Deadline: 18-May-23
The Arts Council is inviting applications for the Capacity Building Support Scheme to support arts organisations to gain support, skills and expertise to review, strengthen and/or adapt their artistic and/or business models and support their strategic development in the medium to long term.
It supports activities that will assist in building capacity, in developing inclusivity,and/or in growing peer support and collaborations.
Funding Information
- Single applications can be made up to a maximum of €20,000
- Group/Consortia applications can be made up to a maximum of €30,000
What can be applied for?
- This is an open and flexible award, and they are open to proposals for any activities that will help build capacity, foster cooperation, and enable organisations to develop new ways of working and/or improve their current practice to reflect Arts Council policy priorities
- In particular, priority will be given to exceptional additional activites which grow your organisation’s capacity rather than your usual activities and programme.
- Priority will be given to proposals which which show clear potential to address one or more of the following
- strategic development
- improve governance capacityand practice
- assessing and understanding better the impact of your organisation’s work
- address policy priorities of the Arts Council – All awards and schemes are also informed by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy , the Place, Space & People Policyand Paying the Artist Policy.
- capacity building
- change/adapt operating and/or business models
- address climate action and environmental considerations,
- improve digital capacity,
- build organisations’ capacity in relation to reaching new and diverse artists, communities and audiences.
- Build organisations’ capacity for the ongoing assessment and improved understanding of the impact of your activities
- strategic development
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts organisations who have been funded by the Arts Council previously
- Groups of arts organisations who have been funded by the Arts Council previously (in these cases one organisation must act as the named applicant)
- In the case of arts organisations that do not have a historical funding relationship with the Arts Council, they will accept applications from arts organisations that are not for profit and formally constituted as CLGs, DACs or charities.
- It is possible that organisations may be part of one or more group/consortia applications while also applying as a single organisation, however they can only be the named (lead) applicant in one application. In these cases there must not be a duplication of purpose or activity across applications – e.g. an organisation may be part of a group/consortium that applies to the schemeto develop digital capacity, and then the organisation may make a separate application for costs of professional development for staff.
Ineligible
- Activities that have already taken place or will have commenced before a decision is made on your application
- Activities that could be supported by other government/public-agency supports (e.g. supports offered by Local Enterprise offices, other government agencies)
- Major building/capital costs
- Creation or development of artworks or arts activities
- Activities that have already received Arts Council support, either financially or through Arts Council capacity-building programmes (e.g. activities supported already by RAISE)
- You cannot make an application for work that has already been assessed or received support either through this or any other funding programme offered by the Arts Council unlessthe Council has specifically advised you to redirect your application to this award. Please bear in mind that such advice is not an indication of a successful outcome.
- Contributions toward current core staff costs are not eligible under this scheme. Costs associated with the delivery of the project are eligible and this does include consultancy or other additional resource costs.
For more information, visit Capacity Building Support Scheme.
