Resources
Welcome to our resources page, an extensive library of educational and entertaining content to help you go further in your creative career. Dive in and share with us new ones to be added to the list. This page will be gradually populated with the latest links and documents.
- All
- Events
- Networking
- Fair Work
- Care
- Wellbeing
- Immigration
- Inclusion
- News
- Link
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Pathways
- Legal
- Mentoring
- Informatics
- Child Protection

Making Festivals Happen - October 2024
We had the opportunity to hear about the Festivals’ community programmes, how they operate across the year, and the ways they work with freelance artists. Attendees gained valuable insight into the vibrant festival year-round community activity, and better understand the required skill sets.

The Edinburgh Multilingual Cultural Guide for Artists and Creatives
An accessible and practical resource that’s now available in over 80 languages on the City of Edinburgh Council website. Developed in partnership between Creative Edinburgh and the City of Edinburgh Council.

Hidden Door Artists Development Programme
The Hidden Door Artist Development Programme is an exciting new initiative designed for artists and creatives across all disciplines, including visual art, dance, theatre, music and film.

Edinburgh Reimagined: The Future Will Be Localised
A thought-piece from Leith-based Morvern Cunningham around '[sowing] hope for a better arts sector'.

Freelance and Forgotten: A report on worker exploitation in Scotland's creative industries
While the creative industries are crucially important to Scotland’s economy and wellbeing, this report makes clear that Scotland’s creative industries must change if we are to protect and enhance the lives and livelihoods of the workers within them.

Scottish Enterprise: Ecosystem guide
Search Scotland's entrepreneurial ecosystem for the support your start-up, scale-up, or spin-out needs.

Fairer Recruitment Guide
Creative Scotland's handbook to support fairer work in creative and cultural industries.