Round One of the Fáilte Ireland Festivals and Participative Events Fund open for applications

Organisers of Longford 2025 festivals and events encouraged to apply before 31 January deadline

Press Release: Wednesday, 22 January 2025 

The Fáilte Ireland Festivals and Participative Events Fund is now open for applications. Longford Tourism, part of Longford County Council, is encouraging festival and event organisers to apply.

The fund seeks to support County Longford festivals and events which take place over at least two consecutive days and are held from 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025. The festival or event should drive domestic and international tourism, increasing economic activity within the community.

The fund aims to support community and voluntary groups who are organising a diverse range of events. It also aims to enhance Longford as a great place to live, work and visit.

This is Round One of the Fáilte Ireland Festivals and Participative Events Fund. Round two of the fund will be advertised later this year and cover the period of July to December.

The Regional Festival and Participative Events Fund is aimed at the festivals and participative events that fit into one of the following categories:

  • General festivals (for example, literacy, historic, traditional culture or family focused)
  • Arts, music and theatre
  • Food and drink 
  • Sports and outdoors 
  • Business and education 
  • Others 

The following categories of festival and participative events are also ineligible for this funding:

  • Purely commercial events with limited tourism appeal 
  • Agricultural shows and countryside fairs with limited tourism appeal 
  • Spectator-based sporting events 
  • Circuses and carnivals 
  • Christmas fairs and markets 

This fund will not fund ongoing running costs of organisations, the servicing of debt repayments, or activities where adequate statutory funding is already available.

To apply, visit the News page of Longford.ie and fill in the online application form. Only completed submissions received via the online application form will be considered and must be submitted by 6pm on Friday, 31 January 2025. Incomplete applications and those after the closing date will not be considered.

For more information, contact Longford Tourism on 043 33 435 09 or by email to tourism@longfordcoco.ie.