As a result of the draft budget announcement today, Creative Scotland’s discretionary Grant in Aid budget for 2016-17 will be reduced by 3.6%. While we made a strong case for something more positive, we appreciate that the Scottish Government had difficult choices to make.
Creative Scotland will now look closely at how we apply our reduced budget for 2016/17, both in terms of our own operations and the Grant in Aid funding that we disburse, much of which is used to support Regularly Funded Organisations across Scotland.
Our Board will be meeting next week to agree our approach and further communications will be issued as appropriate after that.