Entries open for Children and Young People’s Arts Project Award (Ireland)

Deadline: 24-Jul-25

Entries are now open for the Children and Young People’s Arts Project Award to support specific artistic projects in children and young people’s arts.

It focuses on enabling individual artists and organisations to bring their ideas to fruition and create excellent artistic work.

Objective

• The purpose of the Children and Young People’s Arts Project Award is to support artists to develop and deliver ambitious and original projects with and for children and young people. Projects may be interdisciplinary or focused on a specific art form.

Priorities

• Strategic priority across all strands will be given to:
  • Proposals that enable artists and arts workers from diverse communities to play a central role in the development and delivery of projects
  • Proposals that enable children and young people from diverse backgrounds to engage in exciting, dynamic artistic projects
  • Proposals that enable children and young people with a disability to engage in exciting, dynamic artistic projects
  • Proposals that enable children and young people to have a voice in the development, delivery and evaluation of projects

Categories

• Early Childhood Project Award: Ambitious and original projects that engage children aged 0–6 in the arts.
• Childhood Project Award: Ambitious and original projects that engage children aged 7–12 in the arts.
• Transitions Project Award: Ambitious and original projects that enable children and young people at a key transition stage in their lives to engage in the arts.
• Connections Project Award: Projects that connect young artists and recent graduates aged 18+ with established arts organisations and arts infrastructure in Ireland.

Funding Information

• You may apply for up to €100,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The award is open to professional artists and organisations working to engage children and young people in the arts who are resident or based in Republic of Ireland.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Applicants who are not eligible to apply include the following:
  • Organisations currently in receipt of funding under the following Arts Council programmes: Strategic Funding, Arts Centre Funding, Partnership Funding – though the involvement of such organisations as partners is welcome
  • Organisations or individuals in receipt of 2026 Arts Grant Funding
  • National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) (or their Council members) directly funded by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport
  • Individuals or organisations who do not have a demonstrable track record as professional artists or organisations.

For more information, visit The Arts Council.