here, and deliver a direct and significant economic benefit to Scotland. The fund supported 3 projects, including 2 feature films in its first year: T2 Trainspotting the sequel to the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's original novel, Trainspotting, received £500k; and the major new feature film Churchill, starring Brian Cox, received £250k.

In September 2015 we announced our first awards to the Screen Sector Skills Fund to stimulate growth in the screen industry, addressing some of the key priorities set out in our Film Strategy 2014-17. In total 14 additional awards were made through this programme, to the value of just over £1m.

Explore more onlineScreen Sector Skills Fund

See some of the innovative training programmes developed to support all parts of the screen sector – from scriptwriters to technical crew, young filmmakers to business leaders, producers, exhibitors and many more…….

Explore more onlineTommy’s Honour

Supported with Creative Scotland production funding and shot entirely in Scotland, find out more about this BAFTA Scotland award winning drama about golfing royalty which opened the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Breadth of Funding

Overall, in 2015/16 we received 2,483 applications across our Open Project Fund and all our Targeted Funding programmes, and made a total of 1,010 funding awards through these routes, to a total value of £43.1m. In 2014/15 a total of 1,193 funding awards were made through equivalent routes, to a total value of £48.2m.

Across Open and Targeted Funding routes we have continued to make awards to all of Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas and across all the art form areas we support. In 2015/16, 29% of awards were made to individuals and 71% to organisations, compared to 30% of awards to individuals and 70% to organisations in 2014/15.

Of the 2,483 applications we received in 2015/16, 7.2% were from applicants residing in the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland. Of the 1,010 awards made through these routes, 73 (7.2%) were to applicants residing in the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland, to a value of £3.8m

- £43.1 million was awarded- 2,483 applications were received- 1,010 funding awards were made (29% to individuals, 71% to organisations)

Outputs of our funding

All organisations in receipt of Regular Funding from Creative Scotland are required to complete an Annual Statistical Survey in October of each year. This return includes information about the organisations and their work with artists as well as financial, environmental, audience and equalities information. Collectively the data generates shared intelligence about the organisations we support and enables us to advocate on behalf of the arts, screen and creative industries.

Analysis of the Annual Statistical Surveys received in October 2016 (reflecting activity for the year 2015/16) shows that Regularly Funded Organisations:

● Delivered 63,402 performances, 590 exhibitions and 25,370 screenings5 ● Produced 1,777 publications (including over 1,500 electronic publications) and facilitated

over 1m content downloads or streaming sessions.

5 Respondents to the Annual Statistical Survey have the option of providing actual or estimates figures. 90% provided actual figures for performances, 88% for exhibitions, 94% for screenings and 81% for other public events.

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In total these organisations reported that they delivered 96,653 public events in 2015/16 (Figure 8). This represents a percentage increase of 2.4% from the 94,360 events delivered by the organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding in 2014/156.

Figure 8: RFO funding: number of public events 2015/16

2014/15

(125 organisations)

2015/16

(118 organisations)

Number of performances 63,400 63,402

Number of exhibitions 595 590

Number of screenings 24,071 25,370

Number of other public events 6,294 7,291

Total number of events 94,360 96,653

Recipients of Open Project and Targeted Funding awards are required to complete end-of-project monitoring to report on the outcomes of their funding. In total 331 returns have been received against awards made in 2015/16 (33% of the total awards made), with much activity still in progress, including almost all of the awards made through Open Project Funding (which allows applicants to apply for activity of up to two years in duration). The returns record 6,581 public events delivered by funded organisations, which is consistent with the focus on creative development of many of these funding streams. In 2014/15, the 351 projects making returns indicated they had delivered 6,430 public events.

Through our Targeted Funds we have continued to support events with national significance, including the Turner Prize 2015 exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway, which ran from September 2015 to January 2016 and recorded over 93,000 attendances, including over 19,000 attendances through the public and learning programmes. The British Art Show, a major exhibition tour of British contemporary art was hosted at three venues in Edinburgh in between February and May 2016: Talbot Rice Gallery, Inverleith House and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. These exhibitions attracted audiences of over 85,000 and close to 6,000 participants, with audience surveys suggesting that high numbers of those engaged were under 30 and non-regular attendees for contemporary visual art.

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6 In 2014/15 we supported a number of organisations on an annual basis in addition to the 82 organisations funded on a regular/multi-year basis. All provided data through the Annual Statistical Survey and therefore when comparing data across the two year, we have used data from all 125 regular and annually funded organisations in 2014/15.

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Tramway - Turner Prize 2015

In recognition of Glasgow’s position as a centre for contemporary arts, the Turner Prize came to Scotland for the first time in 2015. Read more about the outreach work and educational programme which was developed to support the prestigious prize

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Figure 9: Summary of progress against performance indicators for Outcome 1

More diverse high quality artistic and creative work is produced and developed across Scotland.

Three-year Indicator Measure Source Status

1.1 Increase in breadth of organisations supported through Creative Scotland Regular Funding

The count of organisations in receipt of Creative Scotland Regular Funding by type of organisation, core activity, primary art form and geographic location

Creative Scotland funding operations data

Increase in the number of organisations receiving multi-year funding to 118 (from 82 in 2014/15).

The move to 118 RFOs has increased the geographical spread of these organisations from 17 to 21 Local Authorities and increased the number of Regularly Funded Organisations in each art form area.

1.2 Increase in breadth of individuals and organisations supported through Creative Scotland Targeted and Open Project Funding

The count of organisations in receipt of Creative Scotland Targeted and Open Project Funding and value of funding by core activity, primary art form and geographic location

Creative Scotland funding operations data

In 2015/16 we made 567 awards through Open Project Funding, to the value of £11.7m. In 2014/15 across equivalent funding routes, we made 645 awards to the value of £9.7m.

In 2015/16 we made 443 awards through Targeted funding to the value of £31.4m. In 2014/15 we made 548 awards to the value of £38.54m.

Across Open Project and

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Targeted Funding we funded projects in all 32 of Scotland’s Local Authorities.

1.3 Increase in number of events supported through Creative Scotland funding

The count of performances, exhibitions, screenings and publications delivered through Creative Scotland funding

Creative Scotland annual returns and end of project monitoring forms

Organisations in receipt of Regular Funding reported that they delivered 96,653 public events in 2015/16. This is an increase of 2.4% from the 94,360 events reported in 2014/15.

Performance against our Ambitions

2. Access and Enjoyment

We are committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunities for people of all ages to experience and learn from the arts, screen and creative industries, wherever they are in Scotland. The second of our 10-year Ambitions is that everyone can access and enjoy artistic and creative experiences. As part of our Performance Management Framework we currently measure our progress against the following outcome:

OUTCOME 2:

Increased public engagement through stronger touring networks, digital distribution and exhibition platforms across Scotland.

Increasing cultural engagement

As a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) Creative Scotland is required to align to the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework (NPF) . This framework is a series of measures that collectively report on how Scotland is performing and includes 50 national indicators.

Creative Scotland is a named partner for the delivery of the national indicator for Cultural Engagement. The key source for national level data on cultural participation and attendance is the Scottish Household Survey (SHS), which asks the public about their cultural activity in the previous 12 months.7 The 2015 SHS survey found 91.9% adults engaged in culture in 2015, either by attending or

7 The Scottish Household Survey is a continuous survey based on a sample of the general population in private residences in Scotland. It is conducted on behalf of the Scottish Government each year and time series data is available from 2012 http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2015/08/3720/13.

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visiting a cultural event or place, or participating in a cultural activity in the previous 12 months, a marginal increase from 90.8% in 2014. Specifically:

82% attended a cultural event or place. The most popular activity was watching films at a cinema (57% of adults) and around a third attended live music events (34%) and theatre performances (34%). These figures remain largely unchanged since 2014.

Nearly all cultural activities included in the survey have seen marginal increases in attendance over time since 2012. Street arts (for example performances in parks or other public places) have seen a marked increase in attendance since 2012 from 12% to 18%.

79% of adults participated in some form of cultural activity. By far the most popular form of cultural participation was reading for pleasure (69%) followed by using a computer or social media to produce creative work (25%).

While participation rates across the range of cultural activities have remained broadly constant over time there has been a marginal increase in participation in visual art and sculpture (12% compared with 9% in 2014) and dance (14% compared with 12% in 2014).

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Analysis of the Annual Statistical Survey returns received in October 2016 (reflecting activity for the year 2015/16) shows that RFOs reported:

Attendances at performances, exhibitions, screenings and other public events of just under 6.2m8, rising to a potential audience of over 10.7m when the reach of public sited work is included (Figure 10).

The public participated more than 369,000 times, with participants defined as those actively learning, being trained or taking part in creative activity (Figure 11).9

Working with 4,248 volunteers, who on average each contributed over 40 hours of their time in 2015/16.

