Arts

A V on the right hand side on this list means that the organisation is actively seeking volunteers.

Art in Healthcare
"Art in Healthcare works with healthcare communities throughout Scotland. Our original artworks and site-specific projects are available to Scottish hospitals and healthcare centres."

Artlink

"Artlink works hard to increase opportunities for individuals who experience disadvantage or disability to take part in the arts in Edinburgh and the Lothian region. We offer practical support to get you to the arts and work with venues to increase opportunities to enjoy the arts. We explore how the arts can work for you through establishing creative partnerships with artists and create possibilities to get involved in your community."

Benchtours
"benchtours is a leading Scottish international touring ensemble. Our mission is to present challenging and engaging work that will entertain and entice audiences, creating a lasting impression and a desire for more...Throughout the past ten years benchtours has been involved in a wide range of education and outreach projects."

Boilerhouse
"Boilerhouse is an award-winning Scottish touring theatre company dedicated to the creation of unique and spectacular performance events. Our aim is to enthral and excite audiences, and we perform in a variety of dramatically unusual indoor and outdoor locations, from clubs to car parks. "

Collective Gallery
"Collective are committed to supporting new visual artists through a programme of exhibitions and new commissions."

Craigmillar Community Arts Centre
"The Community Arts Centre has traditionally taken an active role in engaging local people in a broad range of creative activities; from acting and drama to photography and music. The Centre also works to support local artists by exhibiting their work."

Cutting Edge Productions
"Cutting Edge Theatre Productions is a diverse Company specialising in a number of areas such as Musical Theatre, Community Theatre, Overseas Childrens projects and a number of other projects. Our main aim is to bring Theatre to people who may not usually have access to it or have experienced it."

Edinburgh Community Arts
"Edinburgh Community Arts is a new website for voluntary and community arts groups in the Edinburgh area. This site is the place to find out about venues for hire, what other groups are doing and for putting up your events and group information on the internet."

Edinburgh Concert Band
"The Edinburgh Concert Band is a community group of amateur musicians, founded in 1988."

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The world famous summer festival.

Edinburgh Film Focus
"Edinburgh Film Focus is the local Film Commission for Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Scottish Borders. If you're working on a feature film, short film, TV drama, commercial, corporate, documentary, pop promo or stills shoot, we're here to help."

Edinburgh Printmakers
"Edinburgh Printmakers (EP) is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary printmaking practice. It achieves this by providing, maintaining and staffing an entrance free gallery and inexpensive, open access print studio, where artists and members of the public can use equipment and source technical expertise in order to develop their hands on printmaking skills."

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
"Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop was set up in 1987 by a group of sculptors to provide workspace and support for artists and to promote access to sculpture and visual arts."

Elements
"Founded in Edinburgh in 1992 by Artistic Director Lee Gershuny, The Elements devise and present collaborative performances and arts projects across art-forms, communities and cultures."

Federation of Scottish Theatre
"The Federation of Scottish Theatre exists to advance the interests of Scottish Theatre at home and abroad.
It is the membership organisation for the professional theatre sector in Scotland undertaking advocacy at a national level with government and funding bodies, co-ordinated initiatives and providing advice and services to members to secure the creative future of theatre in Scotland."

Festival City Theatres Trust
"Festival City Theatres Trust is responsible for the operation and management of two of Scotland’s major presenting venues – The Festival and King’s Theatres in Edinburgh. The Trust, which is a registered charity, was formed in July 1998 with the merger of the two theatres. It is the largest independent theatre management in Scotland."

The Forest
"The Forest is a volunteer-run, self-funded, independent, not-for-profit arts space located in the centre of Edinburgh. It is available to all people and is funded by its vegetarian cafe."

Fruitmarket Gallery
"The Fruitmarket Gallery brings artists and audiences together through exhibitions, commissions, interpretation, education and publishing."

Grid Iron
"Grid Iron Theatre Company, based in Edinburgh, is a multi-award winning theatre company committed to producing exciting new work in a variety of spaces and locations."

Hadeel
Crafts from community groups in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.

Hearts and Minds
"Aims to promote the quality of life of people in hospital and hospice care through the performing arts."

Imaginate
"An arts organisation that promotes and develops the performing arts for children and young people in Scotland."

Lung Ha's Theatre Company
"Lung Ha’s Theatre Company exists to provide opportunities for people with learning disabilities to become actively involved in the performing arts."

Meadows Festival Association
"The Meadows Festival Association is made up of representatives from the three local community councils, i.e. Tollcross, Marchmont and Sciennes and Southside, Friends of the Meadows and some interested members of the public."

The Mercators
"Small, but friendly, amateur theatre group based in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland."

New Media Scotland
"At New Media Scotland we support experimentation by practitioners in art and technology. By working with and supporting the presentation of work by artists in this field, we hope to foster greater public understanding of the role that technology is playing in contemporary culture."

North Edinburgh Arts
North Edinburgh Arts provide access to the arts via their award winning Arts Centre for residents of Greater Pilton.

Out of the Blue
"An arts and education trust based in Edinburgh."

Queen's Hall
"The Queen's Hall is a 900-seat concert hall in Edinburgh playing a key role in Scotland's cultural life. Bought and converted from a fine Georgian Church with 'A' listing status in 1979, it now presents and promotes live music in all its forms and is Edinburgh's only mid-scale venue equipped for this purpose. It seeks to present work of the highest quality across all types of music and regards all musical genres as being of equal value and worth. Our commitment is to make the annual programme accessible to all sectors of the community."

Royal Lyceum Theatre
"The Lyceum is Scotland’s leading producing theatre company. Committed to staging world-class drama, our repertoire features the biggest names in Scottish theatre in plays old and new, which are as brave as they are entertaining, challenging as they are life affirming."

Royal Scottish Academy
Tthe home of contemporary art in Scotland."

Scottish Arts Council
"Our Mission: To serve the people of Scotland by fostering arts of excellence through funding, development, research and advocacy."

Scottish Book Trust
"Scottish Book Trust is the leading agency for the promotion of literature in Scotland, developing innovative projects to encourage adults and children to read, write and be inspired by books."

Scottish Community Drama Association
Resources and training for community drama in Scotland.

Scottish Poetry Library
"The Scottish Poetry Library is the place for poetry in Scotland, for the regular reader, the serious student or the casual browser. Since its foundation in 1984 it has amassed a remarkable collection of written works, as well as tapes and videos. The emphasis is on contemporary poetry written in Scotland, in Scots, Gaelic and English, but historic Scottish poetry and contemporary works from almost every part of the world feature too."

Scottish Storytelling Centre
"The Scottish Storytelling Centre is proud to present a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre and literature, supported by exciting visual arts, craft and multi-media events. The programme aims to promote storytelling as a vibrant contemporary artform and celebrate Scotland’s rich storytelling heritage."

SCRAN
"Scran is a charitable online learning resource base with over 360,000 images and multimedia files from museums, galleries, archives and the media."

Traverse Theatre
"Traverse Theatre is Scotland's new writing theatre, with a record of excellence since 1963. With quality, award-winning productions and programming, the Traverse receives accolades at home and abroad from audiences and critics alike."

UNESCO City of Literature
Aims to raise awareness of books and literature in Edinburgh.

Whale Arts
"Whale is a voluntary sector, charitable organisation based in Wester Hailes in West Edinburgh. WHALE provides access to supported, professionally led arts activities for enjoyment, skills development and personal growth."