Deadline: 24-Oct-2025
The Dún Laoghaire‑Rathdown (DLR) County Council has opened applications for its Heritage Grant 2026, offering support to organisations, groups, and individuals with plans to promote and preserve heritage.
The funding can be used for projects in areas such as heritage research, surveys, exhibitions, publications or video, cultural events, and other initiatives that bring people closer to their shared history.
Heritage is understood broadly—both physical and intangible. Applicants are invited to explore not only architectural, archaeological, and documentation-based heritage but also musical traditions, languages, craft practices, sport, as well as landscapes, seascapes, parks, and ecological or geological formations. However, it is important to note that this grant cannot be used for structural or physical works on buildings or historic structures.
The maximum award per project is €5,000, and the funding will cover up to 70 percent of the project’s total costs. Projects must demonstrate public engagement, meaning the community must benefit in some visible or participatory way. Preference will be given to proposals that align with the DLR Heritage Plan 2021–2025 and those with strong organizational capacity to carry out their plans.
Applications must adhere to eligibility rules. The ideas proposed must clearly relate to heritage, must invite public participation, and cannot fund general operating expenses, travel or administrative costs, printed programmes soliciting advertising, off-site hospitality, prize money, loans or debt, fundraising costs, or the hire of council premises. Each proposal is assessed on public engagement, alignment with the heritage plan, and organizational capacity.
For more information, visit Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.