Up-and-coming performing art groups will benefit from a new culture fund launched by Edinburgh City Council.

The Culture Project Fund has awarded grants to 14 performing arts-based projects.

Groups benefiting from the fund range from circus and dance to theatre, digital arts, film and new writing projects.

Caitlin Skinner, Artistic Director of the Village Pub Theatre, said: "The Village Pub Theatre is over the moon to have been awarded a grant from the Council's Culture Project Fund.

"We have been bringing theatre to pub-goers in Leith since 2012, presenting short plays written by our diverse community of playwrights and this funding will allow us to turn what we have been doing informally on a small scale into a fully fledged theatre production."