Creative Ireland Open Call

Fund Creative Ireland Open Call 
Frequency Annually via Open Call
Application Open Opens November       
Application Close Closes December
Application Process Online via Sligo County Council’s Grant Portal
Grant Threshold Varies - See categories A, B and C below
Administrated by Culture Team Sligo
Contact CreativeIreland@sligococo.ie 

  

Funding will be divided into three categories: Projects are 100% funded.

  • Category A) €500 - €1,000
  • Category B) €1,001 - €5,000
  • Category C) €5001 - €10,000

About the fund:

The Sligo Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023-2027 aligns with the Government’s Creative Ireland initiative in placing creativity at the centre of public policy for the first time, and in encouraging and supporting greater access to and participation in creativity, to improve the wellbeing of all citizens. It will foster better and more innovative collaboration between the public and private sectors, and between artists, creatives, and the wider community; to empower and enable every person living in Sligo to have the opportunity to realise their full creative potential.

Funding applications must support the following Culture and Creativity themes:

  • Creative Place
  • Creative Economy
  • Creative Communities
  • Climate Action, Biodiversity and Environment
  • Creative Youth 

The Creative Ireland Values in Sligo

The Creative Communities partnership will be delivered in line with the following principles and values:

  • Broaden access to, and participation in, cultural and creative activities locally.
  • Use culture and creativity as a catalyst for collaboration and innovation in achieving greater wellbeing, social cohesion, and economic development.
  • Strengthen the capacity of local authorities to integrate culture and creativity across place-making, regeneration, renewal, and the development of more vibrant, creative, and sustainable places.
  • Investing in culture and creativity to support environmental, social and economic returns that help deliver local authority agendas – from local and regional, to national and international.
  • Build on the agility and integrated approach of Culture and Creativity Teams to sustain further delivery of targeted collaborative programmes.

Eligibility:

The following criteria must be clearly met in order to qualify your project for consideration:

  • The quality of the project and the collaborative nature of the proposal.
  • Collaboration must include creatives and /or artists working in conjunction with communities / places of interest / latest technologies.
  • The ability to align with and deliver the vision and priorities of Sligo’s Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023 – 2027
  • The unique nature of the project proposed.
  • The benefit to professional artists and creatives in the community.
  • The ability to deliver the project by October 2026.
  • Clear governance and structure of collaborative arrangement.
  • The extent to which the proposal builds awareness of and supports: Creative Communities whereby the concept of people work together to transform their communities, their lives and their environment through creativity.

* Creatives: This denotes anyone working within a creative industry/sector, including craft, design, fashion, architecture, film, photography and food.

Creative Ireland funding cannot be used to fund monuments, murals or the purchase of equipment.

Tax Requirements:

Applicants who apply for funding to Creative Sligo Open Call do not have to be registered for tax purposes. If the applicant is registered for tax purposes, then they are required to be tax compliant. In line with revised tax clearance procedures, which came into effect in January 2016, the Tax Clearance Access Number and Tax Reference number must be submitted to the local authority for verification purposes.  VAT should only be paid where it is included in the proposal.

All monies granted must be drawn down with claims submitted by 31st October in grant year.