Welcome to the September newsletter
Our SE Conference, in partnership with Social Firms Scotland and
Scottish Community Alliance, will be taking place on 25th/26th November 2019 –
again at the Westerwood Hotel. Last week, we announced that Neil McInroy – Centre for
Local Economic Strategies (CLES) – will be one of our keynote
speakers. Here’s the draft programme for the two-day event –
focusing on community wealth and wellbeing – and the opportunities and
challenges for local social/community enterprises. We are now accepting
bookings – see booking form – and will be populating the
event page over the coming weeks.
Please remember to send me updates for the next Newsletter and
Senscot bulletins and remember you can post events
and jobs
on the Senscot
website.
Sarah
Senscot Update
There are still a few spaces left on the Community Learning
Exchange to Reachout With Arts in Mind in Clackmannanshire
on Thursday 26th September. Reachout With Arts In Mind is an innovative and
inclusive award winning charity which delivers creative opportunities, education
and wellbeing to local communities experiencing life’s challenges, mental ill
health and disability. Using expressive arts as the vehicle; the service
delivery model promotes informed wellbeing choices and mental health awareness
to maintain wellbeing and prevent relapse. Please book here
The next CPG on Culture– Collaborate Culture: Meeting the
challenges of person-centred healthcare, is on 8th October. For more
information and to book see here.
And as we’re focussing on health and culture at the moment- see
this article from the highlighted by Culture Counts Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer: Culture Can Be Good for
Our Health
The SE Census 2019 was launched last week by
the Cabinet Secretary at CEIS’ SE Policy and Practice Conference in
Glasgow. Some interesting figures for culture, creative and tourism
social enterprises:
- 816 social enterprises in Arts & Creative Industries, up 15% from 2015
- 365 social enterprises in Tourism, Heritage & Festivals, up 50% from 2015
- 318 social enterprises in Sport & Leisure, up 39% from 2015
- 138 social enterprises in Food, Catering & Hospitality, up 77% from 2015
(Murton Farm, Sept ember
2019)
I went along to Murton Farm
last week as the Angus Leader ‘Flourishing Destinations’ project welcomed 30
partners and participants from Belgium and Romania to talk community-led
tourism . To read more about the project see here.
Tourism & Heritage
Scottish Traditional Boat
Festival welcome Myles Murray and
Vivien Rae as Co-Chairs of the Festival’s organising committee. The
co-chair appointments come following the untimely passing of Roger Goodyear MBE
earlier this year, and the recent resignation of Keith Newton, who will now
focus efforts on overseeing the Festival’s parent organisation, Portsoy
Community Enterprise. For more see here.
HES asked us to share a
‘hold the date’ for their Making Places, Connecting People, Scotland’s
Community Heritage Conference 2019 at Birnam Arts and Conference Centre on
Saturday 9th November 2019.
The next CPG on Tourism
is on Wednesday 11 September at 6pm and will be a joint meeting with the CPG on
Scotch Whisky. For more information and to attend see
here.
Contribute to the Scottish
Government Consultation on The Principles of a Local
Discretionary Transient Visitor Levy or Tourist Tax.
Update on Scotland’s Next Tourism Strategy
Edinburgh Social Enterprise
Network have joined forces with Geotourist to launch the ‘Discovering Social Enterprise in Edinburgh’ tour. Contact – steve@edinburghsocialenterprise.co.uk
for more information.
Results of the Tourism Industry Barometer for the second quarter of 2019
are now available at a national, regional, sub-regional and sectoral
level. See Research and insights
Creative Industries
The Cultural Enterprise
Office have launched the Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club, a collaborative
members’ community built for creatives, by creatives. Members will have access
to great features including one-to-ones with our expert advisors, exclusive
events at discounted prices, monthly newsletters and resources and a fantastic
networking community. The team are also delivering series of
training programmes called Design Your Practice
Perth Creative Exchange, due to open this Autumn, is Wasps’ 20th
building in Scotland, and first studio building in this area. a £4.5m
partnership project between Wasps and Perth and Kinross Council, Perth
Creative Exchange is transforming the former St John’s School building to
create Perth’s first ‘creative hub’ – an inspiring home for artists, makers,
creative industry professionals and the general public. To find out more or
enquire about letting an artist studio or workspace for creative industries and
cultural social enterprises please see here.
Articulate Hub have been working with young people to create
their e-zine Culture
360
Creative Scotland Staff are “out and about” in the coming weeks,
to ask questions about funding. Representatives of Creative Scotland
will, collectively, be out and talking about funding in in Alloa on 18 September, Elgin on 1 October and Inverness on 1
November. Creative Scotland will also be taking part in a series of
roadshows throughout September to talk about the VACMA programme and funding
support for visual artists and craft makers in Dundee: (11 September);
North Lanarkshire (12 September); Aberdeen (12 September); Renfrewshire (13
September); Borders (17 September); Perth (17 September); Inverness (18 September) and Falkirk (25
September).
Check out the The
Cash for Culture Guide– help for voluntary-led cultural groups
to navigate the funding landscape.
Funding & Opportunities
Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance
Screen Scotland: Film Education Partnership Fund
Screen Scotland: Film Festivals Fund
Screen Scotland: Distribution and Exhibition Fund
Screen Scotland: Market and Festival Attendance Fund
Community Ideas Fund
A Cinema Near You
Culture
and Business Fund
Scottish Clans & Historical Figures Event Fund
The Circle Academy
Historic Environment
Scotland has announced the most recent successful recipients of £182,543
awarded through their Historic Environment Support Fund. The Historic
Environment Support Fund is used to support various one-off, heritage-related
projects in Scotland. The applications are open throughout the year and are considered
in three batches. The next closing date is 30 November 2019. https://www.historicenvironment.scot/grants-and-funding/our-grants/historic-environment-support-fund/
Applications are open for
this year’s Good
Ideas programme– Deadlines soon.
Tenders
Teenas Shed. Design & Build a sustainable studio
Conservator – Shared Collective Heritage,
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust
Don’t forget that you can
view current and future tender opportunities on the P4P website.
Events
Creative Edinburgh are celebrating the city’s creative community at
their annual Awards. They’ll award 9 prizes on the night, ranging from
The Social Award, championing those projects which have impacted on Edinburgh’s
creative community, to The Leadership Award, celebrating those individuals who
act as a mentor and pioneer to the wider community. For more information
and to attend see here.
To see the huge number of
events run by members of the networks see here.
You can submit
events to our website- links will be included in all the thematic
newsletters and the weekly bulletin.
If you have anything for
next months newsletter email me at sarah@senscot.net