Inspire, an exciting new Lottery fund from the Scottish Arts Council launched on 12 February.

Inspire is an £8 million fund that has been developed as part of the Scottish Arts Council’s commitment to increasing participation and aims to provide more, wider, better engagement with the arts:

More: increasing the number and range of people enjoying and taking part in the arts, particularly arts activity for and by children and young people.

Wider: making the arts available to those who have had little opportunity to participate in the past; ensuring a fair geographic spread of activities; and supporting projects across artforms and technologies.

Better: increasing further the quality of arts activities by supporting creative, ambitious projects.

NB Roadshow comes to Eden Court Theatre 6 March, Ullapool 7 March – see website