AmbITion Scotland Make:IT:Happen Fund

20th November 2012

Over £400,000 is available through AmbITion Scotland’s new Make:IT:Happen Fund.

The Make:IT:Happen Fund is part of the national digital development programme, AmbITion Scotland, and has been created to help Scottish organisations grasp the opportunities presented by digital technologies in order to grow business capability, capacity, creativity and confidence in these areas.

Make:IT:Happen funding offers support through four digital investment strands:

AmbITion Approach (up to £5,000) supports organisations during the early stages of their digital development by providing an external specialist to help them assess and develop a wide-reaching strategy for organisational change.

Digital Content Development (£500-£10,000) gives organisations the opportunity to enhance their digital development activity through the creation, or better use of digital content.

Organisational Development (£500-£10,000) supports organisations to take advantage of digital technologies to grow their businesses, develop ideas and improve operational capacity.

Sustainable AmbITion (£500 – £5,000) supports organisations to be carbon-aware and improve their green credentials through funding new digital technologies or approaches.

Make:IT:Happen funding can be used to support a project in its entirety or to augment a bigger digital ambition. Funds are available to not for profit arts, culture and heritage groups and organisations with relatively little or no digital knowledge/experience as well as well as to those that have some competence with digital projects, but limited resources.

There are five application periods between July 2012 and September 2013 as follows:

• July – September 2012 (now completed)

• October – December 2012 (decisions by 31 January 2013)

• January – March 2013 (decisions by 30 April 2013)

• April – June 2013 (decisions by 31 July 2013)

• July – September 2013 (decisions by 30 October 2013)

Each of the four digital development funding strands has its own individual application deadline date. The deadlines for the second application period are as follows:

• AmbITion Approach: 2 December 2012

• Digital Content Development: 18th November 2012

• Organisational Development: 16 December 2012

• Sustainable AmbITion: 16 December 2012

Funded by The National Lottery via Creative Scotland (as part of Creative Scotland’s Cultural Economy programme), the AmbITion Scotland programme and the Make:IT:Happen Fund are designed and delivered by Culture Sparks and Rudman Consulting.

Full Make:IT:Happen information, funding guidelines and application forms at: www.getambition.com

For further information, please contact ela[AT]culturesparks.co.uk (Ela Zych-Watson), or call 0141 248 6864.