Other Funders | Arts Council NI
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## Other National Lottery Funding Distributors
The National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
NI Screen receives public funding and also some National Lottery funding from the Arts Council for particular screen projects.
## Local Government
Local Government bodies distribute funding for arts and cultural projects across NI. Access local government Arts and Culture funding in any of the 11 Council areas listed:
Belfast City Council [...] Jerwood Arts, part of The Jerwood Foundation, providing independent funding for early-career artists, makers, curators and producers to develop and thrive across the UK. An NI example, Outburst Arts.
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation makes unrestricted, core and project grants that support funding priorities linked to Creative, Confident Communities, where there is equality of access to arts and culture, and where communities are at the heart of change. [...] The PRS Foundation helps established musicians, emerging talent, songwriters, bands, composers, organisations, promoters. They help support music creators from all backgrounds, who want to take their career in new directions.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK has an ARTS ACCESS AND PARTICIPATION FUND which addresses inequalities of opportunity to access and participate in the arts.
Eligibility
- ✓ artists, arts organisations, arts consortium organisations, artist-led/partnership-led collaborative projects
- ✓ Northern Ireland
- ✓ Any
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Last verified: 29 March 2026