Financial support

The Arts Council offers a wide range of financial supports across artforms and arts practices, including street arts and spectacle. We offer assistance in a number of ways, from the provision of bursary awards to individual artists to the funding of traditional arts resource organisations, archives, festivals and cultural groups. Those supports, direct and indirect, are described in detail in the financial support section.

Name	Closing Date	Maximum Awarded €	Abstract
Travel & training award	31 December 2012	8000	There are three strands to this award: Travel and Training Outbound to support individuals who wish to avail of training and other professional development opportunities abroad; Travel and Training Inbound to support individuals or organisations who wish to invite specialists from abroad to deliver high-level training or mentoring; and the CCP International Award which offers support to arts organisations planning to make applications to the EU Culture Programme.
Annual funding	Closing date passed	Unlimited	The 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 grant	Closing date passed	Unlimited	The 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 award	Closing date passed	10000	The arts and older people 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 older people.
Location one fellowship	Closing date passed	37000	A 10-month fellowship based in New York
Regularly funded organisations	Closing date passed	Unlimited	The 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.
Small arts festivals scheme	Closing date passed	20000	The Small Arts Festivals scheme is designed in the main to support and provide opportunities for small arts festivals or events seeking funding of up to €20,000.
Street arts and spectacle bursary award	Closing date passed	15000	The award supports individual professional artists in the development of their arts practice.
Street arts and spectacle project award	Closing date passed	20000	This award supports projects in the fields of street arts and spectacle commencing in 2012.
Touring and dissemination - advance planning	Closing date passed	Unlimited	The 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 2013 and December 2013.
Touring and dissemination of work scheme	Closing date passed	Unlimited	This scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in all arts disciplines starting between January 2013 to June 2013.
Young ensembles scheme	Closing date passed	10000	The 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).