This opportunity closed for Expressions of Interest on Monday 12th January 2026, 12 noon.
✓ Are you a Creative or Community Organization?
✓ Would you like to partner with Limerick City & County Council (LCCC) to develop, and submit, an application to the Creative Ireland Shared Island Initiative?
✓ Do you have a project idea that meets the criteria for either Creative Communities on a Shared Island 2026-28, or Creative Health & Wellbeing in the Community on a Shared Island 2026-28?
✓ Have you identified a partner in Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and/or Wales?
✓ Does your organisation have the capacity to deliver a project of scale and ambition over a 2.5-year period
In late 2025, Creative Ireland and the Shared Island Initiative announced their intention to partner once again for 2026 - 28. In December 2025, they launched three separate grant calls: Creative Health & Wellbeing in the Community on a Shared Island 2026-28; Creative Communities on a Shared Island 2026-28; and the Creative Youth Nurture Fund on a Shared island 2026-28.
For both the Health & Wellbeing, and the Creative Communities, grant call the lead applicant must be a local authority based in Ireland, such as LCCC. In order to determine potential partners, in a fair and equitable manner, for these applications, LCCC requested those interested to submit an ‘Expression of Interest’ (EOI) to creativeireland@limerick.ie no later than 12noon on Monday 12th January 2026.
All submissions were assessed by the Creative Ireland Coordinator and Creative Communities Engagement Officer, in consultation with the Limerick Culture & Creativity team. From this assessment we determined which organisations / individuals we worked with in January and February with a view to developing an application for these grant calls. Please note there is no guarantee that Creative Ireland will chose to fund any of the applications received from LCCC. Further, the preparation work in January and February is unpaid.
Applicants were asked to read both the Expressions of Interest document (below), and the national grant call briefing documents Creative Grant Call 2025 - Creative Ireland Programme, before making a submission. Please note that organisations who applied for the Creative Youth Nurture Fund on a Shared island 2026-28, applications could not be led by a local authority. However, we offered advice or guidance upon request via creativeireland@limerick.ie.