A new National Lottery-funded pathway programme is helping cultural and creative organisations across Scotland adapt the buildings they own to the impacts of climate change.
The fund, co-designed and managed by Creative Scotland and public sector infrastructure body, the Scottish Futures Trust, is providing eight organisations with a total of £347,520 to make practical improvements to the buildings they own, and adapt to the impacts of climate change while generating learning to inform future investment in Scotland’s cultural and creative estate.
The fund focuses on adaptations that will increase the resilience of properties facing growing risks from heavier rainfall, stronger winds, rising temperatures and changing weather patterns.
When launched in February 2026, the programme attracted strong interest from across the sector, with 38 expressions of interest from 37 organisations spanning 19 local authority areas. And following a competitive two-stage process, 16 organisations were invited to submit full applications, with eight projects selected for funding.
The projects demonstrate the wide range of climate risk affecting Scotland’s cultural and creative estate and the practical measures organisations are taking to ensure buildings remain safe, welcoming and operational for artists, audiences and communities.
Across the projects, organisations are responding to practical pressures already affecting day-to-day use, from studios becoming too cold or too hot to use, damp, damaged access routes and drainage pressure caused by heavier rainfall.