Access to Culture: Edinburgh’s Creative Community Hubs
The City of Edinburgh Council’s Creative Community Hubs project has built a network of eight locally rooted hubs that foster inclusive cultural participation, address systemic barriers in collaboration, and.
How Edinburgh embedded carbon management reporting for cultural institutions
Edinburgh is embedding carbon reporting into cultural funding, with its arts sector cutting emissions, trialling climate innovations, and influencing policy to help drive the city’s net zero transition.
Tourism Tax: Edinburgh is introducing the UK’s first Visitor Levy
From July 2026, Edinburgh will introduce the UK’s first Visitor Levy, generating sustainable funding for culture, heritage, infrastructure, and community wellbeing while promoting responsible tourism and strengthening the city’s.
How Can Cities Scale Up Creative Approaches to Health?
The benefits of culture to our health are well-known. Whether through performing arts for dementia patients in Edinburgh, museum prescriptions for mental health in Montreal, or art therapy for.
Fuelling Edinburgh’s artistic fire: how Edinburgh is meeting artist’s needs
Edinburgh's performers lacked a community network to enable them to share knowledge and support each other. A council funded programme is connecting the city's artists and helping them to.
A new tune: policymakers collaborate with the live music scene to future-proof the sector
With music venues closing, the live music community in Edinburgh needed support to enable a thriving live music scene and encourage a more supportive environment for live events.
TRENDS
Tourism Growth
Tourism is growing in Edinburgh and is an important contributor to its economy, providing over 34,800 jobs and generating £1.4 billion in visitor spend. Visitor numbers grew by.
INFRASTRUCTURE
A new concert hall, The Impact Centre, opened in the city centre at St Andrew Square in 2021. The 1,000 seater concert hall is the permanent home for the.
Edinburgh
Scotland's visitor attractions received over 30 million visits in 2017, with seven of the top 10 most visited attractions located in Edinburgh, including renowned sites like Edinburgh Castle and.
From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to The Marriage of Figaro: dementia-friendly performances in Edinburgh
Edinburgh is opening hearts and minds by creating a supportive performance environment for audiences living with dementia.