Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications to the Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary Award 2025 (€1500).
Local Enterprise Office, in association with Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications to the €1500 Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary Award
The funding may act as a catalyst for an artist to develop their business idea or for a fledgling arts business to expand. The recipient will also receive additional support from Kildare Local Enterprise Office, including mentoring and training opportunities to the value of €1,000.
Applications are welcome from artists who wish to start a new artistic business or those who have set up an arts business in the past 12 months. Individual artists, art groups, and community projects from County Kildare may apply for the Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary.
Assistance will be restricted to “the arts” as defined in the Arts Act 2003. ‘Arts’ means any creative or interpretative expression (whether traditional or contemporary) in whatever form, and includes, in particular, visual arts, theatre, literature, music, dance, opera, film, circus and architecture, and includes any medium when used for those purposes (please note this Bursary will not include craft as this is supported by Design & Craft Council Ireland).
Access Support
You can apply for additional costs if there are access needs relating to your application. These can be personal access costs or costs for making your work accessible to others. Personal access costs might for example include costs towards additional time needed to complete your project or
additional assistance required to deliver your proposed project. Costs for making your work accessible to others might include having an ISL interpreter, using an audio description service, making your content compatible with screen readers or producing materials in other formats such as in Braille or audio. Any such requirements should be outlined in your application and a budget and breakdown of costs should be provided. These costs may be above the maximum award amount for this grant and should be noted as an additional expense (up to 20% of the bursary available).
Supporting Material
It is advantageous to include supporting material that enhances your application. Applicants to the Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary Award must include a 3-year business plan with your application form.
Applicants should not assume that the independent assessment panel are familiar with your work or your previous funding history. The panel will use the supporting material to get a better understanding of the track record of your creative collaborator(s) and the feasibility of your proposal.
For more information and to make an application visit - https://kildarecocoarts.submit.com/show/250