We are the main support for artists and arts organisations, offering a broad range of funding opportunities through our Exchequer and National Lottery funds.
This funding helps organisations to develop ideas, projects and new work, and deliver activity with partners.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland provides development opportunities and support to artists and organisations through public funding initiatives, including some Arts and Health related initiatives. For example, we may fund arts activities that directly engage with individuals within healthcare, community and arts-based settings, where the aim is to promote the well-being and mental health of participants through the inherent value of the creative process.
We do not fund Art Therapy/Art Psychotherapy which has a clinical focus or sets a therapeutic goal against a specific co-developed treatment plan centred on psychotherapeutic theory.
Please note the titles Art Therapist and Art Psychotherapist are protected by law and to use either of these titles it is a legal requirement to be registered as such with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). All UK Art Therapists must be registered with the HCPC.
