Grants and Opportunities

dlr First Frames 2025/26 is open for applications. Funding will be available to support two short films with awards of up to €13,500 (VAT incl.) each. Mentoring support as well as additional equipment and facilities will be provided by the National Film School, IADT. The Scheme supports emerging filmmakers to develop creative short films based in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.

The New Small Grants Programme, funded by support from the Department for Communities, aims to encourage greater participation in the arts, and to increase equality of access to, and opportunities in, the arts across all Section 75 groupings. Participating in the arts, and coming together as communities, can make a vital contribution to improving health and wellbeing, building confidence, and integrating communities.

The Regional Council of Normandy invites organisations from Normandy, France, the UK, the Channel Islands, Ireland, Southern Italy, Norway, and Denmark to respond to this call for projects to be part of a major event in 2027. The year-long programme will mark the millennium of the birth of William the Conqueror, inviting people across Europe to explore the Norman heritage that shaped our continent. Initiated by the Normandy Region of France, this major programme aims to foster European cooperation and create lasting legacies.

The programme aims to give creative opportunity to people living with mental health problems through engagement in high quality arts. The projects funded through the programme will be delivered to individuals living with a mental health condition. This will be demonstrated in the application when the project description will state the target group the applicant organisation intends to work with throughout the project. The programme is aimed at constituted community and voluntary groups.

The new phase of the Shared Island Civic Society Fund is a €6 million three-year initiative, promoting practical North-South cooperation and engagement, primarily between grassroots community organisations across a range of sectors and themes, consistent with the objectives and commitments of the Good Friday Agreement. The 2025 round will allocate up to €2 million, and applications will be accepted from Monday, 26 May 2025, to Friday, 27 June.

The AIB Community €1 Million Fund enables customers, the public, and our employees to support the local charities that matter most to them, within their region. The Fund supports charities across six regions in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Great Britain. AIB will once again allocate €700,000 to charities chosen by its customers and the community, while €300,000 will be donated to charities chosen by employees. The 2025 AIB Community €1 Million Fund opened for nominations on 14 May and will remain open for six weeks.

The Social Justice Fund is part of, and supported by, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Fund (NIHRF). Grants will be available of up to £5,000. Applications must give voice and power to those whose human rights are most at risk; or provide groups and communities with support to challenge, monitor, and remedy inequality and rights violations; or increase awareness of, and contribute to, building a culture of rights within and between communities; or support communities and marginalised groups to find solutions to contentious issues.

An Taibhdhearc is recruiting for a full-time Hospitality Manager. We are looking for a high-energy, self-motivated individual to play a central role in our new organisational structure. He/she will be a key member of the team and will report directly to the Executive Director and Artistic Director. The Hospitality Manager supports the team in creating and maintaining a positive experience and atmosphere for the public, audiences, and artists who attend meetings, workshops, events, and performances at An Taibhdhearc.

Project Arts Centre (PAC) is seeking applications from skilled, experienced, and motivated individuals to join our team at Ireland’s foremost contemporary arts centre. Key responsibilities include developing/delivering access, maintaining and updating access provision information, artist supports, working with artists with disabilities, writing reports and managing budgets, liaising with the production, communications, house, and box office teams to ensure smooth delivery of access for programming, and more.

Project Arts Centre (PAC) is seeking applications from skilled, experienced, and motivated individuals to join our team at Ireland’s foremost contemporary arts centre. Key responsibilities include artist supports and working with emerging artists as prioritised in our TEDI policy; programming; communities and contacts; and supporting artists with the writing of applications.

VHI aims to support their customers to live longer, stronger, and healthier lives. In partnership with the Irish Youth Foundation (IYF), VHI is launching a fund of €85,000 to support young people’s health and wellbeing. The fund will support projects that seek to strengthen resilience in young people and help them manage anxiety, with the emphasis on early intervention and prevention. Projects may work directly with young people or with the adults that surround them.

Join Into Film as our School Engagement Coordinator (Northern Ireland) – a full-time, permanent role based in Belfast. Help us inspire and support young people’s education through the magic of the moving image and games, by working directly with schools across Northern Ireland and driving our engagement strategy forward. The Engagement Coordinator will be instrumental in ensuring that schools and teachers have access to the full range of educational resources, training, and opportunities offered by Into Film. Click here for more information.

The Arts Council of Northern Ireland has designed this programme to assist organisations to deliver arts projects which contribute to the growth of arts in the community for new and existing audiences, all the while reflecting the diversity of Northern Ireland’s society and culture. We want to support activities which benefit the people of Northern Ireland or that help arts organisations in Northern Ireland carry out their work.

Festivals are key producers and presenters of the arts, and are critical for engaging diverse audiences and broadening public access to the arts. They provide vital platforms and opportunities for artists to develop their practice, often showcasing the arts in new and challenging ways, in both conventional and non-arts spaces. The Festivals Investment Scheme supports small-to-mid-scale festivals to deliver high-quality arts experiences for audiences. It focuses on programmes engaged with, and relevant to, local communities or communities of interest.

CLÁR (Ceantair Laga Árd Riachtanais) or Funding for Small-Scale Rural Projects is a targeted investment programme which provides funding for small-scale infrastructural projects in rural areas that have suffered the greatest levels of population decline. Reopened in 2016, CLÁR aims to support sustainable development in identified areas by attracting people to live and work there. The funding works in conjunction with local funding and on the basis of locally identified priorities.

The Hi Digital Fund is aimed at addressing the digital skills gap among Ireland’s ageing population. We invite applications from projects and organisations that innovatively work to empower Ireland’s older adults to enhance their digital literacy, as well as improve social inclusion and quality of life through the use of technology, ensuring that no one is left behind as we transition to a more digital society. This €540,000, two-year fund is created by Rethink Ireland in partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, SmartSimple, private donors, and the Department of Rural and Community Development via the Dormant Accounts Fund.

Backwater Artists Group wishes to enlist the services of an experienced communications and marketing professional to devise and implement new communications and marketing strategies, increase the profile of the artist studio complex and our artist members, support our fundraising and sponsorship initiatives, and grow audiences, in line with our strategic objectives 2024–2028.

Void Art Centre are hiring a Coordinator of Production and Dynamics (Maternity Cover). The role seeks to promote care principles and empathetic approaches to stakeholder liaison, and logistical management of the gallery’s programme and everyday running. This is a pivotal role within Void Art Centre’s organisational structure, which looks to interdependent forms of team-working and artistic and cultural production.