Arts Bursary Awards

Arts Bursary Awards 2025

Longford County Council Arts Bursary Awards helps local artists in the development of their artistic practice. The award is to help with work planned for the coming year, which may include training, mentoring, research and building capacity. Applicants can come from a variety of artistic backgrounds and work in any art form. Applicants can apply for bursaries up to €3,000.

Closing Date

Closes for application at 5pm on Friday, 20 December 2024.

How to apply

• You can apply using the online Arts Bursary Awards 2025 Application Form. 
• The online application system does not accept attachments. Please ensure you email your mandatory documents (artist CV and artist portrait photo) and any other documents you wish to be submitted as part of your application to artsoffice@longfordcoco.ie.
• Before applying, please familiarise yourself with the Terms and Conditions, including the eligibility criteria.
  
  

Assessment Process 

Applications will be processed by Longford County Council Arts Office. Applications that fall outside of the eligibility criteria may be eliminated at this point. Longford County 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 eligible applications will be considered by an adjudicating panel that comprises of two independent assessors with relevant experience and expertise.

Arts Bursary Award 2025 outcomes will be issued to all applicants in mid-January 2025. 

For more feedback on your application, please email scrossan@longfordcoco.ie. Requests must be made no later than 20 days after the Arts Bursary Award 2025 outcome correspondence.

Freedom of Information considerations

Longford County Council is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 1997, 2003. If you consider that any information supplied by you is either commercially sensitive or confidential, 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.