A total of £2.6 million in grant funding has been awarded towards the development of Scotland's first Creation Centre.

Last month a number of pledges were made for the £4.9m Briggait Creation Centre project in Glasgow.

These include over £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), £1m from Creative Scotland and £622,000 from the Scottish Government's Regeneration Capital Grant Fund.

In addition, the city council has already promised £1m.

The project, led by Wasps Artists' Studios, will complete the regeneration of the Grade A-listed Briggait, providing a dedicated base for dance and the expanding physical performance sector.

Once completed, it will become a hub for 600 professional artists, physical performers and dancers as well as home to five different arts organisations.


Key features include:

• Five dance/physical performance studios from 1,200 sq ft to 5,000 sq ft

• Scotland's first dedicated workspace for physical performance

• Scotland's first space specially equipped for flying trapeze

• A new public dance facility for Glasgow

• Exemplar inclusive studio and changing facilities for disabled users

• A social enterprise café

• Facilities for 12,000 participants to improve their health and wellbeing

• 100,000 visitors per year to the Briggait

• An inclusive dance studio with hoist and tracking systems and a registered 'Changing Places' toilet for disabled people.

Philip Deverell, Director of Strategy at Creative Scotland, said: "The Briggait Creation Centre will be a significant addition to our national arts infrastructure and cultural landscape providing a dedicated facility for performance arts and dance, and will be the largest of its kind in Scotland.

"The development will reinvigorate the wider Briggait complex and make it a genuinely public facing building, breathe life into the Clyde Waterfront in the heart of Glasgow, and inspire people of all ages to engage in physical activity and creative performance."

(LM/JP)