Revenue Grants 2024

• Arts Office Purpose
• Purpose of Arts Grants Programme
• Revenue Grants 2024 Guidelines
• Revenue Scoring Criteria
• Guidance Document
• Revenue Information Session
• Assessment Process
• Terms and Conditions
• Apply Online

Applications for Arts Grants and Bursary Awards 2024 closed on 22 November 2023. 
​The next round of grants, Arts Grants 2025 will open Sept/Oct 2024. 

ARTS OFFICE PURPOSE
Dublin City Arts Office is a developmental unit within Dublin City Council. It supports quality access, participation, learning and innovation in the arts through collaboration and strategic partnership at local, regional and international levels. 

PURPOSE OF THE ARTS GRANTS PROGRAMME (from a review in 2020)
The Purpose of the Arts Grants Programme of DCC is to support Arts Practice, Arts Participation, and Audience Development in the DCC Administrative Area through focusing the funding on requests for developmental projects, training and vocational support for Artists, community development outcomes through quality arts actions or process with an overarching emphasis on diversity and equality of opportunity.

REVENUE GRANTS GUIDELINES
All applicants must be within the Dublin City Council Administrative Area.  
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Revenue Grants 2024 are for Arts organisations that contribute to the realisation of the priorities and goals of Dublin City Council in a strategic way, and can act as effective advocates and promoters of the arts to the public, to partners in other agencies and public bodies. A Grant of €10k is guaranteed to each successful applicant. 

Any increase on €10K will only apply to an application that has excellent content, with an emphasis on diversity, social inclusion and equality of opportunity. Applicants in this section may apply to other categories but if successful in Revenue will only be offered a Revenue Grant. Previous Revenue Grant recipients should not presume repeated levels of grant aid. 

A Note on diversity; Dublin City Council through all of its programmes wants to engage with all of the residents and visitors to Dublin. We know that some may feel excluded for physical, cultural, economic, racial, gender or other reasons and as a Local Authority we want to address this exclusion and celebrate the diversity of Dublin. 

As an applicant for an Arts Grant please let us know how you address diversity whether by including and encouraging diverse practitioners or participants in your programme or through engaging with diverse audiences. The main evidence for your understanding of diversity, accessibility and inclusion will be evidenced by: 

(a) Policy documents and implementation.

(b) Specific marketing to diverse audiences.

(c) Collaboration and inclusion of diverse practitioners and Artists. Partnership with organisations that increase your knowledge and skills in the area of diversity. As diversity is a developing area for the Arts and for Arts Grants it is not expected that you would be equally proficient in all areas but that you are aware of the importance of diversity, accessibility and inclusion and are taking concrete steps to continually learn and increase your ability.
 

REVENUE SCORING CRITERIA

1. Artistic Ambition (30%):

• Artistic Quality and Innovation in work programme.
   
• Significant contribution to Artistic and professional development and employment of Artists.
   
• Demonstrated approach to increasing equality of opportunity for diverse Artists and Arts workers.
   

2. Public Engagement (30%)  

• Providing opportunities for the City’s diverse communities to participate in the arts in ways that are meaningful to them.
   
• Clear and ongoing audience development and communication strategy.
   
• Increasing public understanding of and relationship to art forms and art works.
   
• Working in collaboration with others to enhance systems of support for areas of the City that currently have low levels of arts provision.

• Diversity and Inclusion Policy and policy documents.

• Evidence of collaboration or inclusion of diverse artists and / or marketing to diverse audiences. 

3. Strategic Leadership (20%)

• Demonstrating awareness of diverse audiences, practitioners and participants with existing and developing programmes that cater for an increasingly diverse City.
   
• Demonstrating expertise and ability to collaborate with non-arts sector organisations and bodies.
   
• Working in collaboration with others to enhance systems of support for the arts sector at a local, City and international level.
   
• Sharing  information and ideas to create greater depth of engagement and sharing of good practice / success stories / learning experiences.
   
• Evaluation, communication and advocacy.

 

4. Governance and Management (20%)

• In continuous operation for minimum 3 years.
   
• Evidence of strong governance, fair and transparent processes (including accountability and equality of opportunity).
   
• Demonstrate sound financial management (most recent audited accounts must be supplied) and revenues generated from other sources of funding (minimum 50% matching).  Failure to demonstrate this will result in application being ineligible. 

• Provide details of fair and equitable fees for all artists involved. 

• Professional administrative infrastructure.

• Demonstrated adaption and resilience in response to changing contexts.

GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
Download our Guidance Document below which explains the Application questions in greater detail.  We recommend printing this and keeping it beside you through the process.    

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REVENUE INFORMATION SESSION

This information session took place in 2023. A date for the 2024 information session has not yet been announced. Please sign up to our newsletter to be notified when applications open.

Our Revenue Arts Grant Information Session will take place on Zoom on Thursday 12th October at 11am.  Please book your place on the session by clicking the link below.  The aim of our information sessions is to provide help and guidance with all aspects of the online application process. The information session will be led by the Arts Officer Team.  The session consists of a 25-minute walk-through of the application form, followed by 20 minutes of questions and answers.  

ASSESSMENT PROCESS
All applications must be submitted online no later than 12 noon on Wednesday 22 November 2023.

No applications will be accepted later than this date and time.

Your application will be processed by members of the Arts Office Administrative team. Any applications that clearly fall outside the eligibility guidelines and criteria may be eliminated at this point. Dublin City Council reserves the right to redirect applications for consideration to appropriate categories other than those applied for, should it be deemed beneficial to the applicant to so do. 

All applications will be considered by the Arts Officer Team reporting to the City Arts Officer. Independent Assessors (with relevant experience and expertise) support the Art Officer Team who will make recommendations on all eligible applications. 

Assessment of Neighbourhood, Voluntary & Community Mentoring Applications will be supported by the Area Offices of Dublin City Council through their Community Development section. All applications will then be assessed by a sub-committee of Elected Members of Dublin City Council from the Strategic Policy Committee.

An external assessor reviews the application process before the applications are submitted to the Elected Members.  When approved by the sub-committee of Elected Members, final approval is sought from full meetings of the Elected Members of Dublin City Council.

 

TERMS & CONDITIONS
The public presentation (or parts thereof) of your application must take place in the Dublin City Council Administrative Area. Click here for Map

The Company, artist or team shall ensure that there is compliance with all statutory requirements and local authority bye laws including adherence to Child Protection Policy.

Recipients of grants of €5,000 or more will have to comply with the 5 key principles of the Governance Code for Community, Voluntary and Charitable organisations. For an outline of the 5 key principles see: http://www.governancecode.ie

Recipients of grants of €10,000 or more will have to supply a current tax clearance certificate or tax clearance access number prior to first instalment and for subsequent payments of the Arts Grant.

Dublin City Council is subject to provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 1997, 2003. If you consider that any information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for sensitivity specified. In such cases, the relevant material will, in response to an FOI request, be examined in the light of the exemptions provided for in the Acts.

For feedback, please email: artsoffice@dublincity.ie Requests must be made no later than 20 days subsequent to the City Council meeting approving Arts Grants.

 

APPLY ONLINE
Apply Online through Submittable below