Figure 10: Regularly Funded Organisations: attendance 2015/16 8 Respondents to the Annual Statistical Survey have the option of providing actual or estimated figures. 67% provided actual figures for attendances at performances, 31% for exhibitions, 68% for screenings and 38% for other public events. 9 Respondents to the Annual Statistical Survey have the option of providing actual or estimated figures. 64% provided actual figures for participation at performances, 60% for exhibitions, 73% for screenings and 61% for other public events

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Attendances 2014/15

(125 organisations)

Attendances 2015/16

(118 organisations)

Performances 2,749,581 3,200,909

Exhibitions 1,910,389 1,579,728

Screenings 822,060 949,912

Other Public Events 191,587 456,450

Total 5,673,617 6,186,999

Figure 11: Regularly Funded Organisations: participation 2015/16

Participants 2014/15

(125 organisations)

Participants 2015/16

(118 organisations)

Performances 184,492 215,633

Exhibitions 21,426 84,307

Screenings 2,220 5,484

Other Public Events 65,333 63,915

Total 273,471 369,339

Since 2013, Creative Scotland has placed a set of questions in a national omnibus survey in order to better understand public attitudes to arts and creativity, motivations for taking part in arts and culture and any barriers to engagement that individuals face. The 2015 Survey10 found that:

58% of respondents undertook creative activity at least once a week 66% consider themselves to be creative 60% see arts and culture as an important part of their life; and 41% would like to take part in creative activities more often.

Longitudinal analysis of these measures shows decreases in several areas and suggests that the higher figures seen in 2014/15 may represent a spike, possibly as a result of an increase in civic and cultural discourse around the referendum on Scottish Independence and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

10 TNS Scottish Opinion Survey, Base: Scottish Adult Population (n= 1179), fieldwork was carried out in September 201531

While the Scottish Household Survey indicates high levels of participation in a range of cultural activities there is considerable variation within Scotland’s demographic profile. Live music and cinema attendance are most popular with younger people and decline with age, while crafts is a more popular activity for older age groups. Cultural engagement remains lowest for those over 75, those with long-term physical or mental health conditions and people living in more deprived areas, suggesting that multifaceted barriers to engagement persist. The SHS also shows a direct link between levels of education and likelihood to engage in cultural activity; attendance and participation were highest for those with degrees or professional qualifications and lowest for those with no qualifications11.

Respondents to our omnibus survey questions who would like to access more creative activities cite a lack of time, home or family commitments, cost and lack of opportunity as barriers. Overall, a lack of time was the most common barrier, particularly for younger people, but health or disability was a notable barrier for older people (55+). Respondents from more disadvantaged social groups were more likely to identify a lack of, or quality of, opportunities, cost and health or disability as barriers than those from more advantaged social groups.

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SMHAFF celebrates the artistic achievements of people with experience of mental health issues, Read more about their work and how they promote positive mental health and wellbeing.

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Storytelling and soup. Find out how Broth brought together stories of ageing in the 21 st century, with the tradition of soup-making – with audiences invited to taste the results at the end of the show!

Creative Scotland funds Culture Republic, Scotland’s audience development agency for the creative sector, to drive growth for cultural organisations throughout Scotland. Culture Republic works to ensure that the latest audience research and marketing resources help cultural organisations throughout Scotland strengthen connections with audiences, visitors and local communities.

Culture Republic currently collects information from 52 of Creative Scotland's Regularly Funded

Organisations using data collected at point of sale and recorded through Box Offices. We use this

information to better understand the audience base of our RFOs, including monitoring the socio-economic profile of attendees and participants.12

11 The Scottish Household Survey sample size does not allow for the reporting of attendance and participation levels for different ethnic groups12 The analysis presented here is based on audience data from 59,081 performances and workshop events that took place in the financial year 2015/16 at 52 Regularly Funded Organisations. This data set provided based on a sample of 372,447

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Data for 2015/16 shows that RFOs engaged households across all socio-economic groups but that people from more advantaged groups continue to have disproportionately higher levels of attendance and participation13. Overall, 7.9% of households engaged through this RFO sample lived in the 15% most deprived areas in Scotland, a small increase from 7.7% last year.

Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion

All of the organisations in the Regular Funding portfolio have committed to increasing access to artistic and creative work amongst communities across Scotland. Many have a specific equalities focus and clear remit to work in communities with socio-economic deprivation. Our aim is to ensure that the cultural provision we fund is available to a diversity of people, offering a powerful mix of different types of high quality work that reflects and encourages a better understanding of the richness of diversity in Scotland and beyond.

Explore more onlineGlasgow Women’s Library

Find out more about the history of one of Scotland’s ‘national treasures’, and their plans during their first year as an RFO.

New to the RFO portfolio are organisations such as Glasgow Women’s Library who work to empower and support thousands of women each year, working creatively within a wide range of issues including poverty, women’s health, sexuality and surviving violence. In dance, Janice Parker Projects became part of the network. The award-winning choreographer has a deep commitment to collaborating with people of all ages, disabled and non-disabled, professionals, first-time performers, people with dementia, and of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. The network also includes organisations committed to inclusive practice in the arts such as Lung Ha’s, Solar Bear and Project Ability.

Explore more onlineSolar Bear and Company Chordelia –Lady Macbeth: Unsex Me here

Read more about how two companies came together to reimagine Shakespeare, and fuse D/deaf and hearing performers and audiences into a new and unique theatre experience.

households with sufficient postcode data captured at point of sale to allow for accurate profiling. 13 The audience segmentation is done using Mosaic Scotland, which classifies Scotland’s consumers by postcode into 57

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In 2015/16 our RFOs reported a diverse range of programming and outreach activities. They indicated that their work had a specific focus on a range of groups in society, most notably with children and young people, disabled and older people (Figure 12).

Figure 12: Regularly Funded Organisations: focus of programming, engagement and marketing work 2015/16 – percentage of RFOs with a focus in each area

Has your work had a specific focus on any the following groups?

(118 organisations)

Through programming

Through targeted engagement or outreach work

Through marketing or audience

development work

Minority Ethnic Groups 43% 29% 37%

Children and Young People 80% 87% 74%

Disabled People 67% 64% 59%

Faith / Religious Groups 13% 9% 11%

Gender Groups 43% 32% 34%

Health / Wellbeing 55% 57% 48%

LGBTI Groups 31% 14% 21%

Looked After Children 11% 29% 17%

Older People 61% 58% 55%

Refugees / Asylum Seekers 25% 24% 20%

Creative Learning

Creative learning remains a central connecting theme across our work in the arts screen and creative industries and we celebrate the dynamic and powerful creative learning programmes of the organisations we fund.

Our work cuts across the formal and informal education sectors and during 2015/16 we continued to work in close strategic partnership with Education Scotland, Skills Development Scotland and other key education bodies to deliver Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan, which aims to put creativity at the heart of learning in Scotland. Together with Education Scotland, we also continued to support Creative Learning Networks in 29 Local Authorities across Scotland.

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Nationally, the Scottish Household Survey asks adult interviewees about types of activities that young people in their household regularly take part in. Data is collected on a bi-annual basis and is currently available for 2012 and 2014. In 2014 interviewees indicated that 26% of young people in their households took part in music or drama activities and 7% in other arts activities. These figures are unchanged from 2012.

Youth arts and creative learning programmes for and involving young people extend across the portfolio of Regularly Funded Organisations which include organisations dedicated to working with young people across a range of art forms such as Youth Theatre Arts Scotland, Drake Music Scotland, YDance, the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCoS) and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland (NYoS) 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 in Inverness, Dundee Rep and DCA in Dundee, as well as the Centre for the Moving Image in Edinburgh and Glasgow Film.

Creative Scotland provides annual support for the 5-19 Film Education Programme, which aims to achieve a significant step-change in the level of provision in Scotland and delivers a wide range of activities to encourage watching, making and critical understanding of film for 5-19 year olds. We again supported the BFI Film Academy, providing practical filmmaking workshops throughout Scotland and further specialist progression opportunities for talented 16-19-year-olds. A new partnership with the Scottish Library and Information Council was also established to develop film education in Scottish Libraries.

Analysis of returns to the Annual Statistical Survey 2015/16 received in October 2016 show that Creative Scotland’s 118 RFOs delivered 71,302 education and outreach events, providing over 1.62 million opportunities for participation (Figure 13). Over 1 million of these opportunities were for children aged between 0 and 4 years of age, mainly accounted for by Bookbug sessions run by the Scottish Book Trust in libraries across Scotland.

In 2014/15, 125 organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding reported 76,488 education and outreach events, providing over 1.66 million opportunities for participation.

