The creative charity said “creative community of Shetland has some amazingly brilliant ideas”.

An island arts charity has said it is to focus on putting money into the hands of local creative talent. 

Shetland Arts received two major funding boosts over the last six months, first from Shetland Charitable Trust (SCT), then Creative Scotland, and is looking to ensure creatives can get the money they need to deliver their works.

In total, the charity received over £1.4million.

Chief executive Graeme Howell told the Shetland News that while ten projects received a share of £46,000 through the charity’s Creative Shetland fund in February, they had had 47 applicants who had bid for £350,000 in funding for their projects.

He told the newspaper: “The main thing we want to do with the Creative Scotland funding is continue to focus on commissioning.

“We want to move that money through into creative’s hands through performances, or workshops, or anything like that.

“The thing we’ve learned over the last five years is the creative community of Shetland has some amazingly brilliant ideas.

“To continue commissioning them to do what their passions are, to do what they’re good at, is really what we want to focus on.”