Deadline: 19-Jan-23
Cork County Council is inviting applications for funding under the Cork County Local Festival Fund 2023, a competitive grant scheme to support the development of festivals that drive domestic tourism in Cork County and help to improve the visitor experience.
This scheme is operated by Cork County Council for the purposes of providing financial or other assistance to individuals and organisations engaged in the promotion of arts activities or events in the cork County administrative area.
Grant assistance will be awarded only where applications meet the artistic and financial requirements set down by Cork County Council. The principles governing the operation of the Arts Grants Scheme are set out in the 2003 Arts Act, which enables a local authority to make financial or other assistance available for the purposes of:
- Stimulating public interest in the arts
- Promoting knowledge, appreciation and promotion of the arts
- Improving standards in the arts
Cork County Council’s Arts Grant Scheme provides specific grant streams for
- General Arts Grants;
- Schools Arts Projects;
- Creative project proposals made by artists and
- Irish Language based Arts: to support individual artists or arts groups to create a new work or promote an arts event or activity that is Irish Language based.
Objectives
- To support the work of locally based arts organisations
- To build new audiences for the arts
- To support work of high artistic quality
- To encourage new and innovative arts projects
- To support the involvement of professional artists and organisations in community based arts projects.
- To support the involvement of all sections of the community in the arts
- To support the improvement of the quality of life for communities.
Funding Information
- The maximum available funding is €6,000 under this programme.
Eligible Festivals
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To be eligible for funding, festivals must fit into one of the following categories:
- Heritage Festivals
- Family Focus Festivals
- Literary Festivals
- Arts, Music and Theatre Festivals
- Food and Drink Festivals
- Sports Festivals.
What are the qualifying conditions & minimum eligibility thresholds?
- The Festival must generate a minimum of 450 visitor bed nights in paid accommodation
- The project has a minimum expenditure of €7,500
- The Festival Programme must include high quality content and be professionally designed
Note: There is no guarantee of funding for applications which achieve the minimum eligibility requirements. The fund is limited and all eligible applications will be evaluated on a competitive basis against the criteria set out.
Ineligible
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The following festivals and events are not eligible for funding:
- Purely commercial events
- Events with limited tourism appeal.
For more information, visit Local Festival Fund.