Available funding

Arts organisations, artists, and groups (i.e. a non-profit organisation or community group or those working in the health and education sector) may apply for financial support from the Arts Council.  The 'Find Funding Tool' helps you search through the different types of funding available, in order to match your specific needs with the right funding programme.

The dates for the financial support programmes to organisations (regularly funded organisations, annual funding and annual programme funding) will be published shortly.

 

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NameClosing DateMaximum Awarded €Abstract
DeisOngoing50000Deis is a scheme established under the Arts Councils Traditional Arts Initiative, 2005-2008. Deis is a proposal-based scheme which is aimed at encouraging and facilitating the traditional arts community to seek funding from the Arts Council for a range of projects.
Writers in schools schemeOngoing304The Writers in Schools Scheme part-funds visits by writers and storytellers to schools throughout the Republic of Ireland.
Arts participation project award01 April 201050000Supports projects in the field of arts participation commencing in 2010.
Artist in the community scheme25 June 201010000The aim of the scheme is to encourage intense collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists, culminating in an artwork or a project in which the members of the community group and the artists work together in order to realise an artistic project or an event. The Artist in the Community Scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, providing services for arts development and collaborative arts practice in Ireland.
Artist in youth work residencyClosing date passed5000The aim of the residency is to encourage artistic collaboration between professional artists and young people.
Commissions awardClosing date passed10000The 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.
FrameworksClosing date passed50000Frameworks is an established scheme for the making of animated short films.
Kevin Kieran awardClosing date passed50000Offered by the Arts Council in partnership with the Office of Public Works, the award aims to support the creative development of architects and to direct funding towards architectural excellence and innovation.
New work project awardClosing date passed50000The New Work Project Award is focused on artistic innovation. The primary purpose of this award is to facilitate the development and/or making of innovative and challenging new work or working processes.
Performance and touring awardClosing date passedUnlimitedThe Performance and Touring Award aims to assist Irish and Ireland-based musicians in realising performance opportunities; offer increased employment opportunities to Irish musicians; develop the skills base of Irish artists in areas such as project planning and administration, self-promotion and selfmanagement; and offer a new source of music programming to concert promoters, and in turn to audiences throughout Ireland.
Skidmore jazz studentshipClosing date passed2500The Arts Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland jointly fund a place at the Skidmore Jazz Institute, which is held every summer on the campus of Skidmore College in upstate New York.
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.
Young ensembles schemeClosing date passed20000The Young Ensembles Scheme is one of a number of funding opportunities offered by the Arts Council to support and develop the arts in Ireland. It derives from the Arts Council’s commitment, as expressed in Partnership for the Arts, to ‘create better opportunities for young people to experience the arts’ and ‘to implement a new programme to support youth ensembles and national youth arts resource organisations’.