Deadline: 9-Jun-23
Minister Catherine Martin has announced the Creative Youth Nurture Fund to support organisations that can reach specific groups of young people that are seldom heard.
The Creative Youth Nurture Fund is a pilot scheme that will support youth-led cultural, artistic and creative engagement by young people aged between 6-24 years
They take a very broad view of creativity. As long as children and young people have a key role in their development, the Creative Ireland Programme invites projects of creative or interpretive expression (whether traditional or contemporary) from across the arts, cultural and creative sectors. These are comprised of all sectors whose activities are based on cultural values, or other artistic individual or collective creative expressions. It may include, but is not limited to:
- Circus
- Film
- Literature
- Creative writing
- Music (all genres)
- Dance (all types)
- Street arts and spectacle theatre
- Traditional arts
- Visual arts
- Cultural heritage
- Cooking
- Animation
- Architecture
- Podcasting
- Graffiti
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Fashion
- Comedy
- Design
- Games and other creative digital technology
- Multidisciplinary arts
Funding Information
- €500,000 is available across two years to support projects. It is expected that between 8 -10 pilot projects in the Republic of Ireland with budgets of between €50,000 — €90,000 will be funded for 18-24 months in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants should be able to demonstrate:
- a commitment to supporting children and young people to access culture, creativity and the arts.
- how they can reach and support children and young people who experience barriers to access creative opportunities, in particular those within one of the priority groups listed below;
- how you will ensure children and young people are at the heart of decision making in the development of the creative initiative using best practice outlined in the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-making
- how you will support engagement by children and young people across the form(s) of creativity; and
- how you will evaluate and report on the process and outcomes, with input from the children and young people involved.
- Proposals are invited from organizations, individuals or partnerships with experience of working with the following groups of children and young people:
- Living with physical or intellectual disabilities;
- Refugees and asylum-seekers;
- Living with mental health issues
- LGBTI+;
- Traveller and Roma;
- Those within, or transitioning from, the care system; or
- Engaged with the youth justice system/ incarcerated persons and ex-offenders (up to age 24).
For more information, visit Creative Ireland.
