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The Traverse Theatre’s Digital Content Developments
The Traverse Theatre wanted to develop the digital offering available to our online audience. We sought to streamline our digital platforms and incorporate regular high quality rich media content on a year-round basis, thereby increasing the online reputation of the Traverse Theatre and the quality of content for our digital audience. In early 2014, following an internal…
The Touring Network builds digital tools to measure CO2 of rural touring
The Touring Network works to support, represent and develop professional live performances happening in small-scale venues across the Highlands & Islands. Across such a vast geographic area, from Shetland to Argyll and Perthshire to Skye, the carbon costs of touring to remote and varied locations can be significant – not only are distances great but transport and buildings infrastructure is also often limited. In order to…
Music Plus Project Cuts Carbon
Music Plus piloted an innovative project to look at ways of cutting carbon emissions through online distance learning.
Applied Arts Scotland: Sustainable AmbITions
Applied Arts Scotland (AAS) is a membership organisation which supports the professional development of Scottish applied artists. AAS is going through fundamental change in the way it delivers its services and received Make:IT:Happen funds to take the opportunity to rethink communication and administration systems in order to be efficient and environmentally responsible. Please read more below on our Sustainable…
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland: digital development story
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland aims to transform lives through youth theatre by providing inspiring participatory opportunities for young people and by connecting, supporting and training the professionals who work with them. Our project was to develop a new online presence: a richer website which is easier to navigate and provides a welcoming and informative entry point…
Paragon Music report on their digital developments
Paragon Music in Scotland is using rich media to bolster the new website www.paragon-music.org and social media including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Vimeo in order to drive participation and audience engagement.
Vanishing Point’s AmbITion Approach
Vanishing Point undertook the AmbITIon Approach in order to map out plans for the organisation’s digital development.
Cinema City: history brought to life with digital development
Glasgow Film, comprising Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, is the west of Scotland’s leading independent cultural cinema.Glasgow Film’s Cinema City project connects visitors and residents to the fascinating cinema heritage of the city. Back in the cinema-going heyday of the 1930s, Glasgow had more cinemas per head than anywhere else in the world,…
Creative Stirling and AmbITion
Creative Stirling is a cultural social enterprise that is committed to being a learning organisation. AmbITion Approach funding allowed us to work with fantastic digital consultants and expertise which proved to be the basis of an invaluable learning process for the team. The external input provided a timely platform for us to look at our…
Library Out Loud: Glasgow Women’s Library’s Case Study
Glasgow Women’s Library is a vibrant information hub housing a lending library, archive collections and contemporary and historical artefacts that celebrate the lives, histories and achievements of women. We also support thousands of women across Scotland every year to improve their lives through our services and programmes, including support and activities that tackle a wide…
Artlink Central: AmbITion Approach journey
Artlink Central was supported via AmbITion Scotland’s AmbITion Approach fund. We used this resource to enable consultants to assist us in digital development, with the desired outcome of producing a thorough strategy document, with both short and long term plans for embedding the use of digital technologies within our organisation. Artlink management believed that while…
Archaeology Scotland – Digital Content Development
Archaeology Scotland is a charitable organisation, which works to secure the archaeological heritage of Scotland for its people through education, promotion and support. This project formed part of a wider digital development strategy that saw the upgrading and redevelopment of our entire website. This is our new homepage, which may be found at www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk –…
Car Share Skye – Sabhal Mòr Ostaig & Sustainable AmbITion
Reducing Carbon emissions by sharing car journeys Hello, from Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s Gaelic College, based in the Sleat peninsula in the south of Skye where we provide a venue to SEALL, a local arts organisation who provide a full program of arts events throughout the year. We were looking to work with SEALL to…
5 Life Lessons Learnt: Abbot House’s Organisational Development Grant
With its distinctive coral-pink harled exterior and lovely medieval garden, Abbot House is an unmissable visitor experience at the centre of Dunfermline’s fine heritage quarter. Currently in a transitional period, the heritage centre applied in 2013 for an Organisational Development Grant to help upgrade the digital skills and provision for staff, allowing them to better…
The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) – case study of The AmbITion Approach
The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s (NYOS) core mission is to provide high-level musical education and performance opportunities for young musicians in Scotland. NYOS is unique in that it provides orchestral experiences in classical and jazz music for its students from the age of 8 – 25, through no fewer than eight ensembles, ranging in…
Edinburgh International Science Festival Ambition Approach
Edinburgh International Science Festival’s Ambition Approach involved its whole team. Find out more about their digital journey.
Cupar Arts Festival’s AmbITion Approach
Read Cupar Arts Festival’s account of what they learned and how they’ve changed since undertaking the AmbITion Approach.