Book Week Scotland funding conditions

Essential information for individuals and organisations applying to the Book Week Scotland 2025 event fund.

• You can apply for one grant of £700 to programme an in-person or digital event
• An event should last roughly 1-1.5 hours
• We’d love it if events were connected to our theme of friendship – although there’s no requirement for them to be!
• You must work with an author or storyteller as part of your event. This could be to produce a commission or for an appearance fee
• If you invite a writer or storyteller to your event, they should be paid at the Live Literature rate of £200 per session
• Authors do not have to be part of the Live Literature Author Directory to take part in Book Week Scotland
• £200 is the minimum fee for the author you collaborate with. If you are planning to work on more than one element of your event with the author, an additional fee may be appropriate. Additional information on fees and commission rates will be provided to successful partners
• All financial support provided by Scottish Book Trust must be used to deliver the event. Funds received may not be used to support selling tickets for profit, to purchase book stock which will be sold at the event or activity, or any other profit generation
• We encourage all our partners to ensure their events are as accessible as possible by making them free to attend
• Events or activities may charge an admission fee on the condition that the money raised goes towards covering event expenses
• Successful partners are required to evaluate their event, usually through a short online survey. Evaluation support and information will be provided in our Book Week Scotland Handbook
• The deadline for all applications is by 5pm on Wednesday 11 June
• If your application is successful we will release your funding via BACS transfer in August.

Funding aims

Although every funding application is judged on its individual merits, our funding panel will look to support projects that help Book Week Scotland achieve some of its several key outcomes:

• Bringing communities together to share and celebrate the transformative power of books and reading
• Supporting bold, innovative and fun events that promote the benefits of reading and writing
• Reaching a wide a range of people and communities, including the most vulnerable or isolated, throughout every local authority in Scotland
• Creating a legacy for communities to continue enjoying books and reading together in the future