Call for Applications: Neighborhood/Voluntary Arts Grants 2025 (Ireland)

The Purpose of the Arts Grants Programme of DCC is to support Arts Practice, Arts Participation, and Audience Development in the DCC Administrative Area through focusing the funding on requests for developmental projects, training and vocational support for Artists, community development outcomes through quality Arts actions or process with an overarching emphasis on diversity and equality of opportunity.

Funding Information

• Grant range for Neighborhood/Voluntary Arts Grants: €2,000 to €10,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Neighborhood Grants:
  • Neighborhood Grants 2025 supporting Arts ​Projects or Programmes that begin with residents, local community organisations or groups interested in the Arts and/or with Artists living in or interested in working in particular neighborhoods. All Projects must have strong collaboration between Artists and neighborhood participants.
  • Neighborhood Grants should support local arts activity, local identity and be relevant to a local area. Specific groups such as young or older people could be identified to ensure both culturally diverse and socially inclusive interests are addressed by the grant.
• Voluntary Grants:
  • These grants support Arts programmes or projects  by Voluntary organisations or groups engaging professional Artists that significantly advance the Artistic ambition of the organisation or groups activities.

Assessment Criteria

• No applications will be accepted later than this date and time.
• Your application will be processed by members of the Arts Office Administrative team. Any applications that clearly fall outside the eligibility guidelines and criteria may be eliminated at this point. Dublin City Council reserves the right to redirect applications for consideration to appropriate categories other than those applied for, should it be deemed beneficial to the applicant to so do.
• All applications will be considered by the Arts Officer Team reporting to the City Arts Officer. Independent Assessors (with relevant experience and expertise) support the Art Officer Team who will make recommendations on all eligible applications.
• Assessment of Neighborhood, Voluntary & Community Mentoring Applications will be supported by the Area Offices of Dublin City Council through their Community Development section. All applications will then be assessed by a sub-committee of Elected Members of Dublin City Council from the Strategic Policy Committee.
• An external assessor reviews the application process before the applications are submitted to the Elected Members.  When approved by the sub-committee of Elected Members, final approval is sought from full meetings of the Elected Members of Dublin City Council.

For more information, visit Dublin City Arts Office.