Submissions open for Arts Grant Funding – Ireland

Arts Grant Funding is intended to:

• Support more than one distinct arts activity taking place within a fixed period of time, or
• Provide supports or facilities to artists over a fixed period of time.

Objectives of the Programme

• The focus of Arts Grant Funding is to deliver arts activity and programmes that either:
  • Generate high-quality experiences for the public to engage with the arts, or
  • Provide excellent services, resources or facilities that support the work of artists or the arts sector.

Funding Information

• No upper limit has been set on the amount that you may apply for. However, the Arts Council operates under budgetary constraints and the scheme is very competitive. They also need to ensure support for a wide range of artforms and arts-practice areas.

Who can apply?

• Arts Grant Funding is open to:
  • Organisations, including companies limited by guarantee (CLG), designated activity companies (DAC), partnerships, etc.
  • Individuals (if two or more people want to make a joint application, one of them must act as the named applicant).
• Note: if you are applying as an individual, you must show that your proposal involves collaboration with other artists and activities that include the delivery of public outcomes and/or outcomes that benefit other artists.
• To be eligible to apply, you must be:
  • Based/resident in the Republic of Ireland. They may consider your application if you are based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, your application would have to convince them that your proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
  • Professional practising artists. Even though you might not earn income continuously or exclusively from your arts practices, you must identify yourselves and be recognised by your peers as professional practising artists.

Who cannot apply?

• You cannot apply if you are an undergraduate student or will be during the period for which this funding is offered
• You cannot apply for costs towards the fees for postgraduate studies or to develop work that is connected to postgraduate studies
• You cannot apply as an individual if you work on a full-time basis with an organisation that is funded by the Arts Council or directly by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
• Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media cannot apply.

For more information, visit The Art Council.