Deadline: 11-May-23
The Arts Council is now accepting applications for its Arts Grant Funding Programme to ensure that there is a breadth of high-quality arts activity and programmes throughout the country by offering flexible support that responds to the needs of those who are making, presenting and supporting work.
It offers flexible support for a fixed period of time, and in so doing responds to the needs of those who are making, presenting and supporting work.
Purpose
- Arts Grant Funding is intended to:
- Support more than one distinct arts activity taking place within a fixed period of time, or
- Provide supports or facilities to artists over a fixed period of time.
Objectives
- The focus of Arts Grant Funding is to deliver arts activity and programmes that either:
- Generate high-quality experiences for the public to engage with the arts, or
- Provide excellent services, resources or facilities that support the work of artists or the arts sector.
- For example, a proposal might consist of:
- A series of distinct activities that may be related by theme, artistic vision or rationale
- A number of distinct projects and activities bound together by a particular focus (e.g. work in a particular artform or work targeted at a particular audience or community)
- The provision of training, support and/or resources or facilities for artists
- Programmes that develop or nurture talent
- The provision of opportunities for diverse audiences and/or particular publics to engage with arts activity
Funding Information
- No upper limit has been set on the amount that you may apply for. However, the Arts Council operates under budgetary constraints and the scheme is very competitive.
- They also need to ensure support for a wide range of artforms and arts-practice areas.
- The average grant over the previous three rounds of the programme was c.€62,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts Grant Funding is open to:
- Organisations, including companies limited by guarantee (CLG), designated activity companies (DAC), partnerships, etc.
- Individuals (if two or more people want to make a joint application, one of them must act as the named applicant).
- To be eligible to apply, you must be:
- Based/resident in the Republic of Ireland. They may consider your application if you are based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, your application would have to convince us that your proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
- Professional practising artists. Even though you might not earn income continuously or exclusively from your arts practices, you must identify yourselves and be recognised by your peers as professional practising artists.
Note: if you are applying as an individual, you must show that your proposal involves collaboration with other artists and activities that include the delivery of public outcomes and/or outcomes that benefit other artists.
For more information, visit Arts Council.