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= Creative Edinburgh = Creative Edinburgh is a membership organisation to represent the creative sector in Edinburgh set up in 2011 (after two earlier attempts). It has a board to support its decision making and a small core staff team to support membership of over 5000 creatives. It receives funding from Creative Scotlan d. Previous directors were Janine Mathieson, Lynsey Smith,Yasmin Suleiman, Briana Pegado with Ola Wojtkiewicz as current director. It acts as both a representative organisation for creatives at regional (Edinburgh City Council) and national (Scotland) level. It represents creatives from across the creative industries, from graphic designers, filmmakers, artists, musicians, craft makers...

Creative Edinburgh focusses on supporting freelances, self employed and micro-businesses.There are approximately 5500 creative companies in Edinburgh and about the same in Glasgow with the other 5300 shared across Borders, Central Belt and the Highlands ad Islands.

There are similar organisations in Scotland that represent creatives regionally such as Creative Dundee, set up in 2008, CABN (since 2009) in the Scottish Borders, Creative Stirling (since 2012), XpoNorth in the Highlands and Islands, DGU in Dumfries and Galloway, Create in Fife , Creative Entrepreneurs Club in Glasgow (which grew out of Cultural Enterprise Office ) and AB+ in Aberdeen (2012)