Resources

Our resources help people from the arts, heritage and creative industries to influence policies that impact on them.

Contents

• Useful Facts

• Open consultations

• Funding application resources

• MSP directory

• Local authority control database

• Policy positions

• Culture budget tracker

• Monitoring parliament and government for your organisation

• Cross-party groups

• Cultural manifesto for 2021

• Journal

Explore our interactive Useful Facts index of stats carefully drawn from over 100 recent research papers.

Find open inquiries from government and parliament. These are opportunties to share your views, research and stories with policy-makers.

We’ve identified Scottish Government policy areas that are often included in funding applications.

Our directory lists all current MSPs with links to their Scottish Parliament webpage.

Our database lists each council with details of which party is in power, and link to their page of councillors.

Read our recent letters to policy makers.

Keeping up with developments in parliament and government is key to successful advocacy. This is a list of resources helping cultural organisations to identify advocacy opportunities.

This interactive data visualisation lets you explore past Scottish Government culture budgets.

Culture Counts has established two Scottish Parliament Cross Party Groups (CPGs) for 2021-26. CPGs are groups of MSPs and Non-MSPs who are interested in a subject or issue.

This manifesto has been crowd-sourced by Scotland’s culture sector. We have identified 8 asks for the next Scottish Parliament & Scottish Government for the next 5-year parliamentary term.

Our monthly newsltter brings you up-to-date with policy-making across the arts, heritage and creative industries.