Figure 13: Organisations in receipt of Regular Funding: participation in learning and outreach events 2015/16

2015/16(118

organisations)Number of early years participants (0 - 4 years old) 1,053,765Number of children (5 - 12 years old) 340,085Number of children (13 - 17 years old) 85,353

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Number of young people (18 - 25 years old) 17,911Adult learners (26+) 74,754Other participants 46,334Total 1,618,202

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Creative Scotland leads on three important nationwide initiatives that focus on creative learning opportunities for Scotland’s young people: Time to Shine, the Youth Music Initiative and Cashback for Creativity. Collectively, these programmes engaged with over 307,000 young people in 2015/16:

2015 saw the second year of delivery of Time to Shine, Scotland’s National Youth Arts Strategy The programme involved nine regional youth arts hubs, each providing a multi-partnership approach to youth arts provision, and supported four of the national youth arts companies and the literature and film sectors to increase national access to art activity. The programme also introduced TTS.Digital, a £450k funding programme designed to inspire digital creativity in young people. TTS also worked with the national information and citizenship organisation Young Scot to deliver a series of initiatives including the Youth Arts Voice Scotland (YAVS) national youth arts advisory group. All the projects put young people’s ideas, strengths and needs at the centre of activities. By March 2016 the Time to Shine programme had engaged over 32,000 young people.

The Scottish Government’s Youth Music Initiative has been administered by Creative Scotland (and one of its predecessor bodies, the Scottish Arts Council), since its inception in 2003. The programme provides access to high quality music-making opportunities for young people and supports the development of the youth music sector for the benefit of young people. The YMI maintained its £10m budget in 2015/16 and delivered activity across all of Scotland. Approximately 265,500 young people took part in YMI activity in 2015/16 of which at least 50,000 were involved in out-of-school activity.

Cashback for Creativity is delivered by Creative Scotland as a strand of the Scottish Government’s Cashback for Communities Programme, a unique initiative that takes funds recovered through the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and invests them back into communities. The third phase of the programme runs from October 2014 to March 2017 with £3m funding delivered through three routes: the Open Arts Fund; the Strategic Fund; and the Training and Employability Scheme. The interim report of the programme demonstrated that it is

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successfully focussing on young people from SIMD areas, from BAME communities, with disabilities or additional support needs or from vulnerable and at risk groups, as well as supporting young people to progress onto further learning, training and employment opportunities.

All three programmes have had a nationwide impact, providing enriching cultural opportunities for young people, supporting them to develop their creative skills and progress onto work and study through employment and training opportunities.

Digital engagement

Ofcom’s 2016 Communications Market Report for Scotland again shows increases in digital communication and participation. There have been increases in connectivity and the use of devices; in 2016, fixed broadband internet access increased to 78% of households and 63% of adults had online access through a mobile phone.

These trends are changing the way that people in Scotland engage with media. The time spent watching TV has fallen by 13 minutes per day since 2014, while there has been a 20 minute increase in time spent watching paid on-demand services. While engagement with ‘traditional’ broadcast media in Scotland remains high, in an average week 20% of people watch paid on-demand content. Digital share of listening increased by 3.5% in Scotland, and accounted for 38% of all listening hours. Internet users in Scotland spent 20.9 hours a week on the Internet in 2015, up slightly on figures for 2014.

Analysis of responses to the Creative Scotland Annual Statistical Survey received in October 2015 (reflecting activity for the year 2015/16) shows that 20.2 million visits were made to the websites of organisations in receipt of Regular Funding, by just fewer than 15 million unique visitors. This compares to 20.3 million visits in 2014/15, made by over 10.26 million unique visitors.

In 2015/16 we continued to support digital experimentation through our continued partnership with The Space and the Alt-w fund, in partnership with New Media Scotland. The NEoN Digital Arts Festival in Dundee was supported for an ambitious year long programme to strengthen practice, representation and audience engagement with all forms of new media practice. We funded 20 projects for and by young people exploring creativity with technology, primarily through TTS.Digital, the digital stand of the Time to Shine National Youth Arts Strategy, which aimed to inspire digital creativity in young people.

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art. Read more about their transformational year….

In 2015/16 we made 100 awards through our Open Project and Targeted Funding programmes with a focus on digital exhibition, distribution or participation, to the value of £3.5m (Figure 14). These awards were made across a range of art forms and seven of these awards (7%) were made to applicants residing in the bottom 15% most deprived areas in Scotland, with a value of £178k. In 2014/15 we made 154 awards through our Open and Targeted Funding programmes to the value of £4.3m. These awards were made across a range of art forms and 14 of these awards (9%) were made to applicants residing in the bottom 15% most deprived areas in Scotland, with a value of £368k.

Figure 14: Awards with a focus on digital activity 2015/16

Art formNumber of

AwardsValue of Awards

(£)Crafts 3 25,721Dance 4 144,036Design 1 74,000Digital 15 546,690Film / TV 18 558,245Literature / Publishing 6 252,300Multi-Art Form 19 954,986Music 21 646,068Theatre 4 117,663Visual Arts 9 195,998Total 100 3,515,707

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Touring

Analysis of the Annual Statistical Survey returns from RFOs for the year 2015/16 shows that these organisations undertook touring activity in:

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829 venues across Scotland and the wider UK, compared to 740 in 2014/15 Of these, 704 venues were in Scotland, compared to 688 in 2014/15

In 2015/16 Creative Scotland made 124 awards through Open Project and Targeted funding to help facilitate touring, with total funding of £3.5m, compared to 150 awards with a total value of £4.56m in 2014/15.

108 awards through Open Project Funding had a touring element, with these awards totalling £3.16m

15 awards were made through Targeted funds to the value of £156k £175k was awarded through the Targeted Cross-Border Touring fund, a partnership with UK

Arts Councils to support touring across UK nations. This initiative brought considerable touring benefits into Scotland, to the value of £244k.

Awards for touring were made to organisations working across Scotland and in a range of art forms (Figure 15). 10 of the awards (8%) were made to applicants residing in the bottom 15% most deprived areas in Scotland, with a value of £177k. In 2014/15 three equivalent awards were made to applicants residing in the bottom 15% most deprived areas in Scotland, with a value of £75k.

In addition to awards made through these routes we provided multi-year funding to two organisations proving touring infrastructure support, North East Arts Touring and the Touring Network, to the value of £120k and £180k respectively.

Figure 15: Awards to support touring 2015/16, by art form

Art Form AwardsValue of

Award (£)

Crafts 1 1,815

Dance 12 633,656

Design 4 168,650

Digital 1 50,000

Film 12 88,592

Literature 2 74,750

Multi-Art form 4 171,240

Music 32 623,799

Theatre 36 1,283,003

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Visual Arts 4 67,800

Total 108 3,163,305

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Find out how digital tool, Tourbook, is aiming to help transform the development of touring in rural parts of Scotland.

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Building on the traditions of a 900 year old song from Orkney, hear how eight new choral compositions were developed and performed in iconic locations across the country.

Gaelic, Scots and Traditional Arts

Scotland is unique in the UK in that it has three indigenous languages: English, Scots and Gaelic. Scotland’s Census in 2011 found that 1.1% of the population (or 58,000 people) aged 3 and over in Scotland spoke Gaelic, a slight fall from 1.2% (59,000) in 2001. Gaelic proficiency is most prevalent in the Western Isles where 52% (14,000 people) of the population speak Gaelic. Other areas with relatively high numbers of Gaelic speakers include Highland (12,039) Glasgow (5,891), Edinburgh (3,157), and Argyll and Bute (3,451).

For the first time the 2011 Census included questions about Scots language. Over 1.5 million people indicated that they speak Scots. Scots is most prevalent in the North East of Scotland and the Northern Isles; 48% of residents in Aberdeenshire, 45% of those in Moray and 38% of those in Aberdeen reported speaking Scots. Shetland and Orkney also have high levels of Scots’ speakers – 49% and 41% respectively.

While all organisations in the RFO portfolio are required, as part of Creative Scotland’s statutory role, to support and promote Gaelic language and culture through their work, there is also strong representation from organisations for whom Gaelic language and culture are core to their activity. This includes Fèis Rois, Fèisean nan Gàidheal, Celtic Connections, Hands up for Trad, the Gaelic Books Council as well as venue based organisations such as Eden Court, An Lanntair, Atlas Arts, Taigh Chearsabhagh, among others.

In 2015/16 we made 125 awards through our Open Project and Targeted Funding programmes with a significant focus on Gaelic, Scots and Traditional Arts, to the value of £3m (Figure 16). These include awards made through our Targeted Gaelic Development fund and through funds devolved to Fèisean nan Gàidheal to deliver Tasgadh, a programme of small grants for traditional arts activity.

In 2014/15 we made 119 equivalent awards to the value of £2.8m.

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Figure 16: Awards with a focus on Gaelic, Scots language and Traditional Arts 2015/16

AwardsAmount

Awarded (£)Gaelic 36 1,104,431Scots 59 1,301,163Traditional Arts 30 592,312Total 125 2,997,907

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Stornoway's musical celebration turned 20 in 2015. Read more on its role supporting and promoting Celtic music and indigenous Gaelic culture as well as putting on a diverse and exciting show for its multi-national audience.

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Figure 17: Summary of progress against performance indicators for Outcome 2

OUTCOME 2:

Increased public engagement through stronger touring networks, digital distribution and exhibition platforms across Scotland.

