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Open Call Grants 2025

Cavan County Council Open Call Grants 2025

Cavan County Council’s Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023-2027 seeks to provide opportunities for access, participation, and engagement in culture and creativity for all citizens. Cavan County Council will award a limited number of grants to creative projects in the county under the Creative Ireland Programme.

The Creative Ireland grant scheme is suited towards local and community groups and individuals, artistic and creative practitioners, event organisers, and those involved in creative, cultural, and heritage activities and projects.

This grant scheme is supported by the national Creative Ireland Programme. Successful applications must demonstrate compatibility with the Cavan Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023-2027. Preference will be given to projects that demonstrate the potential to creatively promote:

Health, Wellbeing, Heritage, Biodiversity, or Creative Climate Action.

Available grants

Applications were invited for the following grants under Cavan County Council’s Creative Ireland Grant Scheme:

Micro Grants – between €500 and €2,500 in value to be delivered by 27 September 2025
Strategic Grants – between €2,500 and €15,000 in value to be delivered by 31 August 2026. This grant will allow potential projects which will require a longer delivery time and respective budget to be delivered.

Organisations may only apply for one of the above grants and those in receipt of a 2024/2025 grant are exempt from applying. Open call guidance notes can be found here.

Cruinniú na nÓg Grants – up to €5,000 in value to be delivered by 7 June 2025. Events or programmes must include a delivery element on Saturday 7 June 2025.

Cruinniú na nÓg guidance notes can be found here.

Open Call Grants and requests for funding are now closed and will re-open in January 2026.

General Enquiries

Please email the Creative Communities Engagement Officer, Sharon Howe showe@cavancoco.ie using the subject line 'Open Call Grant 2025' with any general queries. Please ensure you allow sufficient time for a response to your query.

View the Cavan Culture and Creativity Strategy 2023-2027 here.

Contact us

Phone: 049 437 8506
Email: showe@cavancoco.ie

Creative Communities is an initiative from the Creative Ireland Programme, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

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