We Are Here Scotland is a Community Interest Company founded by Aberdeen-based creative practitioner Ica Headlam. We create spaces and opportunities with Black and Global Majority people across Scotland's creative industries.

Our work is delivered by a team of industry practitioners based across Scotland and covers everything from collaborative projects and professional development to mentoring, showcases, community gatherings, and wellbeing research.

We are a small organisation, and we know it. That matters to us, because it means we are part of the same wider community we work alongside, one that continues to face real challenges around visibility and genuine accountability around representation. We have never believed those challenges can be addressed by any single organisation working alone. The only way this works is if it is genuinely collective, led by our community and shaped in partnership with our peers, so that what we do together is intersectional and actually responsive to what people need.

For five years, we have worked in solidarity with Black and Global Majority communities to help counter the significant underrepresentation that exists in Scotland's creative industries. This has always been, and will always be, collective work. Creatives across our community are already doing so much themselves. Our role is simply to show up alongside them, supporting people, nurturing connections, and adding to the collective effort to shift Scotland's cultural landscape.

We hope that the work we do together continues to reflect what our community already knows: that representation in Scotland's creative industries is not optional. It never was.