Three-year Indicator Measure Source Status

2.1. Contribute to maintaining high level of adult cultural engagement across the breadth of Scotland through our funded work (National Indicator)

The % of adults engaging in arts and culture across Scotland by type of cultural activity and frequency of participation

Scottish Household Survey data for 2014 published August 2015

91.9% of adults engaged in culture in 2015, either by attending or visiting a cultural event or place or participating in a cultural activity, a marginal increase from 90.8% in 2014.

2.2 Contribute to increasing children’s cultural engagement across the breadth of Scotland through our funded work

The % of children engaging in arts and culture across Scotland by type of cultural activity and frequency of participation

Scottish Household Survey data for 2014 published August 2015

In 2014 the SHS found that 26% of young people took part in music or drama activities and 7% in other arts activities. These figures are unchanged from 2012.*

2.3 Increase in the number of digital opportunities through Creative Scotland funding

The count and value of Creative Scotland funded activities with a focus on (a) digital exhibition and distribution and (b) digital participation

Creative Scotland funding operations data broken down by postcode, art form and areas of deprivation

In 2015/16 we made 100 awards with a focus on digital with a focus on digital exhibition, distribution or participation, to the value of £3.5m. In 2014/15 we made 154 awards to the value of £4.3m.

2.4 Increase in the amount of arts touring across Scotland

The count and value of Creative Scotland funded activities with a focus on touring

Creative Scotland funding operations data broken down by postcode, art form and areas of deprivation

In 2015/16 RFOs toured to 704 venues across Scotland and the wider UK, compared to 688 in 2014/15.

In 2015/16 Creative Scotland

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made 124 awards through Open Project and Targeted funding to help facilitate touring, with a total award of £3.5m, compared to 150 awards with a total value of £4.56m in 2014/15.

* This survey is undertaken every two years. Data for 2016 will be available in 2017.

Performance against our Ambitions

3. Places and Quality of Life

We work in partnership with Local Authorities and others to embed creativity and culture in communities and ensure locally distinctive work is valued and encouraged. The third of our 10-year Ambitions is that places and quality of life are transformed through imagination, ambition and an understanding of the potential of creativity. As part of our Performance Management Framework we currently measure our progress against the following outcome:

Outcome 3

Increase in artists and creative people working with communities and addressing local needs.

Geographical funding profile

In 2015/16 Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) were based in 21 of Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas, although the majority (80%) work extensively in areas beyond their home base. In 2014/15 organisations in receipt of Regular Funding were based in 17 of the 32 Local Authority areas.

In total 50 RFOs operating public venues reported 5.2 million visits to these venues. Across all organisations in receipt of Regular Funding, 69% delivered their activity in their Local Authority area, 25% in other Scottish Local Authority areas, 2% in the wider UK, and 4% internationally. These figures are broadly consistent with those reported in 2014/15 by the 125 organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding.

In 2015/16, Open Project and Targeted funding was awarded to recipients in all 32 of Scotland’s Local Authority areas. Awards are made by postcode of applicant and it should be noted that the base of the applicant does not necessarily indicate where the project or work takes place. We also made 75 awards to recipients outside Scotland to facilitate international touring and exchange, showcase Scottish artists internationally and support organisations with a UK-wide remit to deliver

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programmes of work in Scotland. In total, we made 1129 awards across all of our funding routes in 2015/16, including the 119 Regular Funding awards to our RFOs (Figure 18). In 2014/15, we made 1,322 awards across all of our funding routes, including to those receiving regular and annual funding.

Across the Open Project and Targeted Funding programmes successful applicants indicated a total of £123m in partnership funding (based on data provided during the application stage). In 2014/15 successful applicants indicated a total of £153m in partnership funding (Figure 19).

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Figure 18: Count and Value of all Creative Scotland funding awards by Local Authority area 2015/16

Local Authority Area Applications Awards Amount Awarded (£)Aberdeen City 43 17 3,118,258Aberdeenshire 44 24 942,885Angus 20 8 551,472Argyll and Bute 51 18 944,497Clackmannanshire 6 2 100,528Dumfries and Galloway 38 13 894,722Dundee City 68 35 3,613,359East Ayrshire 16 5 235,767East Dunbartonshire 23 12 378,273East Lothian 42 14 600,196East Renfrewshire 11 3 267,363City of Edinburgh 673 328 26,856,621Falkirk 10 4 300,155Fife 81 24 1,161,119Glasgow City 780 344 19,180,014Highland 118 58 4,340,757Inverclyde 16 6 375,217Midlothian 21 4 137,125Moray 36 12 692,024Na h-Eileanan Siar 18 7 853,932North Ayrshire 11 3 376,676North Lanarkshire 33 11 924,991Orkney Islands 13 7 540,705Perth and Kinross 27 16 1,133,577Renfrewshire 24 7 402,274Scottish Borders 45 17 619,233Shetland Islands 13 6 359,848South Ayrshire 21 3 260,588South Lanarkshire 45 17 908,482Stirling 38 16 1,414,340West Dunbartonshire 19 6 190,972West Lothian 17 7 728,763Other* 181 75 3,200,165Total 2,602 1,129 76,604,897.13**

* Other includes applications from those based outside Scotland, where the funding is to support activity that benefits audiences, artists and people in Scotland; to facilitate international touring exchange; to showcase Scottish artists internationally; and to allow organisations with a UK-wide remit to deliver work in Scotland. ** This figure does not include project expenses for Targeted Funding programmes.

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Figure 19: Count and value of partnership funding secured through Open Project and Targeted funding programmes by Local Authority area 2015/16

Local Authority Area Awards Partnership Funding: Revenue (£)

Partnership Funding: Capital (£)

Total Partnership Funding (£)

Aberdeen City 14 379,143 5,600,000 5,979,143Aberdeenshire 20 399,561 399,561Angus 7 96,756 96,756Argyll and Bute 16 173,147 173,147Clackmannanshire 2 47,148 47,148Dumfries and Galloway 11 892,886 892,886Dundee City 32 908,852 908,852East Ayrshire 5 121,191 121,191East Dunbartonshire 11 622,522 622,522East Lothian 13 1,220,163 1,220,163East Renfrewshire 3 131,340 131,340City of Edinburgh 290 16,611,724 9,067,209 25,678,933Falkirk 4 231,574 231,574Fife 23 719,063 719,063Glasgow City 303 12,034,599 10,271,403 22,306,002Highland 48 4,132,760 4,132,760Inverclyde 5 73,934 73,934Midlothian 4 21,493 21,493Moray 12 530,354 530,354Na h-Eileanan Siar 5 344,028 344,028North Ayrshire 3 1,408,520 1,408,520North Lanarkshire 10 254,398 254,398Orkney Islands 5 233,929 233,929Perth and Kinross 14 760,156 760,156Renfrewshire 7 171,690 171,690Scottish Borders 17 1,076,820 1,076,820Shetland Islands 5 221,452 221,452South Ayrshire 2 5,977 5,977South Lanarkshire 17 1,754,996 1,754,996Stirling 15 1,172,960 1,172,960West Dunbartonshire 6 70,631 70,631West Lothian 6 219,770 219,770Other* 75 51,480,789 51,480,789Total 1010 98,524,325 24,938,612 123,462,937* Other includes applications from those based outside Scotland, where the funding is to support activity that benefits audiences, artists and people in Scotland; to facilitate international touring exchange; to showcase Scottish artists internationally; and to allow organisations with a UK-wide remit to deliver work in Scotland.

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Place Partnerships

Since 2011 Creative Scotland has worked with Local Authorities to develop and deliver Place Partnerships in their area. Our ambition for the Place Partnership programme is to build a more strategic engagement across the geography of Scotland through an offer of time-limited resource designed to address local issues or to develop specific strengths. In 2015/16 there were 11 Place Partnerships in progress: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, Highland, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Perth and Kinross, Scottish Borders, and South Ayrshire. Development work began on a further two Place Partnerships during 2015/16.

The Place Partnership Programme is a collaboration between Creative Scotland and Local Authorities and other local bodies, where appropriate. Each Partnership has an ethos of working closely with local communities and allocating resources that strengthen the arts, screen and creative industries in ways that are sustainable and respond to the distinct cultural assets, identities and needs of each place. Creative Scotland’s overall funding of £2.2m across these 11 partnerships is matched by an estimated local investment of £2.7m in cash and in-kind.

Each Place Partnership has its own distinct set of priorities and these are agreed through a process of local consultation and described in delivery plans, which typically span three to four years. Each plan is unique to its place but some themes recur, including: raising the profile of the arts, screen and creative industries as an integral strength in local social and economic development; strengthening leadership within the creative sector; increasing levels of engagement in culture in specific areas and demographics; enabling arts organisations to increase capacity and sustainability; and growing and retaining creative talent and creative entrepreneurship.

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Creative Places

Creative Scotland’s Creative Place Awards celebrate and recognise the hard work and imagination that contributes to the rich cultural life of Scotland’s smaller communities, as well as their social and economic wellbeing. They recognise achievements and ambitions in using creative activities both for

the benefit of local communities, and to attract visitors. It is the aim of the Creative Place Awards to provide inspiration for people and visitors by encouraging and celebrating the exceptional creative programmes that are taking place in towns, villages and communities across the country and supporting the development of projects that might not otherwise get recognition.

