Financial support

The Arts Council offers a wide range of financial supports across artforms and arts practices, including theatre (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
RAISE - The Business of Arts Fundraising 28 June 201330000The RAISE 2013 award consists of professional support for the creation of a fundraising strategy, recruitment and mentoring of a fundraising intern, and funding for the retained fundraising intern, as an entry level fundraiser, for a two-year period.
Annual fundingTo be announcedUnlimitedThe 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 grantTo be announcedUnlimitedThe 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.
Regularly funded organisationsTo be announcedUnlimitedThe 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.
Theatre project awardTo be announced100000This award supports projects in the field of theatre commencing in 2013.
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
Theatre artist development schemeClosing date passed30000The Theatre Development Funding Scheme will give arts organisations the opportunity to offer developmental and mentoring programmes to groups of theatre artists.
Theatre artist residency schemeClosing date passed20000The purpose of this scheme is to offer theatre artists the opportunity to create a year-long work programme in partnership with venues and local authorities. The specific contents of the work programme will be designed by the theatre artist in collaboration with the venue and/or local authority.
Theatre bursary awardClosing date passed15000The award supports professional theatre artists in the development of their arts practice.
Theatre resource-sharing support schemeClosing date passed20000The purpose of this award is to offer organisations the opportunity to share administrative and production resources with a number of individual theatre artists over a specified period of time.
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).