Raise Your Game is a five-week, fully-funded skills development programme delivered by Creative Edinburgh in partnership with Capital City Partnership. Find out more about the January 2026 cohort now that the programme has wrapped up.

‘Fair Work First’ is the Scottish Government's flagship policy for driving high-quality and fair work across Scotland by applying fair work criteria to grants, other funding and contracts. Through this approach, the Scottish Government is asking employers across all sectors to adopt fair working practices: appropriate channels for providing an effective voice, such as trade union recognition; investment in workforce development; no inappropriate use of zero-hours contracts; action to tackle the gender pay gap; to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace; and payment of the Real Living Wage. 

Scotland’s Independent Culture Fair Work Taskforce was set up to look at how people working in the creative and cultural sectors are treated and to make work fairer. It was created in response to long-standing concerns about low pay, insecure freelance work, unpaid labour, and unequal access to opportunities.

Let’s be honest - starting out in the creative industries can be a bit of a mystery. You’ve finished your degree, you're brimming with ideas, but the path ahead feels... foggy. Where do you even begin?...