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Make It Happen Fund
The Make It Happen Fund gives our most recent graduates access to a competitive pot of seed funding to support their career goals and ambitions.
This year, there are up to 20 awards available at a fixed amount of £1,500 each.
The current funding round invites all RCS alumni who graduated in Spring or Autumn of 2023, 2024 or 2025 to make an application.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday 24 September 2025 at 5pm!
The fund supports a wide range of early-stage development activity in areas such as: training, networking, testing ideas, starting up companies, staging pop-up events or digital performances, and forming new collaborations.
Read the full guidelines (PDF) and make an application
Read the quick read guidelines (PDF) and make an application
Watch the BSL version of the guidelines (video) and make an application
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.
CEDO is taking a short break over Summer and the Ideas Fund is currently closed for applications.
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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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