Financial support

The Arts Council offers a wide range of financial supports across artforms and arts practices, including music (as listed below). You can find further information on those and other supports, direct and indirect, in the financial support section.

 
NameDecision DateMaximum Awarded €Abstract
Annual fundingClosing date passedUnlimitedThe purpose of annual funding is to provide stable and secure funding to certain arts organisations (on an annual basis). Applicants may request a contribution towards both operating and artistic programming costs.
Annual programming grantClosing date passedUnlimitedThe purpose of the annual programming grant is to assist applicants with the costs of their artistic programme. The scheme is not intended to provide support for ongoing operating/administrative costs.
Artist in the community scheme bursary awardClosing date passed10000The arts and disability bursary award, as part of the artist in the community scheme, aims to support an individual professional artist in any artform working in the field of arts and disability.
Circus bursary awardClosing date passed12000 
EU Local Partnership schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedFor project activities and events taking place 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2013 inclusive. To mark Irelands Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this special issue of the Local Partnership Scheme is intended to support Local Authorities and Ealaín na Gaeltachta to develop or carry out innovative collaborative arts projects in co-operation with arts organisations within their localities or regions, and with partners elsewhere in Europe.
Festivals and events schemeClosing date passed20000The Arts Council has introduced a new scheme to support festivals and events. The scheme will be open to multi-disciplinary festivals and single artform festivals. Events may be one-off projects or programmed over a number of months.
Location one fellowshipClosing date passed22500A 5-month fellowship based in New York
Music bursary awardClosing date passed15000The award supports professional individual artists in the field of Music to develop their arts practice.
Music commissions awardClosing date passed10000The music commissions award is focused on partnerships. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate partnerships between commissioners and artists that result in some form of creative output.
Music project awardClosing date passed35000This award supports projects in the field of music commencing in 2013.
Music recording schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThe scheme provides support for professional performers and composers in Ireland through funding for music recording.
RAISEClosing date passed100000RAISE is a fundraising capacity building initiative. RAISE will provide one-to-one professional support to eight arts organisations for two years, planning and implementing a tailored fundraising programme. The Arts Council is calling for expressions of interest from its funded organisations typically these will be in receipt of RFO, Annual Funding or Annual Programme Grant.
Regularly funded organisationsClosing date passedUnlimitedThe purpose of this programme is to strengthen and make more secure a group of key arts organisations, by contributing to both their operating and artistic programming costs. This funding programme is not open to general applications. Instead, the Arts Council will invite organisations to participate on the basis of published criteria.
Touring and dissemination - advance planningClosing date passedUnlimitedThe Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work across a range of artforms and arts practices due to take place in between January 2014 and December 2014.
Touring and dissemination of work schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThis scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in certain arts disciplines starting between January 2014 to June 2014.
Young ensembles schemeClosing date passed10000The primary purpose of this award is to support groups of young people between the ages of 12 and 23 to create ambitious and original work together in any art form (e.g., circus, dance, digital media, film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, or any combination of the above).