Funding & Opportunities
dlr Arts Grants Scheme
dlr Grants are available annually to provide financial assistance to individual artists, arts groups, community groups, older persons groups and arts organisations engaged in arts projects or events at local or county level and to support the professional development and arts practice of individual artists.
dlr Arts Grant Scheme 2027
dlr Arts Grants Open Friday 25 September at 10am
Application deadline: Friday 23 October at 1pm
To learn more about the funding programmes and the application process, join one of our briefing sessions:
- Join in person session: dlr LexIcon, Tuesday 6 October at 6pm
- Join online session: Wednesday 7 October at 10.30am
We encourage all prospective applicants to attend and find out more about the available funding opportunities and how to make a strong application. To register email arts@dlrcoco.ie
Available grant types
- Professional Development.
- Arts Access for Older People.
- Arts Activity, Project, Event or Collaboration.
- Arts Grants for Communities.
- Elevate - Develop your practice.
- Elevate - Creating Inclusive Opportunities.
- Amateur and Voluntary Performing Arts.
Professional Development Arts Grant:
This grant is to support the professional development of individual artists in any artform (music, theatre dance, film, visual art, literature, architecture, circus, craft, opera, street art or traditional arts)
Arts Access for Older People Grant:
This grant is to support older persons groups to participate in arts activities in the DLR County.
Arts Activity, Project, Event or Collaboration Grant:
This grant helps artists, groups, and organisations pay for arts-related events, festivals, projects, regular arts activities or collaborations happening in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. Funding is for the period January to December 2027. The aim is to support engagement with the arts across the County. This may involve people taking part, attending events, or collaborating creatively. The grant is open all artforms.
Questions and Answers Document
Arts Grants for Communities (previously "Community Arts Grants"):
This grant is to support community arts activity in the County. This could be planning art workshops, an exhibition of art by a local community, a performance by a local amateur group and need help with these costs.
Elevate Arts Grant - Develop your practice:
This new grant will support professional artists who work in socially engaged or collaborative arts practice with disabled people of all ages. This opportunity is funded by the Arts Council. Socially engaged/collaborative artists work with people to create art. They involve communities in debate, collaboration, and/or social interaction to create art over long periods of time.
Elevate Arts Grant- Creating Inclusive Opportunities:
This new grant is to support groups of disabled people of all ages to create an art project with a socially engaged/collaborative artist.
Socially engaged/collaborative artists work with people to create art. They involve communities in debate, collaboration, and/or social interaction to create art over long periods of time.
Amateur and Voluntary Performing Arts Grant:
This is a new grant to support the activity of medium to large amateur and voluntary performing arts groups in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County. Groups must have at least 11 active members all over 18 years old.
Online Application Portal
All grants are now processed through an online application portal called Submit.
To use the application portal you will need to set up a profile before applying for a grant. This profile will be used for all your future applications with dlr.
If you are applying as a group please make sure that the email address being used is accessible to more than one member. This ensures that if there are any changes to staffing or members leaving, the profile/account can still be accessed by the group.
You can find a How To guide for the Submit Application Portal here.
How to use the Submit Application Portal
If you have any questions regarding the grant process please contact cbrown@dlrcoco.ie or arts@dlrcoco.ie
dlr Grant Scheme timeline
(dates may change)
This timeline does not include second rounds of funding which might occur.
To receive updates on future grants and funding from dlr Arts Office, sign up for our Funding and Opportunities e-bulletin.
You can sign up with the following link:
Grants awarded by year
Grants awarded by year
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