32 applications from across 22 Local Authority areas were received for the 2015 Creative Place Awards. Shortlisted nominees were selected for their track record in delivering a high quality programme of work, the quality of their plans to enhance their programme and for the involvement of the wider community. Category winners received funding of between £50k and £125k to enable them to further enhance their activity:

Moniaive and Glencairn Parish, category winners for the award of £50k Forres and surrounding area, category winners for the award of £100k Stornoway and the Islands of Lewis and Harris, category winners for the award of £125k

Creative Scotland is a supporter of SURF (Scotland’s Independent Regeneration Network), working together on cultural and creative regeneration projects, advocacy and research and have been the sponsor of SURFs Creative Regeneration Award in recent years. The 2015 SURF Award to reward best practice in embedding arts and creativity at the heart of a community regeneration initiative went to the Art & Living: Laurieston open spaces project.

Cultural infrastructure

The RFO network consists of a mix of organisations of differing scale and vitally important organisations producing excellent work from a particular place, such as Ayr Gaiety Theatre, Timespan in Helmsdale, The Stove Network in Dumfries, Wigtown Book Festival and Regional Screen Scotland.

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The Stove Network

Dumfries and Galloway’s artist-led collective tell us about their ethos and plans for the future.

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Our ongoing programme of capital investment supports the development of arts and cultural infrastructure across Scotland, both through investment in physical arts facilities and work to organisations developing more sustainable business models. In 2015/16 our focus for awards included:

• Facilities for organisations and artists to make and exhibit work, including Collective Gallery and Edinburgh Printmakers

• The development of infrastructure across creative sectors, for example the Briggait Creation Centre in Glasgow and Aberdeen Music Hall

• The dramatic new setting for public art, performance, learning and debate at St Peter’s Seminary at the Kilmahew site in Cardross, Argyll and Bute.

We continue to provide advice to potential capital projects in communities across Scotland and help identify opportunities for the development or enhancement of cultural infrastructure across Scotland. This includes support to town centre redevelopment through funding for key public facilities within town centres.

In 2015/16, we made 13 awards supporting new or enhanced cultural infrastructure through the Place Partnership and Capital Targeted funding programmes, to the value of £6.1m (Figure 20). In 2014/15, we made 12 awards supporting new or enhanced cultural infrastructure through the Place Partnership and Capital Targeted funding programmes, to the value of £10.4m, which included an award of £5m to support the development of the V&A.

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Make Works

Read more about how Make Works is connecting artists, makers and designers with local manufacturers – and supporting the infrastructure in the process.

Figure 20: Count and value of Targeted awards for Capital and Place Activity 2015/16

Local Authority Area Awards Amount Awarded (£)Aberdeen City 1 1,400,000Dumfries and Galloway 1 50,000City of Edinburgh 3 2,637,235Glasgow City 4 1,345,250Moray 2 300,000Na h-Eileanan Siar 1 125,000

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Stirling 1 200,000Total 13 6,057,485

In 2015/16 we undertook an initial mapping exercise of the film exhibition sector aiming to map every context in which audiences watch films together and every organisation which delivers such activities across Scotland. As part of this this mapping exercise, we invited cinemas, film festivals, film societies, film clubs and arts venues, which screen films, to participate in an online survey in order to build a detailed understanding of the sector.

When we published our Film Strategy in October 2014 we clearly stated the development of a sustainable film infrastructure for Scotland as a priority. We strongly believe a major studio facility is essential to drive growth in the sector. We are supporting partners Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise, to encourage private sector investment to make this happen. We agree that build space is only part of the solution.

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Hippfest

One of Scotland’s more unique film exhibition events, read more about how silent cinema is winning awards, rave reviews and adoration from audiences.

Environment

We continue to support Creative Carbon Scotland to support artists and arts organisations in carbon measurement and reduction and developing their contribution to our Environment Connecting Theme through promoting debate and behavioural change, running projects connecting the arts and sustainability and advocating for environmental sustainability in the arts, screen and creative industries.

In Autumn 2014 we announced that all Regularly Funded Organisations would be required to report on their waste and emissions for the period from 1 April 2015 onwards. In 2015/16 98% were able to provide a partial or substantial report on their environmental footprint. Of these 65% provided detail of their carbon emissions and 86% provided data for their levels of waste. The challenges for reporting these figures accurately include estimating and disaggregating energy and recycling levels where organisations are tenants in shared building space.

Creative Scotland is committed to reducing the environmental impact of its own operations in line with the Scottish Government’s target of cutting CO2 emissions by 42% by 2020. In 2015/16 we

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continued to monitor greenhouse gas emissions for energy consumption in our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices and business travel relating to foreign and domestic air travel, rail, taxi and mileage. Our energy consumption dropped by 6% on 2014/15 figures and we were able to significantly reduce business travel emissions (by 29%), mostly due to a large reduction in long haul air travel.

Perceptions of local creativity and wellbeing

The Scottish Household Survey asks respondents about satisfaction with their Local Authority culture and sport and leisure facilities. It found that:

51% of respondents were very or fairly satisfied with their sports and leisure facilities (down 1% from 2014);

46% were very or fairly satisfied with Local Authority museums and galleries (no change from 2014);

48% were very or fairly satisfied with Local Authority theatres and concert halls (up 1% from 2014).

Satisfaction levels are considerably higher among those who indicate they have used these facilities in the past year (at 86%, 91% and 90% respectively), and are consistent with levels in previous years.

In the 2015 omnibus survey 88% of respondents told us that they felt Scotland is a creative nation, a decrease of 1% on the previous year. Less than two-thirds (60%), however, were of the view that their local area is a creative place, down 4% on 2014. Local cultural opportunities continued to be highly valued by the public: 71% of respondents agreed that people in their local area would lose something of value if the area lost its arts and cultural activities, although this is a decrease of 5% on 2014.

Nearly 60% of people in Scotland take part in creative activity every week and report a range of wellbeing, social and learning benefits:

● Relaxation was the most cited benefit of creative activity (44%) followed by ‘feeling good’ (36%), and improvements in health (21%)

● Respondents felt creative activity helped them to be more socially active: getting them out of the house (30%); spending time with friends and family (30%); and meeting new people (26%)

● Other reported benefits included learning something new (29%), broadening horizons (22%) and allowing people to challenge themselves (22%)

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The Work Room – Pioneers of Performance

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Find out how The Work Room piloted a new model for creating and sustaining new work in dance, before presenting and touring it to audiences across Scotland

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Figure 21: Summary of progress against performance indicators for Outcome 3

Increase in artists and creative people working with communities and addressing local needs.

Three-year Indicator* Measure Source Status

3.1 Broader spread of Creative Scotland funding by geographic location

The count and value of Creative Scotland funding awards including supporting new or enhanced cultural infrastructure

Creative Scotland funding operations data

In 2015/16 RFOs were based in 21 of Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas. In 2014/15 recipients of regular and annual funding were based in 17 of these areas.

In 2015/16 Open Project and Targeted funding was awarded to recipients in all of Scotland’s 32 Local Authority areas.

We made 13 awards supporting new or enhanced cultural infrastructure through the Place Partnership and Capital Targeted funding programmes, to the Value of £6m. In 2014/15, we made 12 awards supporting new or enhanced cultural infrastructure through the Place Partnership and Capital Targeted funding programmes, to the value of £10.4m

3.2 Increased amount of partnership funding leveraged through Creative Scotland funding across Scotland

Value of partnership funding secured through Creative Scotland funding across Scotland broken out by Local Authority areas.

Creative Scotland funding operations data

In 2015/16 successful applicants to Open Project Funding and Targeted funding indicated a total of £123m in partnership funding. This compares to £153m in 2014/15

3.3 Increased % of public perceptions of national and local creativity

% difference between agreement that Scotland is a creative nation and agreement that “my local

Creative Scotland omnibus survey

In 2015, 88% of survey respondents felt Scotland was a creative nation; 60% were of the view that their local area is a

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area is a creative place” creative place, down 4% on 2014

3.4 Increased % public value of local cultural offer

% agreeing that people in my local area would lose something of value if the area lost its arts and cultural activities

Creative Scotland omnibus survey

In 2015, 71% of survey respondents agreed that people in their local area would lose something of value if the area lost its arts and cultural activities, a decrease of 5% on 2014

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Performance against our Ambitions

4. Leadership and Workforce

We work to support the development of sustainable business models in the arts, screen and creative industries and strengthen the talent and skills needed to develop sustainable careers through sectoral partnerships. The fourth of our 10-year Ambitions is that ideas are brought to life by a diverse, skilled and connected leadership and workforce. As part of our Performance Management Framework we currently measure our progress against the following outcome:

Outcome 4

Leaders across the sectors are more confident, knowledgeable, connected and developing more sustainable business models.

