The C&BS Fund enables culture and business organisations to come together and build effective, sustainable partnerships, bringing creative projects – large and small – vividly to life.
Funded by Scottish Government and managed by Culture & Business Scotland, the C&BS Fund provides critical £ for £ match funding, making the journey from a great idea to a great project possible.
While many culture and business sector partners show clear overlaps in interest or ambition, others display less obvious connections… but still deliver outstanding results. In culture and business, as in life, sometimes the most unlikely unions can turn into the greatest partnerships! Find out how to go about building your partnership.
Great creative ideas are what we’re looking for, but how will these be brought to life and what benefits will the resulting projects and activities deliver, in and for communities across Scotland? Work with your business sponsor to make sure your application really gets your message – and proposed impact – across.
From city landmarks to national festivals, and from pushing musical boundaries to adopting new technologies, C&BS Fund supported projects are nothing if not diverse. However, every project has one thing in common – the impact it makes on Scotland’s cultural life and on our people. It’s time to tell us your story!
MUSIC
Absolute Classics & Blüthner Pianos
Through the year-long, in-kind loan of two superb grand pianos, Blüthner Pianos supported and enhanced Absolute Classics’ 2021/22 performance and education activities in Dumfries & Galloway. The project brought world-class performance to Scotland’s remote communities and – thanks to C&BS Fund match funding – online, around the world.
ARCHAEOLOGY | FESTIVALS | INTANGIBLE HERITAGE | LAND & BIODIVERSITY | VISUAL ARTS
Edinburgh Science Foundation Ltd & Cirrus Logic Inc
With a shared ambition to inspire young people to understand and consider STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) and to make a meaningful contribution to Edinburgh’s communities, the impact of this ten-year long partnership has been significantly enhanced by match funding from the C&BS Fund.
FILM & TV | MUSIC
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Aviva Investments
Thanks to match funding from the C&BS Fund, not only was a brand new piece of music created – a piece emotive, relevant and highly accessible – but a short film recording its creation and performance was also created, providing a living legacy on the theme of climate change for both partners.
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