Financial support to attend SPRINGBOARD 2025

We are offering up to 10 bursaries to support freelancers in the creative and climate sectors to attend our online assembly on 5 and 6 March 2025.
Applications for bursaries have now closed.
We recognise that many freelancers in the cultural and climate change sectors cannot participate in events like SPRINGBOARD 2025 owing to financial pressures. However, freelancers’ contributions are invaluable to creative climate action, so we’re offering up to 10 bursaries of £300 each to cover attendance time.
Who can apply?
These bursaries are for people working on a freelance basis in Scotland. Successful applicants will have shown how participating in SPRINGBOARD 2025 will better equip them to continue their work on bringing about transformational change in Scotland.
We particularly encourage applications that will increase the diversity of assembly participants and would like, if possible, to award half the bursaries to cultural practitioners and half to climate change practitioners.
Culture for Climate Scotland is committed to the Scottish Government’s Fair Work First policy.
Read our Fair Work statement.
Book your ticket
Please do buy a ticket for the assembly on the Zoom Events site using the ‘Culture / climate change freelancer’ ticket. If you are awarded a bursary, we will reimburse the cost of your ticket.
Apply now
Make your application via our online bursary application form.
You can contact us on [email protected] if you have accessibility needs for completing the application. This will not affect the selection panel’s decisions.
Please also complete our Equality Monitoring Survey at the same time as submitting your application.
The deadline to apply is 29 January 2025.
We will get in touch with you by mid-February to tell you our decision.
If you have any questions, please contact us using the email address above.
Receiving the bursary
Successful bursary applicants must agree to attend all of day one (5 March 2025) and a minimum of three breakouts and the final plenary on day two (6 March 2025).
The assembly is taking place online and via watch parties in certain locations, the details of which are being finalised currently.
About SPRINGBOARD 2025
This online event will focus on how all of society will need to reimagine itself in the face of the climate change we are experiencing, and how the arts and cultural sector, as well as working on its own transformation, can contribute to the transformation of wider society.
Taking place on 5 and 6 March, the first day will focus on keynote speakers and inspiration while the second will be in breakout rooms for interactive workshops, panels and discussions.
Find more details of the programme and timings on our SPRINGBOARD event page.