Statement on Creative Scotland Funding

We were pleased last week to receive the news that A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has been accepted as part of Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding portfolio for the 2025-28 period. We welcome the stability this brings after an extended period of insecurity, for both ourselves and arts organisations across Scotland.

In real terms, PPP has been losing funding year-on-year since 2018, straining our model to breaking point. In that context, we welcome this new agreement with Creative Scotland that secures the future of the essential work we do – championing new writing, staging new plays, and employing more freelancers than any other theatre in Scotland.

Whilst this funding uplift will allow us to maintain our core activity, it is significantly less than what we requested, needed, and planned for.  We will now work with our board and staff team, with Creative Scotland and our partners to re-calibrate our plans for the funded period.

For all the challenges, we are excited to approach them in a more stable and cautiously optimistic period for theatre and the arts in Scotland. We congratulate the other organisations who will also receive Multi-Year Funding, especially those receiving annual funding for the first time. We also stand in solidarity with those organisations who were not successful, and with those communities whose access to theatre and the arts is, as a result, now under threat.