Maker Community

Jerwood Visual Arts is a national programme supporting visual arts practice, through which Jerwood Charitable Foundation works with early career artists to commission and present new work. 

Liberis provide small business finance in the form of a Business Cash Advance, based on advancing your future customer credit and debit card payments. It enables businesses to access between £2.5k and £300k, which you only repay as your customers pay you. 

Local Heroes is a not-for-profit, independent organisation founded in 2016 by design curator Dr Stacey Hunter. Local Heroes is run on a project-by-project basis and promotes Scottish design at home and internationally.   

Make Works started because founder Fi Scott wanted to make fabrication in Scotland more accessible for artists, designers and makers. Now they teach passionate people in other places how to do the same!

The Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship is an international non-profit entity that celebrates and preserves master craftsmanship and strengthens its connection to the world of design.         

North Lands Creative is a unique studio organisation and gallery in Lybster, Caithness. Their focus is on contemporary glass; they have a national importance in developing glass in the UK. North Lands Creative facilitates and supports professional artists to make new art work. It also offers a highly visible and accessible programme of talks, events and education activities around the studio and gallery that engages visitors with artists and art-making.