
Open Fund for Individuals
The Open Fund for Individuals is one of Creative Scotland’s key funding programmes, supporting the wide range of activity initiated by artists, writers, producers and other creative practitioners in Scotland.
You can apply for between £500 and £100,000.
Temporary change to Open Fund for Individuals decision timeline
Creative Scotland is currently reviewing the process for our Open Fund for Individuals (OFFI) to identify where improvements can be made.
As part of this review, the lead time for award decisions has been temporarily extended by up to a maximum of 4 weeks (in most cases, a decision will be issued in a far shorter timescale), and applicants should consider this in any plans for their schedule of work related to their application.
Our review will include the decision-making process at application stage, terms of contract once a project is awarded funding, and subsequent project monitoring.
This does not affect any applicant whose funding contract has already been issued.
We aim to minimise impact on applicants as much as possible during this temporary review period.
All other elements of the guidance for this fund remain as published.
There are no deadlines for this fund – you can apply year-round.
Further details here