Are you involved in a leading local creative network or keen to start one? If you didn’t apply for or missed out on the 2024/25 Create:Networks fund, we want to hear from you!

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Between October 2024 and September 2025, Create:Networks 2024/25 (led by Creative Dundee, with support from The National Lottery through Creative Scotland) funded nine new and established local creative networks across Scotland to build, grow and sustain themselves. As well as funding, networks took part in peer-sharing and network development support. The activity of each network aimed to support local creative practitioners and businesses to become more sustainable.

We’re now looking back at the work of this project, and thinking ahead to what might come next. Part of this process includes an evaluation delivered by Kathryn Welch, and to inform this thinking we’re looking to engage with two distinct groups:

• Those whose work resonates with these aims, but who didn’t apply for funding in this round: Perhaps you didn’t see the call-out for applications, considered an application but decided not to go ahead, or heard about the fund after the deadline passed. You might have followed the progress of the funded networks, or – reading the above – now wish you’d applied.
  
• Those who applied to Create:Networks 20204/25, but weren’t funded: As someone who applied to be part of Create:Networks, we’d love to hear about your experiences of applying, as well as to learn more about your hopes, challenges and barriers to supporting your local network.

For people in either of these groups, we’ve created this short survey which we suggest setting aside around 10 minutes to complete:

A representative sample of those who complete the survey will be invited to join an online group discussion in late November 2025, and a fee of £100 per network will be offered to cover the costs of your time taking part in this discussion.

If you have any questions about this survey, or the project more widely, please contact hello@kathrynwelch.co.uk. The survey will close for responses on Monday 17 November 2025.  

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Create:Networks is managed and delivered by Scotland’s Creative Networks, led by Creative Dundee, with support from The National Lottery through Creative Scotland. You can read more about Create:Networks here.

Create:Networks design by Kate Scarlet Harvey