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All the latest news from the Arts Council about: Funding

Funding

WOMEX - World Music Expo 2025 delegate bursaries now open for applications

18th June, 2025

Funding

NI craft makers can now apply for £15,000 Rosy James Memorial Trust Award

17th June, 2025

Visual Artist Sheena Devitt in her studio with Suzanne Lyle, Head of Visual Arts at the Arts Council.

General, Funding, Organisations, Partnerships

Positive impact of creative arts on mental health under discussion at The MAC

6th June, 2025

The group is pictured inside The MAC. A colourful rainbow sculpture can be seen behind. One of the musicians holds a guitar.

Funding

Arts Council announces Annual Funding Programme awards for 2025-26

4th June, 2025

A group of young children smiling at the camera and sitting in the community arts space.

Funding

Applications for the 2026 - 2027 Cultural Bridge programme set to open in October 2025

22nd May, 2025

A group of young people performing a dance theatre piece called Ode to Earth, a collaborative Cultural Bridge project between DU Dance, Beyond Skin and VILLA Leipzig. The young people are wearing costumes and pouring water on the ground to symbolize wasting water.

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General, Funding, Organisations, Partnerships

Funding applications open for new mental health and arts programme

21st May, 2025

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Funding

Community groups and arts organisations encouraged to apply to the Arts Council NI’s New Small Grants Programme

21st May, 2025

New Small Grants Programme

Funding, Organisations

National Lottery Project Funding Available for Arts Groups

8th May, 2025

Two musicians performing and two people reading the festival programme.

General, Funding, Artists, Partnerships

New pilot programme to support mobility and exchange across the Nordic region, UK and Ireland opening in August 2025.

6th May, 2025

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