Youth Arts Training Grant 2025/26 (Ards and North Down Borough Council)

Overview

Ards and North Down Borough Council 

YOUTH ARTS TRAINING GRANT 2025/26

For opportunities taking place between 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026.

The aim of Ards and North Down Borough Council’s Youth Arts Training Grant to help support young people (aged 11 – 21 years) in their artistic development through training and development opportunities.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

To be eligible you must meet all the following criteria:

• Resident within the Ards and North Down Borough Council Area.
• Aged 11 – 21 years*. 
• Applying to, or have been accepted or invited onto, a youth arts training course or youth arts development opportunity.

*Artists aged over 21 years should apply to the Individual Artists Grant.

WHAT IS AVAILABLE?

A maximum grant of £250 is available. 

CRITERIA

Please read the full Youth Arts Training Grant Criteria document below before completing your application. You may also download the Criteria which is linked at the bottom of this page (under the headline "Related").

SUPPORT MATERIAL

It is recommended that you compile the essential documentation in the following formats before completing your application online, ready to be uploaded: 

• Evidence of the course/training/activity programme or publication (PDF document is preferable). 
• Receipts/invoices/evidence of costs (PDF document is preferable). 
• A letter of acceptance or invite onto course/training/activity if applicable (PDF document is preferable). 

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Monday 24 February 2025, 11:59pm (sharp)

Please Note: Application form will shut at 11:59pm sharp and incomplete applications will be lost.

We encourage applications to be completed by the youth applying for the Youth Arts Training Grant as this demonstrates the commitment of the applicant. 

Please allow plenty of time to complete your application ahead of the date of the deadline.

IMPORTANT

It is recommended that before submitting your application that you click the 'save and come back later' button at the bottom left of each page. This will save your work allowing you to return to it. You will need to complete each question on that page before you can save the work or move on to the next page. If you submit your application without saving your work, and you experience an IT issue or loss of internet connection, your work will be lost and you will have to start again. 

PLEASE NOTE

If you require special assistance with this application process, require a one-to-one telephone/video meeting for advice, or would prefer to complete a Word version of this application, please contact us before the deadline (no later than 12 noon, Monday 10 February 2025) so this can be arranged. 

Email: artsgrants@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk for more information.

Once applicants have successfully submitted their proposal on the system, they will receive an automated acknowledgement email with their unique reference number. Please check your junk folder. If you do not receive this email, then your application has not been submitted.

If you experience any problems with this online application form, please contact Ards Arts Centre before the deadline: arts@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk