Creative Scotland Crowdmatch Grant Conditions

Set out below are our general conditions:

All recipients of match funding must agree that they have read the Terms and Conditions of National Lottery funding. A copy of these can be found at: https://www.creativescotland.com/resources-publications/applicant-and-recipient-materials/terms-and-conditions

Your data will be shared with our partner Creative Scotland. To find out more about how they use your personal information, please see their Privacy Notice: https://www.creativescotland.com/privacy-policy

Claiming your grant

You must draw down your grant through Crowdfunder within 3 months of the successful completion of your crowdfunding campaign, any funding not drawn down after 3 months will be deemed unspent and returned to Creative Scotland.

Your grant should be used for the specific purposes as set out on your Crowdfunder campaign page. If you are unable to use the grant for the purposes set out on your Crowdfunder campaign, you must promptly inform Creative Scotland to avoid potential invalidation of your Crowdmatch application, as significant alterations to your project may impact eligibility. We want to be able to support our creative industries, so we recognise that some changes may be necessary, but if any changes are not checked, we will cancel the award and seek to reclaim any funding already paid. Please notify us of any changes to your project by contacting [email protected] with ‘Crowdmatch Crowdfunding’ in your subject line.

Branding and Recognition 

Creative Scotland administers funding on behalf of the Scottish Government and the National Lottery. Everyone who receives funding from Creative Scotland is required to acknowledge the support they’ve received so that people can see when public funding has been used to support this work.

The recipient must acknowledge the match funding publicly in line with the requirements set out in Creative Scotland's Accreditation Guidelines which can be found here: https://www.creativescotland.com/resources-publications/applicant-and-recipient-materials/logos/creative-scotland

We may wish to use your campaign details and our grant to form part of a case study that we will publish on our website to show good-practice and provide support to other organisations wishing to crowdfund as an alternative source of funding. We will discuss and agree the content with you.

Evaluation

We want to understand the success of your project and to help with this we will ask you to complete a short impact report on your funded project, a link to the form will be sent to you approximately 8 weeks after your campaign closes. You may also be asked to take part in a short interview about your experience of the fund.

We reserve the right to withdraw, reduce, vary or withhold the grant, in whole or in part in the event of any failure to comply with the above and/or where the law is not being complied with.