About What We Do Scotland Microgrants From buying materials to covering transport costs, renting space to hosting an exhibition, community-based creative groups across Scotland have been making astute use of small grants from Creative Lives. With money from the Scottish Community Alliance's 'Pockets & Prospects' fund, Creative Lives administered three rounds of funding in 2021/22/23. Microgrants of £300 have been given to 74 creative groups across Scotland so far, via three rounds: Together Again grants to help groups re-start after Covid Keep on Creating grants to help groups meet rising costs Come on In grants to encourage newcomers to join a creative group Craft & Coffee @ Goudies were delighted to receive the microgrant from Creative Lives. We bought some items that we could make and hopefully sell at a local craft fayre, and invested in a microwave, microwave kiln and glass. We very much appreciate the microgrant which kept us going in supplies for almost a year! The Abbey Theatre had been closed for almost two years when were eventually allowed to open back up. As everything had been untouched and unused for so long, when we turned the lights on most of the bulbs blew! We also had to put in hand sanitiser stations around the premises. The grant from Creative Lives has gone a long way in allowing us to reopen and put on productions again. As well as helping groups cover costs for tangible items and services, we've been delighted to find that the act of applying for funding, receiving the money and spending it has had a positive impact on the way groups operate. Hoy Youth Hub purchased acrylic and watercolour paints, pencils, paper, canvases, jewellery, felting kits and crochet kits, clay and a mini potter’s wheel. The engagement level was amazing, everyone came and had a go. Our grant request was entirely driven by the young people based on what they wanted to try, and it has sparked their imagination and ideas for future projects and shown them that their voices are heard. Here are the groups we've distributed microgrants to so far - click on their name to read about their activities and how the grant helped them. Abandoned Artists, Edinburgh Abbey Theatre Club, Arbroath, Angus Adventure Circus SCIO, Perth Afristyle Dance Club, Aberdeen Angus Upcycling Project, Forfar, Angus Apna Ghar women's project, Glasgow Arran Visual Arts Art in Mind, Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire Arria Voices, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire Art in Dounby, Orkney Arts4All, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire Belhelvie Community Trust (The Sand Bothy), Aberdeenshire Braehead Community Garden, Stirling The Brock Garden Centre, West Lothian Carmyllie Amateur Dramatic Society, Angus Castlemilk Cooks Up Memories, Glasgow Category Is Creative Writing Group, Glasgow Changing Colours, Alloa, Clackmannanshire COAST Autism, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Craft & Coffee @ Goudies, Maybole Creative Hands, Ullapool Creatively Exploring Gigha, Isle of Gigha Curious Pilgrims, Shetland Cutting Edge Theatre, Edinburgh Dalmellington Brass Academy, East Ayrshire Dundee Dramatic Society, Dundee Dunfermline Junior Chorus, Fife EcoCD, Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway Exhale.group, Glasgow EKTA Elderly Care Forum, Glasgow Feis air an Oir, North Sutherland Feis Spe, Badenoch & Strathspey Fèis Taigh Dhonnchaidh, Isle of Lewis Fraserburgh & District Men’s Shed, Fraserburgh Giant Clootie Project, Black Isle Glasgow Script Exchange, Glasgow Grey Matters Active Ageing, Helensburgh The Hidden Gardens, Glasgow Hoy Youth Hub, Orkney Inch Park Crafties, Edinburgh In Print, Glasgow Inspiring Families Development Network Scotland, Renfrewshire Jura Music Festival Committee, Isle of Jura Kelly Academy of Irish Dancing, Edinburgh & Airdrie, North Lanarkshire Knit ‘n’ Natter, Dundonald, South Ayrshire Knit and Natter, Craft and Chatter, Forth, South Lanarkshire Krafty Hookers, Falkirk Kingdom Theatre Company, Kirkcaldy Laughs & Lullabies, Stenhousemuir, Falkirk Leitheatre, Edinburgh Life Well Lived, Biggar, South Lanarkshire Lochgelly Band, Fife Made in East Lothian's Shed Group, Haddington Magic of Showbiz Drama Group, East Renfrewshire Mainly Music Ruchill, Glasgow Moffat Youth Theatre, Dumfries & Galloway Oban Open Draw, Argyll & Bute Orkney Art Club, Orkney Performance Collective Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway Phoenix Theatre youth section, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles The Ridge, Dunbar, East Lothian RIG Arts, Greenock, Inverclyde The Sad Song Club, Edinburgh SambaYaBamba Youth Street Band, Glasgow Sewing2gether All Nations, Paisley, Renfrewshire Sharpen Her: the African Women's Network, Glasgow Spit it Out, Edinburgh Stewarton Bands Support Group, Stewarton, East Ayrshire Stonehouse Male Voice Choir, South Lanarkshire Survivor Arts Community, Glasgow Triple Act Theatre & Arts, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire Ukey Hooky, Falkirk Upper Eskdale Development Group, Dumfries & Galloway Walton Court Residents Social Club, Giffnock, East Renfrewshire Writers Ink, Glasgow [Main image: Feis Spe participants rehearse in Carrbridge Village Hall; Above right: participants of the Writers Ink group in Glasgow] Manage Cookie Preferences