Edinburgh Bursary 2025

You will be a professional producing company or creative professional based and currently developing work in Wales. 

With limited bursaries available, we don’t expect to be able to support more than one representative of a producing company. 

If your company is a current Arts Council Wales Multi Year Funded organisation and regularly attend Edinburgh Festival Fringe, you can apply for a bursary to support a member of the team who would not usually attend but would benefit from the opportunity.  

Please see eligibility guidelines for detailed information. 

https://arts.wales/funding/individuals

https://arts.wales/funding/funding-for-organisations

You won’t be able to apply for funding if you’re in default of any financial agreement with Arts Council of Wales.

Individual bursary: 

A bursary of up to £1,500 to cover expenses, such as transport, per diems, performance tickets and a contribution towards your time.  Accommodation will be provided as part of the bursary offer. 

For those working for an organisation in receipt of Arts Council Wales Multi Year Funding: a bursary of £1,000 to cover expenses, such as transport, per diems and performance tickets. Accommodation will be provided as part of the bursary offer.

or 

Group bursary:

We can consider applications on behalf of a small group where there is a clear rationale on the benefit of attending as a group. (Maximum 6 people). This would still be a bursary of £1,500 per person attending but can also include the lead applicant’s administration and coordination time to support the group. Accommodation will be provided as part of the bursary offer.

The lead applicant will be a producing company or creative professional with experience of presenting and networking at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will be supporting a small cohort of emerging creative professionals with little or no previous experience of participating in the Festival Fringe. 

You (and members of the group) must be available to attend between 15 August 2025 to 21 August 2025 to connect with UK and international partner events. 

Personal access costs

If you require personal access support to help you attend, we can consider these in addition to the bursary. Please give us an indication of what these costs might be. 

• informal opportunities to come together as a Welsh delegation
• access to information about UK and international networking opportunities and events. We will be working with our partners at Fringe Society, British Council, other UK nations, as well as our international network, to bring together opportunities to connect with the UK and international sector at the Fringe. 

• engagement in Fringe performances, relevant networking opportunities and events.
• acknowledgement of funding, including online and social media posts whilst at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
• a short evaluation report after your visit.

The deadline to apply is 1pm, Wednesday, 4 June 2025.

Your decision will be with you by no later than Friday, 20 June 2025. 

We are looking to support applicants that can benefit the most from attending the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. We will assess the anticipated impact of this opportunity on you, your career and/ or company. 

Tell us about: 

• you and your creative practice.
• why you are interested in attending Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year and what you hope to achieve out of the opportunity.
• what you see as the potential impact for you from connecting with UK and international networks/ partners.
• if you are applying for a group bursary, tell us about the number attending, the rationale for attending as a group, how you will select and support the group of emerging creative professionals and any additional costs you will incur to make this happen. 

Please submit a 500-word limit proposal responding to the criteria above. You must also attach in the Supporting Documents section of the online form an up-to-date CV and links to relevant websites or online material. 

A group bursary application can submit an additional supporting document (up to 5 pages of A4) that gives further information on the group and rationale for attending. 

You can find a template of the application form in the Help section.

Within the Project Proposal section

• in the first text box, please simply put Edinburgh Bursary 2025
• in the second text box, which asks you to provide information about your project, you should respond to the criteria noted for this scheme. This text box has a 500-word limit. 

A group bursary application can submit an additional supporting document (up to 5 pages of A4) that gives further information on the group and rationale for attending. 

Please include the following Supporting Documents: 

• up-to-date CV
• links to relevant websites or online material
• group bursary document (if relevant)

Arts Council of Wales makes information available in large print, braille, audio, Easy Read and British Sign Language. We’ll also try to provide information in languages other than Welsh or English on request. 

If you need access support, you can find out more about what we can do and how to arrange it here. 

Eligibility for individuals

Eligibility for organisations

Access support

Art form definitions

Application process

If you’ve read this information and still have a question, please first check the FAQs as it might be answered there. 

If you need further information, then email your query to elin.roberts@arts.wales