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Here you will find videos, factsheets, and articles to help you with practical aspects of your creative business.

Spaces and Places – Summary Report and Co-Created Action Plan, March 2025

This co-created action plan was produced in response to Creative Glasgow’s Symposium event Spaces and Places for Creatives in the City on 11th March 2025. It outlines the significant role that spatial ecology plays in the sustainability, quality and growth of the city’s creative community. It highlights the existing diversity and richness of creative spaces in Glasgow, while also addressing critical unmet needs such as accessibility, practice-specific infrastructure, funding, sustainability, and grassroots training and support.

Creative Lives

Creative Lives is a registered charity that was established in 1991. They champion community and volunteer-led creative activity, and work to improve opportunities for everyone to be creative. In particular, they celebrate and promote people expressing themselves creatively with others, recognising the benefits this can bring.

Creative Lives work with community groups, organisations, local authorities, policy-makers, funders, and creative individuals as a voice for positive change, to improve and expand the landscape in which creative participation can take place. They work to address inequalities in access to creative participation, promote inclusivity, connect people and communities, and seek to increase awareness of the links between creativity and wellbeing.

Their website has a wealth of resources including a wide variety of guides, briefings, and toolkits, designed to provide essential guidance and creative ideas.

Culture for Climate Scotland

Established in 2011 as Creative Carbon Scotland, Culture for Climate Scotland launched their new identity in January 2025. Culture for Climate Scotland supports the arts, screen, culture and creative industries to address its environmental impact and influence others to do the same.

Cairn

Cairn, founded in 2021 by professionals in Scotland’s performance arts sector, aims to improve working conditions and highlight its members’ contributions to Scotland’s public life and economy. As a grassroots organisation, Cairn addresses the unique challenges of the Arts in Scotland, advocating for fair, inclusive, and equal opportunities for all members, regardless of location or population density.

A round up of resources for mental health and wellbeing

Compiled by Halina Rifai, Sonic Hug Podcast Producer.

Creative work demands deep emotional investment and constant self-exposure, yet discussions around the toll this takes remain too often in the shadows. From the mounting pressures of social media presence to financial instability, from project deadline anxiety to the weight of cultural representation – these stressors can feel isolating when faced alone. //The creative landscape of Glasgow thrives on its diversity, and support for wellbeing must reflect this. Meeting basic needs – having enough money to live, a safe space to work, and time to rest – forms the foundation of creative wellbeing. Beyond these essentials, mental health resources need to recognise different needs and access points – whether that’s crisis support, ongoing professional help, peer connection, or daily coping tools. Each person’s journey with mental health is unique, especially within creative practice. // Remember: struggling isn’t a prerequisite for making meaningful work. Wellbeing matters, not just for the sake of creativity, but for each person as a human being first.

We Are Here Scotland Directory

We Are Here Scotland is a space aimed at supporting and raising the voices of Black People and People of Colour creatives across Scotland.. They have recently launched a fantastic database resource. This database is a searchable database of Black and People of Colour creatives and cultural professionals in Scotland. The purpose is to enable people to network and build relationships with one another, it’s also to help create working opportunities and to share with the wider creative industries in Scotland and beyond.

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