The Creative Edinburgh Awards
Since 2012, we’ve been celebrating the city’s creative community at our annual Creative Edinburgh Awards, highlighting the projects, people and places that flourish across Edinburgh and continually ensuring its place on the cultural map, nationally and internationally.
On Friday 14 November we celebrated the 2025 Creative Edinburgh Awards and announced the eight winners live on stage!
The Awards Pillars
The Creative Edinburgh Awards celebrates three key pillars of the creative community:
People: We celebrate the people elevating the creative industries and communities within it through collaboration, leadership, inclusivity, resilience, and vision.
Place: We celebrate the places strengthening Edinburgh’s rich cultural identity through the growth of a community, amplification of values and development of city spaces.
Projects: We celebrate projects making an impact on Edinburgh’s creative scene while demonstrating innovation, responsiveness, integrity, and boldness.
2025 Creative Edinburgh Awards
Meet the 2025 Creative Edinburgh Awards Finalists! Nominations for the Awards opened in August 2025 and we were excited to see the creative community submitting applications for themselves, their peers, and projects that have inspired them over the previous 12 months. Nominations could be submitted into any of the eight Awards Categories.
