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The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce is a dynamic, independent membership organisation dedicated to supporting over 850 businesses in Edinburgh. They create valuable connections and offer a wide range of practical services and benefits, designed to support business growth. Each year, they host more than 100 vibrant networking events, and they’re proud to work with organisations of all sizes and sectors.

Refugee Festival Scotland is an annual celebration of creativity, culture and community, and we couldn’t be more proud that Creative Edinburgh is part of the festival programme this year. The festival is run by the Scottish Refugee Council, Scotland’s national refugee charity that supports thousands of men, women and children every year as they rebuild their lives in Scotland.

We are looking for a commercially astute, Edinburgh-based Business Coordinator with experience in data collection and analysis, who is interested in the creative industries to join our Executive Team on a part-time, permanent basis.

Impact Arts works to transform people’s lives through participation in creative activities. They specialise in using the arts to tackle inequalities, improve health and as a way to excite, involve and create meaningful impacts for the people and communities we work with. Established in 1994, they have engaged across 30 of Scotland’s 32 local authorities and with over 300,000 people.

Wasps Studios is on a mission to provide space in which creators can prosper. In doing so, Wasps and its network of artists and creators has developed into the largest creative community of its kind in the UK.

As the director of app shop and consultancy, Good To Hear, Michael Forrest is devoted to creative and data-driven solutions designed to help improve our lives.

Francesca Gresch is an illustrator and picture book maker. With creative freelancing often being quite a lonely venture, Fran decided to apply for Creative Edinburgh Mentoring to help her career even further.

Megan Channell recently moved to Scotland to pursue a new career path - two very good reasons to get a mentor! Here's what she has to say about our Mentoring programme.

Sarah Clarkson is an Edinburgh-based knitted textile designer and the founder of Woolly Originals. She has been mentoring as part of our programme since May 2021 - we had a wee chat to find out more about her experience so far.

Giles Etherington, founder of Brand Satellite, boasts an impressive career in the creative world. We are so fortunate he has volunteered as a Creative Edinburgh mentor for almost seven years! 

Wanting to connect more find support in her creative journey, playwright Catherine Muir partnered with a mentor last year. Here's how she benefitted.

Playwright, filmmaker, and owner of production company Bonnie and Braw, John McEwan-Whyte, has been a part of the mentoring programme since early 2023.