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Edinburgh International Fashion Festival 2015

In 2015/16 the fourth edition of the acclaimed fashion festival offered an unparalleled development opportunity for the sector through exhibits, shows, workshops and shows

Our Creative Industries Strategy, published in May 2016, outlines a number of goals and is framed in four headline aims including - increasing inclusivity; creating opportunity for emergent creative forms; recognising the value of local trading; and place-based partnerships. We actively pursue a collaborative, partnership approach to working with other public sector agencies and in developing the workforce in the creative sector. In particular we support Skills Development Scotland in delivering the Skills Investment Plan.

We lead on the co-ordination of Scotland’s Creative Industries Partnership (SCIP), which brings together Scottish Government, Creative Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Funding Council, Skills Development Scotland, VOCAL (the national association for Local Authority culture and leisure managers), Scottish Local Authorities Economic Development group (SLAED), Scottish Development International and Business Gateway.

The Scottish Government Growth Sector Statistics for the Creative Industries (including Digital) measure the economic footprint of the Creative Industries. Following a period of decline from 2008, in terms of employment, business turnover and Gross Value Added (GVA)14, the Creative Industries have seen a steady increase in employment since 2010. The latest growth sector statistics show:

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The Creative Industries included 14,590 registered enterprises in 2015, an increase on 2014. These are predominately small enterprises; 58% are sole traders and 87% have less than five employees.

In 2015 the Creative Industries employed 73,600 people. This is a 2.5% increase on 2014 and a 15% increase since 2011.

The GVA of the creative industries continues to grow and was £3.7bn in 2014 (the most recent data available). This is a significant increase since 2010 when GVA stood at £2.7bn.

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Xpo North 2015

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Workforce and professional development

The work of organisations in the RFO network reaches across Scotland and, importantly, supports the individuals working in the arts, screen and creative industries, both as artists and in vital production, presentation and operational roles. These organisations also, in turn, collaborate with and support the work of other organisations across Scotland, the UK and internationally.

Of the 118 RFOs in 2015/16, 72 actively take a national leadership role in their sector and 67 play a key leadership role in their locality. Of these, 33 organisations were performing both roles. In 2014/15, 61 organisations in receipt of Regular Funding actively took a leadership role in their sector and 49 played a key leadership role in their locality.

Analysis of the Annual Statistical Survey returns from Regularly Funded Organisations for the year 2015/16 shows that they employed over 6,000 full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff members, of whom high numbers were employed part-time or on a freelance or contractual basis - the equivalent of over 3,000 FTE positions (Figure 22).

Figure 22: Organisations in receipt of Regular Funding: workforce 2015/16

Full-time (FTE) Part-time (FTE) Number (FTE)Permanent 1,220 1,029 2,249Contractual / Freelance 821 2,986 3,807Total 2,041 4,015 6,056

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- 6,056 people employed by Regularly Funded Organisations

In returns to our Annual Statistical Survey for 2015/16, RFOs reported that they organised 14,331 events supporting artists, artistic development or professional training, attracting over 44,869 participants. In total they commissioned 1,285 artists and creative practitioners to create new work, delivered 996 residencies and provided support-in-kind to a further 4,242 artists and creative practitioners. In 2014/15, the 125 organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding reported that they organised 18,791 such events with 24,512 participants, commissioned 944 artists and creative practitioners, delivered 711 residencies and provided support-in-kind to a further 6,108 artists and creative practitioners.

In 2015/16 Creative Scotland made 145 awards through Open Project Funding to support leadership training opportunities, professional development and work placements, to the value of £1.86m. A further 25 awards (to the value of £990k) were made through Targeted routes to support professional development, including awards as part of Creative Scotland’s Producers’ Hub Project which aims build the capacity of freelance theatre and dance producers based in Scotland.

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Picture Hooks

This development programme went from strength to strength in 2015, helping mentor, showcase and develop the next generation of illustrators …..

Alongside our partner, the British Film Institute, we have supported Scottish Film Talent Network, which in 2015/16 commissioned the development of 21 first features, 10 new and emerging talent short films (and is developing another 13). In addition, 25 filmmakers have received support to attend talent labs at national and international film festivals, training programmes and workshops.

In early 2015, the Scottish Government announced a new £1m Screen Skills Fund to deliver programmes and initiatives, in partnership with industry and other public bodies, which directly address skills across development, production, exhibition, and distribution in the Screen industries. The fund was administered by Creative Scotland and was open for applications from organisations and consortia in April-May 2015, to support:

• Advancing career development, building entrepreneurship and leadership skills

• Business development and management seminar and workshop programmes

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• Bespoke skills development, including traineeships and apprenticeships

• Access routes into the industry focusing on employability, encouraging and increasing workforce diversity and emerging talent development programmes

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Young Films - Bannan

Read about how developing new talent was central to Bannan – which provided training and professional development for production, writing, directing, crew and acting talent, predominantly in the Gaelic speaking community on Skye.

We made 14 awards through the Screen Sector Skills Fund and a further 5 awards supporting professional development through Targeted routes, to a total value of £1.18m. Recipients of these awards included the Scottish Documentary Institute, Cinema For All, the Film Access Network, Screen Academy Scotland, and Film City Glasgow to support the development of skills for those already working in or considering a career in screen. We also provided £86k from the Screen Sector Skills Fund towards the trainee programme on the high-end TV production, Outlander, which was co-funded by Creative Skillset and the production itself.

Youth employment initiatives

Analysis of returns from the Annual Statistical Survey also shows that RFOs collectively employed more than 408 young people through youth employment initiatives, compared to 352 in 2014/15 (Figure 23).

Figure 23: Organisations in receipt of Regular Funding: FTE youth employment initiatives 2015/16

Number (FTE)Paid work placements 23

Unpaid Unpaid work placements 209Paid apprenticeships / traineeships 51Unpaid apprenticeships / traineeships 29Paid internships 87Unpaid internships 8Total 408

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Investigation of these returns suggests that the relatively high numbers of individuals working with organisations on an unpaid work placement are doing so as part of structured work experience programmes with schools, universities and colleges. Creative Scotland is committed to ensuring that all organisations and projects that receive public funding are demonstrating best practice with regard to fair pay.

Diversity in income

RFOs drew on a range of additional income sources in 2015/16, to a total of £109m (Figure 24). This included £4.1m in donations, gifts and legacies and £6.3m from Trusts and Foundations. Organisations reported a total of £68.7m in earned income. This compared to a total of £106m reported by the 125 organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding in 2014/5, which included £3.3m in donations, gifts and legacies, £6.6m from Trusts and Foundations and £53.2m in earned income. The increase in earned income between the two years reflects the change in the composition of the group of Regularly Funded Organisations; analysis of current RFO financial data does not show a significant increase in earned income from 2014/15 to 2015/16.

Figure 24: Additional Income Streams: RFOs (2015/16) and organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding (2014/15)

Income stream

2014/15(125

organisations)2015/16

(118 organisations)Public: Local Authority 13,060,155 13,139,544Public: Other 14,646,678 7,898,701Public: Creative Scotland other 11,320,207 4,991,883Private: Donations, gifts and legacies 3,307,473 4,111,192Trusts and Foundations 6,644,263 6,309,919Other Funding 4,300,649 4,201,931Earned Income 53,158,417 68,668,423Total 106,437,842 109,321,592

Sectoral Development

In order to respond to the large number of high quality applications to Regular Funding and support as many organisations as possible, we made a policy decision to support a number of Scotland’s sector development bodies as strategic partner organisations, through Targeted Funding. These organisations are:

Arts and Business Scotland Creative Carbon Scotland The Cultural Enterprise Office Culture Republic, and

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The Federation of Scottish Theatres

In 2015/16 we also worked closely with the Scottish Contemporary Arts Network (SCAN) to deliver our Visual Arts Sector Review. SCAN was commissioned by Creative Scotland to undertake mapping research, including through surveys of artists and visual arts organisations, and have developed an online digital map of visual arts organisations in Scotland. Through targeted funding in 2015/16 we also supported Creative Edinburgh and Creative Dundee to develop creative industry activity within these cities.

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Figure 25: Summary of progress against performance indicators for Outcome 4

Leaders across the sectors are more confident, knowledgeable, connected and developing more sustainable business models.

Three-year Indicator* Measure Source Status

4.1 Increase the breadth of organisations taking a leadership role in their sector and / or locality

The count of organisations in receipt of Creative Scotland Regular Funding that provide a leadership role in their sector or locality

Creative Scotland funding operations data including funding agreements

Of the 118 RFOs, 72 actively take a leadership role in their sector and 67 play a key leadership role in their locality. 2014/15 figures for organisations in receipt of Regular Funding were 61 and 49 respectively.

4.2 Increase in the number of professional development opportunities through Creative Scotland funding

The count and value of leadership training opportunities, professional development, work placements, apprenticeships or internships supported by Creative Scotland funding

Creative Scotland funding operations data, annual returns and end of project monitoring

In 2015/16 Creative Scotland made 145 awards through Open Project funding to support leadership training opportunities, professional development and work placements, to the value of £1.86m.

