Arts Centre Funding in Ireland

Deadline: 23-Sep-21

The Arts Council is pleased to announce Arts Centre Funding that aims to invest in and support the infrastructure of arts centres required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland.

Arts centres are defined as full-time, public-facing, professionally managed, building-based arts organisations. They support the creation, presentation and mediation of the arts across a range of artforms and arts practices. They support professional, collaborative, voluntary and amateur arts practice.

The purpose of Arts Centre Funding is to invest in and support the infrastructure of arts centres required to sustain and develop the arts in Ireland.

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In accordance with its Policy and Strategy for Arts Centres, the Arts Council wishes to encourage arts centres to engage with and further develop supports for artists. Examples of this might be by:

Providing professional-development opportunities for practising artists through:
The management of physical spaces for artists to develop work
Residencies that are meaningful in length, appropriately remunerated, and relevant to the requirements of artists in different artforms and practices
in-house productions/co-productions
Other models of support as appropriate.
Objectives

In offering Arts Centre Funding, the Arts Council wishes to ensure:

The year-round production and dissemination of arts activities, events and services of the highest quality throughout the country
That greater numbers of people enjoy high-quality arts experiences
That artists are supported in their professional practice
That audiences, artists and participants reflect the diversity of contemporary Ireland1
Increased depth of engagement by and with the public
High standards in governance and management.
Activities

Arts Centre Funding is intended to support activities that your organisation undertakes to realise your mission and related operating costs.
Note: organisations applying for Arts Centre Funding for 2022 should include any activities that were previously supported through separate funding schemes:

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Residencies
Artist development initiatives
Resource-sharing
Young ensembles
Touring and dissemination of work
Arts Centre Funding may not be used for the purchase of capital items.

Eligibility Criteria

The Arts Centre Funding Programme is open only to building-based, professionally managed, multidisciplinary arts organisations that are open to the public all year round.
To be eligible for application, your organisation must:
Be formally constituted as either a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG), a Designated Activity Company (DAC), a Company Limited by Shares (LTD) or a statutory body2
Apply in its own name, and not in the name of another company or individual
Organisations that fail to meet the eligibility criteria will not proceed to the assessment stage, and will not receive Arts Centre Funding.
Note: Members of the Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) directly funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media cannot apply for this grant.

For more information, visit https://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Arts-Centre-Funding/