Young People, Children, and Education Bursary Award

Applications are now open for the The Arts Council’s Young People, Children and Education Bursary Award. The Award supports the professional development of artists by enabling them to spend time developing their practice. The award is specifically focused on helping artists to improve their capacity to develop or present high-quality arts experiences with or for children and young people. It is open to individual artists and practitioners working in a creative capacity in any art form, including arts facilitators, curators or programmers. 

Please note the deadline has been extended to Thursday, 20 February at 17:30.

Maximum awarded: €20,000.

More info here.

Access Supports:

If you have a disability and would like help applying, contact the Access Officer as early as possible before the deadline.

Phone:    

  • 01 618 0200
  • 01 618 0243

Email: access@artscouncil.ie

You will be able to apply for additional costs if you have access needs relating to your application.

Note: applications will only be accepted through the Arts Council’s Online Services site. If you have not used Online Services before you must register for a login to be able to apply for funding.  It is important that you register as early as possible as it may take up to five working days for your registration to be processed.

The Arts Council have announced a 2025 funding schedule. Please note that the dates of the schemes could change over the course of the year. Unless otherwise stated, funding relates to 2025.

Guidelines are typically made available two weeks in advance of the opening of a scheme. Full details can be found on the Available Funding page.