A further 25 awards were made through Targeted routes to support professional development, to the value of £990k.

19 awards through Targeted film funding routes, to a total value of £1.18m.

In 2014/15, across Transition, Open Project and Targeted funding programmes we made a total of 247 awards to the

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value of £1.7m.

4.3 Increase in youth employment opportunities in Creative Scotland funded organisations

The count of young people employed by Creative Scotland funded organisations through youth employment initiatives

Creative Scotland funding operations data and annual returns

Organisations in receipt of Regular Funding in 2015/16 collectively employed 408 young people through youth employment initiatives, compared to 352 in 2014/15.

4.4 Broader range of income streams across the sector

The count, value and type of income streams of regularly funded organisations, including earned income and voluntary giving

Creative Scotland funding operations data and annual returns

RFOs drew on other income to the value of £109m in 2015/16.

This compares to a total of £106m reported by the 125 organisations in receipt of regular and annual funding in 2014/15.

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5. International

Creative Scotland operates in a broader national and international context, working closely with our partners to provide leadership and advocacy for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. The fifth of our 10-year Ambitions is ensuring that Scotland is a distinctive creative nation connected to the world. As part of our Performance Management Framework we currently measure our progress against the following outcome:

Outcome 5

More of Scotland’s artists and creative people are engaging with international artists and creative practice.

In 2015/16 Regularly Funded Organisations toured to 85 international venues across Europe, Australia, Asia and North America. In addition, our funding programmes for 2015/6 supported 131 awards enabling international exchange through Open Project and Targeted Funding, with a total value of £1.3m. We also made 51 awards that specifically supported the showcasing of international work in Scotland, to the value of £1.1m. In 2014/15 our funding programmes supported 94 awards enabling international exchange and creative development, with a total award of £1.8m and 66 awards that specifically supported the showcasing of international work in Scotland, to the value of £2.3m.

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Cooper Gallery – CURRENT |不合时宜: Contemporary Art from Scotland

Showcasing Scottish art in China, CURRENT saw the beginning of an international exchange between Scottish artists and the Cooper Gallery in Dundee, and museums in Shanghai

International Engagement

Across art forms, individuals and organisations demonstrate a high level of interest in working internationally. In addition, individuals and organisations can seek funding support through Open Project Funding to develop relationships, grow expertise, co-produce with international partners and showcase work. Through these routes and others such as the Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund (that includes the Made in Scotland initiative), work produced here is reaching new audiences, markets and supporters.

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British Dance Edition

Read about the project to profile, showcase and pitch ideas from Scottish dance to this major trade show bringing in delegates from the UK, Europe, Canada, USA, Africa, Russia and Asia.

Where appropriate Creative Scotland fosters institutional links to create frameworks from which artist opportunity can grow. These include:

A strategic relationship with the British Council on a focused partnership harnessing the value of their global office network

Partnering British Council and Festivals Edinburgh to deliver the Momentum programme which attracts around 100 international delegates to Edinburgh during August to experience the largest cultural celebration in the world and to build long-term relationships with artists living and making work in Scotland

Partnering British Council and the National Galleries of Scotland to deliver Scotland and Venice at each biennale

Collaborating with the three other UK arts councils to facilitate touring of large-scale work across funding regions

Supporting three Fellows from Scotland to participate in International Society for Performing Arts’ (ISPA) Global Fellowship Programme

Supporting the international exposure of Scottish musicians across all genres, including at South by Southwest and WOMEX, and showcasing Scottish talent through targeted events in the UK including Showcase Scotland at Celtic Connections.

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North Lands Creative Glass - Annual Conference 2015

Bringing international expertise in glass art to the Highlands of Scotland, North Lands continue their central role in creating space for artists to meet, learn and network.

In August 2015, a new Publishing Translation Fund, delivered by Publishing Scotland, was launched. The programme is designed to encourage international publishers to translate works by Scottish writers. The £25k fund has already supported the translation of work from authors such as Amy

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Liptrot, Gavin Francis, Jenni Fagan and Jackie Kay into a variety of languages including Spanish, Italian and German amongst others.

A new Fellowship Programme was launched in August 2015 with the aim of forging stronger and more strategic links between international and Scottish publishers and agents to discover and acquire the rights to Scottish books. Developed in partnership between Creative Scotland, Emergents and Publishing Scotland, the programme has engaged 18 international publishing fellows.

Explore more onlineBen Sharrock - Pikadero

Ben Sharrock’s debut feature film Pikadero made waves among critics and audiences since its premiere at San Sebastian International Film Festival in 2015. Read more about the international opportunities which came his way.

The Creative Scotland Screen Commission has been actively promoting Scotland’s talent, locations and facilities at markets and festivals throughout 2015/16, at UK Film and TV in Los Angeles in partnership with the British Film Commission and as part of familiarisation trips for international studio executives location shooting or considering basing their productions in Scotland. Film and TV producers spent a record £52.7m shooting on location in Scotland in 2015. These production spend figures represent an increase of almost £7m compared with 2014. This demonstrates a fast-growing appetite from major film and high-end TV producers to use Scotland as a base for their productions. As a significant contributor to this growth in production spend, Outlander has offered stability, which has led to investment in facilities as well as key training opportunities for the next generation of craft and technical crew.

Explore more onlineOutlander Training Programme

Helping to cultivate the next generation of screen talent, read about the Creative Scotland funded intensive traineeship scheme on Outlander.

Creative Europe

Creative Europe is the European Union's programme to support the cultural, creative and audio-visual sectors from 2014-2020. It comprises two sub-programmes:

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Culture supports the creative, cultural and heritage sectors, and; MEDIA promotes the development and distribution of audio visual works, including film,

television, new media and video games

Creative Scotland is a partner of Creative Europe Desk UK, led by the British Council and BFI, which promotes awareness and understanding of Creative Europe, providing free advice and support for applicants from the UK. This involves specialist staff in both MEDIA and Culture sub-programmes organising workshops, seminars and industry events, as well as answering enquiries and offering one-to-one discussions.

In 2014 and 2015, 16 Scottish organisations have been involved in 18 projects receiving Creative Europe support to the value of over €6.3 million, ranging from direct support for film development, through to partnership projects working in collaboration with other European organisations. This figure includes €1.46 m of funding made directly to Scottish organisations across the first two years of the Creative Europe programme.

In 2015, Scotland’s audio-visual sector benefitted from over €300k of direct funding from Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme, and just over €445k of indirect funding through participation in partnership projects with European peers. This funding includes awards to distributors and cinemas to show European films and a second year of funding of €300,480 for Distrify’s online distribution platform, Muvies. Through the Audience Development funding opportunity the Centre for the Moving Image is building links between young people and European cinema through partnership project Moving Cinema, while SDI Productions is involved for a second year in Moving Docs, connecting rural and urban audiences with European and international documentary films.

Explore more onlineScottish Documentary Institute – Moving Docs

Funded by Creative Europe, read about how Moving Docs (through the Scottish Documentary Institute) is bringing new and relevant stories to Scottish audiences

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Deveron Arts and Anthony Schrag

Artist Anthony Schrag walked from Scotland to Venice, in homage to the modern-day sacred status that the Biennale holds for contemporary artists. Read about his journey.

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Funded by Creative Europe, read about how Moving Docs (through the Scottish Documentary Institute) is bringing new and relevant stories to Scottish audiences

In 2015, seven Scottish organisations participated in cultural, creative and heritage projects supported through Creative Europe’s Culture sub-programme. Five organisations were involved in Cooperation Projects receiving over €3.5 million, with Shetland Amenity Trust leading the €2m project Follow the Vikings, working with 16 European partners to raise the visibility of the Viking Cultura Route. The Scottish Poetry Library and UZ Arts were partners in the European platforms Literary Europe Live and In Situ META respectively, which support and promote emerging artists, and receive approximately €955k annually. Overall, in 2015 Scotland-based organisations were involved in cultural, creative and heritage projects and partnerships that received a Europe-wide total of over €4.5million, enabling work to reach new audiences, build and exchange skills, and internationalise the careers and mobility of artists and other creative professionals.

Scotland will continue to participate in Creative Europe as normal until the UK leaves the EU. The UK Government has provided reassurance that it will underwrite the payments of projects selected for support while the UK is still a member of the EU even if the projects continue beyond the UK’s exit.

Scotland’s International Reputation

As part of the Government’s National Performance Framework (NPF) Creative Scotland is a named partner contributing to for the delivery of the indicator to ‘improve people’s perceptions, attitudes and awareness of Scotland’s reputation’. This indicator is measured by the Anholt-Gfk Roper Nation Brands Index© (NBI), analysing people’s attitudes and perceptions of countries’ reputations. Scotland’s overall score on the NBI was 61.8 in 2014 (the most recently published report), slightly up from 60.1 in 2012. The score has increased slightly from the baseline score of 60.2 (2008) and positions Scotland 17th across 50 evaluated countries around the world, very similar to other Western nations of similar size.15

The Culture dimension of the NBI measures three elements of a nation's cultural reputation: its cultural history and heritage; its contemporary culture; and its sporting excellence. Scotland is seen as an interesting and exciting place for contemporary culture and had an increase in score from 4.4 in 2012 to 4.5 in 2014.

