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Request for Applications: Creative Places Award (Ireland)

Deadline: 27-Mar-25

The Arts Council is requesting applications for the Creative Places Award to invest in places (e.g. towns, villages, suburbs, rural places) that have had fewer opportunities to take part in the arts.

Creative Places should be inclusive and diverse, and their programmes rooted in socially engaged arts practice and community-development principles. Successful applicants will build on existing cultural strengths and be led by community participation and ideas. In particular, they will look to involve people who are often excluded.

The award has three strands

  • Strand 1: Creative Places Seed Award
  • Strand 2: Creative Places Roots Award Phase 2
  • Strand 3: Creative Places Growth Award Phase 2
Funding Information
  • Strand 1: Creative Places Seed Award
    • This award will be multi-annual and awarded over three years (2025, 2025 and 2027). Strand 1 is open to Creative Places who have completed their Research and Development phase. The award covers the appointment of a Creative Places coordinator and a programme budget. The maximum you can apply for is €335,000 over three years (€85,000, €125,000, €125,000). In
  • Strand 2: Creative Places Roots Award Phase 2
    • This strand is only open to applicants who have completed their Creative Places three-year award and are now entering into the next phase of their development. This award will be for up to two years, and applicants need to demonstrate their stakeholder engagement and programming plans for 2025 and 2026. The maximum you can apply for is between €70,000 and €90,000 per year (i.e a total of €140,000 – €180,000).
  • Strand 3: Creative Places Growth Award Phase 2
    • This strand is only open to applicants who have completed year one of their Phase 2 programme. This award will be for up to two years, and applicants need to demonstrate their stakeholder engagement and programming plans for 2025 and 2026. The maximum you can apply for is between €70,000 and €90,000 per year (i.e. a total request of €140,000 – €180,000).
What may you not apply for?
  • You may not apply for more than one project-type award in this round of funding.
  • Costs that you may not apply for include the following:
    • Major capital purchases or investment into a capital project
    • Ongoing core costs; however, project-management costs as they relate to the delivery of the proposal are eligible
    • Costs that do not fit the purpose of the award
Who can apply? 
  • Strand 1 is open only to creative places that have completed their research-anddevelopment phase.
  • Strand 2 is open only to applicants who have completed their Creative Places three-year award and are now entering into the next phase of their development.
  • Strand 3 is open only to applicants who have completed year 1 of their Phase 2 programme.
  • Applicant arts organisations must be a CLG and demonstrate expertise in socially engaged arts practice. The arts organisation does not have to have an existing connection to the place, but public and community partners do.
  • Applicant community-development organisations must be located in the place proposed and be a CLG.
  • An organisation must be the lead applicant (not an individual), with a range of other partner organisations. The identification of the lead applicant is at the discretion of the partners.
  • The applicant is the organisation that will receive any grant offered and which will be required to accept the terms and conditions of that grant.
  • Any grant offered will be paid only into a bank account held in the name of the applicant.
  • All documentation provided must be in the name of the lead applicant.
Who cannot apply? 
  • Any organisation that does not fall within the categories above is not eligible to apply
  • Individuals are not eligible to apply.
  • Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media cannot be a lead applicant but may be a partner.

For more information, visit The Arts Council.