Financial support

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

 
NameClosing DateMaximum Awarded €Abstract
Writers in schools schemeOngoing304The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the Republic of Ireland.
Travel & training award31 December 20128000There 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.
YPCE bursary award12 July 201210000The Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award supports individual professional artists working with, and producing work for, children and young people across a range of artforms. The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice.
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 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.
Artist in youth work residency schemeClosing date passed5000The aim of this scheme is to encourage artistic collaboration between professional artists and young people.
Location one fellowshipClosing date passed37000A 10-month fellowship based in New York
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.
Small arts festivals schemeClosing date passed20000The 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.
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 2013 and December 2013.
Touring and dissemination of work schemeClosing date passedUnlimitedThis scheme is designed to support the touring and dissemination of work in all arts disciplines starting between January 2013 to June 2013.
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).