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Figure 26: Summary of progress against performance indicators for Outcome 5

More of Scotland’s artists and creative people are engaging with international artists and creative practice

Three-year Indicator* Measure Source Status

5.1 Increase in the quality and range of international engagement opportunities through Creative Scotland funding

The count and value of Creative Scotland funding awards with a focus on international exchange and creative development

Creative Scotland funding operations data

In 2015/16 we supported 131 awards enabling international exchange and creative development, with a total award of £1.3m

In 2014/5 we supported 94 awards, with a total award of £1.8m

5.2 Increase in the amount of international touring across Scotland through Creative Scotland funding

The count, value and geographic spread of individuals and organisations in receipt of Creative Scotland funding to showcase international work in Scotland

Creative Scotland funding operations data including annual returns

In 2015/16, we made 51 awards to support the showcasing of international work in Scotland, to the value of £1.1m.

In 2014/15 we made 66 awards, to the value of £2.28m

5.3 Increase in the % of positive international perceptions of Scotland’s culture (National Indicator)

% of positive perceptions of Scotland’s nation brand across six areas of national competence, characteristics and assets (including culture)

The Anholt-GFK Roper Nations Brand Index. The Index is based on yearly interviews with approx. 1,000 adults who are internet users in each of the 20 panel countries.

Scotland’s overall score on the NBI was 61.8 in 2014, slightly up from 60.1 in 2012. The culture score increased from 4.4 in 2012 to 4.5 in 2014.

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6. Our service and how we deliver our work

Creative Scotland is committed to providing an effective and efficient service to those we are here to support and to effectively manage the public funds for which we are responsible. As part of our Performance Management Framework we currently measure our progress against the following outcome:

Creative Scotland is a more effective and accountable organisation.

Partnership working

We continue to develop partnerships with others to create the best conditions for the arts, screen and creative industries to thrive. This includes working with economic development agencies, trusts and foundations, Local Authorities and other public and private sector organisations, to address strategic needs in the arts, screen and creative industries. Our strategic partnerships include those with the BFI to support the Scottish Film Talent Network, Local Authorities involved in Place Partnerships, Creative Europe, Education Scotland and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

In 2015/16 our strategic partnerships secured £5.08m of leveraged funding. This compares to £5.03m in 2014/15. Figures for 2014/15 included £3m through the Celebrate programme created by the four Scottish lottery distributors (Big Lottery Fund, Creative Scotland, Heritage Lottery Fund and sportscotland) to offer support to communities across Scotland as they celebrated the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Processing applications

In 2015/16 we received and processed 1,857 applications to our Open Project Funding programme. This fund operates two processing times: eight working weeks for under £15k applications and 12 working weeks for over £15k. On average the turnaround times for the assessment of applications, from the date application received to notifying applicant of our decision, were 38 and 53 working days respectively. Overall, 79% of applications to the Open Project Fund were processed within the specified time frame (just under 75% for the under 15k fund and 94% for the over 15k fund. In 2014/15 92% of applications to the Open Project Fund were processed within the specified time frame.

Feedback on service

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The delay in processing some funding applications resulted from a marked increase in the applications we received in November and December 2015. We contacted those applicants affected and the average delay in processing these delayed applications was three working days.

In order to better understand the service we provide to funding applicants we undertake a survey twice a year of both successful and unsuccessful applicants to our funding routes. In the March 2016 survey, those expressing trust in Creative Scotland was 71% and there was an increase in the proportion of stakeholders who rated Creative Scotland’s knowledge and specialist expertise and the quality of our service highly. The passion and commitment of the organisation and our responsiveness continues to be rated highly.

We ask a number of survey questions to gauge stakeholder satisfaction with our services. Between March 2015 and March 2016:

The number of respondents satisfied with communications with Creative Scotland rose from 85% to 88%.

The number of respondents rating responsiveness to enquiries and requests as good, very good or excellent rose from 78% to 87%. For those who had used our dedicated Enquiries service, satisfaction rose from 82% to 88%.

Those rating the application process as good, very good or excellent was maintained at 66%.

We conducted a stakeholder survey in October 2014 and March 2016 to allow comparison between the applicant experience of the previous funding models and the new Open Project Fund. Comparison between October 2014 and March 2016 showed that more applicants rated the guidance and information provided more highly (69% up from 61%); the transparency of the process (56% up from 50%); and the efficiency of our service (74% up from 66%).

Digital channels

Our digital channels continue to be our primary means of communication and engagement with the majority of our stakeholders. In 2015/16 we continued to develop rich content for the website, publishing features and interviews to highlight the impact of the projects we fund across Scotland. In August 2015 we launched Creativity Matters, an online resource providing statistics and evidence of the impact of the arts on a social, economic and intrinsic level. In 2015/16 we recorded:

154,117 new visitors to our homepage, a decrease of 2.5% from the previous year 655,214 unique visitors accessing pages across the whole site (including our Opportunities

site which allows individuals and organisations to advertise and respond to sector opportunities) an increase of 5.5% from the previous year.

5.2m total page views, an increase of 6% from the previous year 43,255 views of our Explore pages, where we published 94 new features showcasing work in

Scotland’s arts, screen and creative industries Nearly 6,000 new followers on Facebook, bringing the total to 37,687

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Over 80% users highly rated the accessibility, ease of understanding and content of our website, based on our March 2016 stakeholder survey.

People Strategy

Throughout 2015 and 2016 we have undertaken a review and refresh of all job descriptions within a revised staffing structure as part of the 2014-16 People Strategy, including job evaluation where required. We have allocated clear internal responsibilities for the different areas of our remit – the arts, screen and creative industries – as well as clear leadership on our work with each specific art form or specialism. This means that external audiences, partners and stakeholders can be clear on whom within Creative Scotland to contact and work with, appropriate to their own area of practice .

Through the introduction of focused learning and development tools, including a revised staff appraisal system with 360 feedback and a line managers training programme and handbook, we have ensured maximum use of the skills and knowledge across the organisation. This, together with increasing skills and knowledge through our recruitment, has ensured we have appropriately skilled and experienced people to deliver specialist tasks.

With a key focus on employee wellbeing we successfully achieved the NHS Healthy Working Lives Bronze award by delivering a suite of activities providing information and learning on a variety of matters including mental health awareness, stress management, healthy eating, back care and general wellbeing.

In January and February 2015 we ran our first full employee engagement survey for Creative Scotland staff. The aim of the survey was to hear staff views on organisational culture, communication and management to help us to develop the organisation and its support structures, and ensure the successful delivery of the organisation’s goals and strategic objectives. The employee engagement survey found that on the whole, employees at Creative Scotland are positive about their job; the majority feel a sense of satisfaction from the work they do and would recommend Creative Scotland as a good place to work. The survey identified four key areas for the organisation to prioritise: how we are led and managed; how we communicate; how we learn and develop; and work/life balance. Staff groups were set up to address all of these priorities. We plan run a staff survey in 2017 to assess change since 2015.

Explore more onlineOpportunitiesConnecting creative people and creative opportunities – visit our online resource of live arts opportunities.

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Figure 27: Summary of progress against performance indicators for Our Service

Creative Scotland is a more effective and accountable organisation.

Three-year Indicator* Measure Source Status

6.1 Increased stakeholder satisfaction

% of surveyed funding applicants reporting positive interaction with Creative Scotland

Creative Scotland omnibus survey

Between March 2015 and March 2016 the number of respondents satisfied with communications with Creative Scotland rose from 85% to 88%.

Those rating the application process as good, very good or excellent was maintained at 66%.

6.2 Minimum of 90% funding applications processed within published timeframe

% of applications processed within agreed timeframe

Creative Scotland operational funding data

79% of applications to the Open Project Fund were processed within the specified time frame.

6.3 Increase in the value of funding for the arts, screen and creative industries leveraged through Creative Scotland strategic partnerships

Value of additional funding opportunities in the arts, screen and creative industries sectors established as a result of Creative Scotland partnerships

Creative Scotland operational funding data

In 2015/16 our strategic partnerships secured over £5.08m of leveraged funding.

In 2014/15 our strategic partnerships secured over £5.03m of leveraged funding.

6.4 Increased satisfaction and resolution levels of enquiries

% of satisfaction with enquiries service

Creative Scotland omnibus data

The number of respondents rating responsiveness to enquiries and requests as good, very good or excellent rose from 78% to 87%. For those who had used our dedicated Enquiries service, satisfaction rose from

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82% to 88%.

6.5 Increase staff satisfaction

% of staff agreeing that Creative Scotland is a good place to work

Creative Survey Staff Survey

Our staff survey (2015) found that 61% of staff would recommend Creative Scotland as a good place to work.

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