Culture and Creativity Project Awards

Donegal Culture & Creativity Project Awards annually offers approximately 25 Project Awards of €2,000 each to projects that encourage cooperation and collaboration between communities and heritage specialists, artists, culture professionals and/or creative industries to preserve, conserve, research, practice, exhibit, perform, instruct, engage, enhance, promote, or address an aspect of the material or non-material culture in an original, imaginative, or creative way.  Community groups and individuals may apply for funding for a project that creatively addresses culture, heritage, arts, or creative industries.  It typically opens in February with a 4 week window for applications.

The Donegal Culture & Creativity Project Awards Scheme aims to promote collaboration and foster creativity as envisaged in the Creative Ireland programme.  Creative Ireland is a culture-based programme designed to promote individual, community and national well-being.  Local Authorities across the country, including Donegal County Council, are working in partnership with Creative Ireland to deliver Pillar 2 of the Creative Ireland programme that aims to ‘Enable Creativity in Every Community’.  Creative Ireland defines culture as “The shared values, patterns of behaviour, customs and forms of expression that characterise different social groups and communities at any given time”.

Keep an eye on our social channels to find out specific details of when the scheme opens each year. The 2025 scheme closed on February 28th 2025 and is currently undergoing assessment.