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!


That's a wrap on 2024! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate 'the creatives who shape our city' at the 2024 Awards Ceremony on Friday 15 November at Central Hall!

Find out more about the 2024 Creative Edinburgh Awards Ceremony

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.

2024 Creative Edinburgh Awards

Meet the 2024 Creative Edinburgh Awards Finalists! Nominations for the Awards opened earlier this year and we were excited to see the creative community sending in applications for themselves, their peers, and projects that have inspired them over the past 12 months. Nominations could be submitted into any of the ten Awards Categories, including two new categories for this year - the Development Award and the Festivals Award. 

See the all the shortlisted finalists across the ten categories in the 2024 Creative Edinburgh Awards here!