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Make It Happen Fund
The Make It Happen Fund is available to RCS alumni who are within 3 years of graduation.
The fund gives our most recent graduates access to a competitive pot of seed funding to support their career goals and ambitions.
The fund aims to create access to a source of funding that will support our graduates’ early-stage career development in a range of areas like training, networking, testing ideas, starting up companies, staging pop-up events or digital performances, and forming new collaborations.
This fund is now closed for 2024 – 2025.
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Ideas Fund
The Ideas Fund provides students at RCS with resource and support to explore new ideas, extend their practice, produce their own work, and take their first steps into creative enterprise.
The idea can be big or small. It could be an artistic idea, something you want to produce, an idea driven by social or community impact. The idea could also be related to the development of your career or could help you earn a living as an artist.
Wraparound support and mentoring by the Creative Enterprise Development Office will support awardees to further develop their idea and plan for their next steps.
Awards are a fixed rate of £500 and up to 2 awards can be made monthly throughout the academic year.
Company Creation Fund
Open to all RCS Staff, this funding opportunity is designed to help staff take their first steps towards the development of a creative enterprise. This competitive fund is intended for company creation and business development and can support research and development activities related to starting up your enterprise. It is not intended for creative project development.
Successful applicants will also receive wraparound support and mentoring through the Creative Enterprise Development Office to further develop their idea, and plan for their next steps.
Awards can be up to £2,000 and applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Read the Company Creation Fund guidelines and make an application
Creative Launch Fund
Open to RCS Academic Staff, The Creative Launch Fund is a fund for early-stage innovation projects in the Creative Arts and Humanities, funded by Strength in Places fund from Glasgow City Region, Scottish Funding Council, the University of Glasgow’s Innovation Fund, and the Entrepreneurial Campus.
It is offered in partnership with the University of Glasgow, the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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