Culture funding

Current opportunities

We have three funding and tender opportunities:

• Cultural Multi-Annual Grants 2022-2024 - Activate two-year funding for Festivals and Events organisations and Enable two-year funding for Arts and Heritage organisations (closing 5 November 2021)
• Community Festivals Fund - Grants of up to £10,000 are available for festivals taking place between end of November 2021 and 31 March 2022 (closing 15 October 2021)

Cultural Multi-Annual Grants 2022 - 2024

Our Cultural Multi-Annual Grants scheme includes two funding strands to support:

• festivals and events organisations with an audience of more than 10,000
• arts and heritage organisations with a year-round programme of activity

Applications for the above two-year funding are open. For more information or to apply, go to www.belfastcity-grants.com (link opens in new window).

You can also email culture@belfastcity.gov.uk for a copy of the designed guidance notes.

Information sessions

No information sessions are currently planned. Please check back. 

Community Festivals Fund

Community Festivals Fund, in partnership with Department for Communities, is now open. Grants of up to £10,000 are available for festivals taking place between end of November 2021 and 31 March 2022. Closing date is 12 noon on 15 October.

For more information or to apply, go www.belfastcity-grants.com (link opens in new window).

You can also email culture@belfastcity.gov.uk for a copy of the guidance notes.

Information sessions

We’re holding information sessions at 1pm on 23 September and 4pm on 30 September.

• Email culture@belfastcity.gov.uk to register.

Grants awarded to arts organisations in 2020

We invested in 38 grants to support not for profit arts and heritage organisations in Belfast. These grants support cultural activity from 1 April 2020. ANCHOR grants are for four years (2020 - 2024). We awarded ANCHOR grants to the nine organisations in this table.

ENABLE grants are for two years (2020 - 2022). We awarded ENABLE grants to the 29 organisations in this table.

If you would like information on recent funding awards, case studies of recipients or our guide on cultural funding, contact us by email: culture@belfastcity.gov.uk

Grants awarded to festivals and events in 2020

We invested in 18 grants to support not-for-profit festivals and events in Belfast. These grants support cultural activity from 1 April 2020.  
 
Imagine festivals and events grants are for four years (2020 - 2024). We awarded Imagine grants to the four organisations in this table. 

Activate festivals and events grants are for two years (2020 - 2022). We awarded Activate grants to the 12 organisations in this table.

We awarded one-year grants to the organisations in this table.

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