Scéimeanna Maoinithe - Foras na Gaeilge - Funding Schemes

Foras na Gaeilge Funding Schemes

Foras na Gaeilge is accepting applications for the following schemes:

Aim: To support groups or individuals outside of the Gaeltacht to organise events through the medium of Irish, for young people, outside school hours between 1 September 2013 and 30 June 2014
Support Available: up to €5,000 – to keep fees for young people to a minimum
Target Group: Children between 3 and 16 years of age
Closing date: 12 April 2013
Application forms available here. Further information from oideachas@forasnagaeilge.ie

Aim: To support groups outside the Gaeltacht to organise Summer camps through the medium of Irish between 01 July 2013 and 30 August 2013
Support Available: Up to €5,000 – to keep fees for young people low
Target Group: Children between 3 and 16 years of age
Closing date: 8 March 2013
Application forms available here. Further information from oideachas@forasnagaeilge.ie

Aim: To support community groups to organise events to support the Irish language, on a local basis
Support Available: Up to €5,000 available for community committees to encourage the usage of The Irish language on a local basis
Target Group: Community committees
Closing date: 8 March 2013
Further information and application form available here.

Aim: This scheme is aimed at festivals which aim to foster and promote, through Irish or bilingually, Irish language arts, indigenous arts and Irish language heritage as an integral part of the festival, and to provide a stage for the Irish language internationally, at a community level and at an artistic level
Criteria of Scheme:
- Subject matter of the festival, the number and attractiveness of the events through the medium of Irish
- The imagination and innovation of the festival organisers’ programme
- The number of participants
- To promote the use of Irish in the context of indigenous arts –recitation, singing, storytelling, story reading, puppetry, drama, film,literature, and to encourage new artists
- The use of Irish in the festival programme and in the festival promotional material
Further information here. Application form and guidelines available from feilte@forasnagaeilge.ie
Closing date: 8 February 2013

Aim: To support small and medium sized enterprises to apply the Irish or bilingual external signage.
Support available: Match-funding of a maximum of €1,500 i.e. Shop- Fronts, Vehicle Signs, External Directional Signs, etc.
Target Group: Small and Medium Sized Commercial Businesses.
Application forms available here. Further information available from gno@forasnagaeilge.ie

Aim: To support small and medium sized entreprises to use and produce other visible Irish or Bilingual material.
Support available: Match-funding of a maximum of €1,000 for such materials as: stationery, packaging, websites, internal signage, leaflets, marketing material etc.
Target Group:Small and Medium sized commercial enterprises.
Application forms available here. Further information available from gno@forasnagaeilge.ie