Dear Creative Scotland,

There is much public interest in the good work done by bodies like Creative Scotland. I am working on '360 giving' a philanthropic project to help people make better grants, by giving them more information about grants others have made as open data. See http://threesixtygiving.com/ I have worked with BIG Lottery to help them publish their grant information.

I am grateful to you for providing the facility on your website to download a spreadsheet of recent grants. However seek a historic time series and more information than you provide in your summaries.

I should be grateful for a spreadsheet/csv file of your grants made for the last five financial years as open data. I should like to know the:
name of the recipient organisation,
name of responsible person
date of grant,
purpose of grant/description,
address of recipient including post code,
company or charity number of recipient,
scheme/programme under which grant was made,
'route' as you describe it
source of funds (eg lottery, exchequer etc).

I should be only too happy to answer any questions you might have that might make it easier to respond to this request.

If you can respond to this request in part then please do so rather than blocking the request in toto.

Yours faithfully,

william perrin