Funding and Opportunities

Funding and Opportunities

Leitrim County Council Arts Office provides financial assistance to individual artists to further their development, and to organisations and festivals to support the provision of high-quality arts activities in the county through the schemes listed below. Further details and application forms for these are available through the links provided. Artists can also avail of opportunities through the many programmes which the arts office organises or works with, such as Creative Frame, Spark, Culture Night, Creative Ireland etc. Further details of these programmes can be found in the relevant part of the programmes section of the website.

It is a condition of all awards that the support of Leitrim County Council should be evident in all publicity activities and material. Other relevant funding partners, such as Creative Ireland or The Arts Council, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media etc., should also be included as appropriate.

A selection of the logos that may be relevant can be downloaded here below.

Leitrim County Council (size 853.7 KB)

Leitrim County Council (for dark backgrounds) (size 62.8 KB)

Creative Ireland (size 36.8 KB)

 

Programme EligibilityClosing Date
Arts Venue Programming SupportArts Venues 23-02-25
Cruinniú na nÓg projectsYouth/Community/Arts Groups23-02-25
Creative Communities Open CallCommunity Groups/Arts Organisations16-03-25
Arts FestivalsArts Festival Organisers23-02-25
Creative Economy Open CallCreative Enterprises16-03-25
Creative Internship ProgrammeArts Centres / Creative Industries16-03-25
Artist Mentoring ProgrammeArtists 01-05-25
Small Sparks - Call for companiesBusinesses TBA
Adaptation Film BursaryFilmmakersTBA
Culture night - Call for ApplicationsCommunity Groups/Arts CentresTBA
Small Sparks - Call for ArtistsArtistsTBA
John McGahern AwardWritersTBA
Artist Collective BursaryArtist collectives28-09-25
Individual Artist Bursary ProgrammeArtistsTBA