Deadline: 5-May-23
Galway City Council Culture and Creativity Team are pleased to announce an open call for Galway based creative practitioners, organisations and communities of place and interest to submit applications for the Galway City Creative Communities Grant 2023.
The Creative Communities Programme is an initiative committed to enhancing access to, engagement with, and enjoyment of Ireland’s culture and creativity. Within the broad range of available definitions, creativity is considered as a set of innate abilities and learned skills; the capacity of individuals and organisations to transcend accepted ideas and norms and by drawing on imagination to create new ideas that bring additional value to human activity.
These grants are offered as part of Galway City’s Creative Communities Programme to deliver activities taking place in 2023. Please note that events should take place before the end of October.
Purpose and Objectives
- The Galway City Creative Communities Grant 2023 aims to support the implementation of the Creative Communities Galway City Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023-2027 Strategic Objectives.
- Applications will be assessed based on their ability to fulfil one or more of the below objectives:
- Strategic Objective 1: Access and Cultural Rights
- All strategies of Galway City Council will support actions and promote engagement of communities and individuals with culture and create opportunities for greater participation of marginalised populations in all aspects of arts and culture.
- NB: All actions will be expected to comply with this cross-cutting objective.
- Strategic Objective 2: Creative Youth and Children
- This objective will be achieved by ensuring longer term engagement of young people with Creative Ireland in the lead up to and following on from Cruinniú na nÓg as well as the identification of more opportunities for young people, especially older teenagers and young people under the age of 25 to influence the direction of creative activities for younger cohorts and to develop appropriate tools for youth stakeholder engagement, and feedback.
- Strategic Objective 3: Creative Communities
- Ensuring that communities of interest such as ethnic minorities, Travellers, people with disabilities, the homeless and other vulnerable groups are treated equally and do not face exclusion, will be a cornerstone of the whole Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023–2027. This strategic objective will reinforce these priorities.
- Strategic Objective 4: Creative Industries and Cultural Sector
- This objective will support collaborations with the organisations external to the council, as well as identify opportunities that can be led or promoted by the Council’s own Economic Development staff, such as support for creative hubs, creative feasibility studies and other initiatives, particularly in the realm of digital creation.
- Strategic Objective 5: Creative Health and Wellbeing
- This objective will seek to add a significant creative element to Healthy Galway initiatives in the community and seek to identify how the impact of the additional creative element can be evidenced.
- Strategic Objective 6: Creative Environment, Climate Action, and Sustainability
- This objective can facilitate actions to improve local neighbourhoods, bring poor infrastructure into new use, as well as partnering communities with climate experts, architects, landscapers and other design professionals to drive positive environmental changes.
- Strategic Objective 1: Access and Cultural Rights
Grant Scheme Strands and Eligibility Criteria
Applicants for the Galway City Creative Communities Grant are divided into two strands. Based on which strand you, or your group, most closely align with, you will be invited to indicate this on your application.
- Strand 1. Professional, collective, or organisation
- This strand of the funding scheme is aimed at Galway City-based individual professional creative practitioners, collectives and organisations that wish to develop and deliver collaborative community-centred projects based in the city of Galway. The grant can be used on research and development activities and/or the costs of implementing the project. The community at the centre of the proposed project should be actively involved in the proposed research and development activities and in delivery of the project.
- There is an allocation of up to €30,000 available under this strand.
- Grants of up to a maximum of €7,000 may be awarded.
- Please note that successful applicants may not receive full amount requested.
- Eligibility for Strand 1. Professional, collective or organisation
- Projects at all stages are eligible for this funding strand. This means that you can apply for research and development of your project idea and/or delivery of the project, given that:
- You are applying as a professional creative practitioner, collective or organisation;
- The project has a clear creative objective and promotes understanding of creativity in different contexts;
- The project is community-centred with a clear benefit of enabling creativity in communities;
- The project and the benefiting community are based in Galway City Council’s administrative area, the applicant is based in Galway City, or operates substantially within Galway City and is able to demonstrate this.
- You are submitting an original proposal or development work in relation to an existing activity that adds value to current creative projects;
- Proposed activities will take place in 2023;
- Proposed activities will be free to participate in and where possible, free to attend.
- Projects at all stages are eligible for this funding strand. This means that you can apply for research and development of your project idea and/or delivery of the project, given that:
- This strand of the funding scheme is aimed at Galway City-based individual professional creative practitioners, collectives and organisations that wish to develop and deliver collaborative community-centred projects based in the city of Galway. The grant can be used on research and development activities and/or the costs of implementing the project. The community at the centre of the proposed project should be actively involved in the proposed research and development activities and in delivery of the project.
- Strand 2. Community groups, of place or interest
- This strand of the funding scheme is aimed at Galway City-based community groups of place or of interest that wish to develop and deliver creative projects that promote active participation, understanding of creativity, and creative engagement within their communities.
- They favour collaborations and strongly encourage cross-sectoral projects, for example communities working with professional creative practitioners to guide their process of development and/or delivery. This can include show casing the cultural practices of the community to wider audiences outside their community. The project should demonstrate what is possible when working together.
- There is an allocation of up to €20,000 available under this strand.
- Grants of up to a maximum of €4,000 may be awarded.
- Please note that successful applicants may not receive full amount requested.
- Eligibility for Strand 2. Community groups, of place or interest
- Projects at all stages are eligible for this funding strand; this means that you can apply for development of your project idea and/or delivery of the project, given that:
- You are applying as a community group;
- The project has a clear creative objective and promotes understanding of creativity indifferent contexts;
- The community and the project are based in Galway City Council’s administrative area;
- You are submitting an original proposal or development work in relation to an existing activity that adds value to current creative projects;
- Proposed activities will take place in 2023;
- Proposed activities will be free to participate in and where possible, free to attend.
- Projects at all stages are eligible for this funding strand; this means that you can apply for development of your project idea and/or delivery of the project, given that:
For more information, visit Galway City Council.
