Financial Assistance

The Ulster-Scots Agency has as its remit “the promotion of greater awareness and use of Ullans1 and of Ulster-Scots cultural issues, both within Northern Ireland and throughout the island”.

Within this remit the aim of the Agency is to:

•  Promote the study, conservation, development and use of Ulster-Scots as a living language; 

 •  Encourage and develop the full range of its attendant culture;

 •  Promote an understanding of the history of the Ulster-Scots

The Agency is empowered to offer financial assistance to those groups which:-

 •  Wish to undertake programmes which fall within the Agency’s remit; 

 •  Would not otherwise have the necessary resources to do so without the Agency’s financial input;

 •  Meet the necessary criteria for the award of assistance.

Please note that the Ulster-Scots Agency is unable to offer any further financial assistance for the remainder of the 2007 year, having fully committed our budget for this year. 

However, if your application is for music tuition or dancing tuition classes that is/are beginning later this year and the submission date for return of expenses/costs (normally three months from the date of the event/project or end of tuition classes) is Jan 2008 and onwards, then we will consider your application with the condition that any possible grant payment can only be made from January 2008 onwards.