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Music Capital Scheme One-to-One Consultation Sessions for applicants

Music Capital Scheme One-to-One Consultation Sessions for applicants

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Applications for the Music Capital Scheme 2025 are now open. Our range of supports is designed to help you make your application with a particular focus on supporting first time and previously unsuccessful applicants.

As part of our support for applicants we have a limited number of one-to-one consultation sessions with our seminar speakers.

If you would like to book a one-to-one consultation please email Abbi Temple at support@musicnetwork.ie. Please include your contact phone number, name of your organisation (if applicable) and let us know whether you have made any previous application to the Music Capital Scheme.

Please note, one-to-one sessions are limited and priority will go to first time and previously unsuccessful applicants. Attending a support session is not a guarantee of funding.
Find out more and sign up for our other supports for applicants
  • Online Information Session for Organisations - Tuesday 28 October, 10.30am to 11.30am. Register here.
  • Creating Your Governance Document for Organisations - Wednesday 29 October, 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Register here.
  • Creation of Recordings for Organisations - Thursday 31 October, 1.00pm to 2.00pm. Register here.
  • Artistic Planning for Organisations - Monday 3 November, 3.00pm to 4.00pm. Register here.
  • Writing Skills for Organisations - Wednesday 5 November, 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Register here. (TBC)
  • Online Information Session for Individuals - Tuesday 28 October, 1.00pm to 2.00pm. Register here.
  • Creation of Recordings for Individuals - Wednesday 30 October, 10.30am to 11.30am. Register here.
  • Writing Skills for Organisations - Wednesday 5 November, 10.30am to 11.30am. Register here. (TBC)
About our speakers

Sheila Cahill has worked in the voluntary and community sector in Ireland and the UK for the last 30 years and holds a Masters degree in Voluntary Sector Organisation from the London School of Economics. In her role as Director of Training and Support Services at Carmichael Centre, she provided a governance and management training programme of 60 courses a year to boards and staff of community and voluntary organisations.

She has been providing a freelance training and consultancy service since early 2008, with a particular focus on governance, strategic planning and the development of outcomes-focused monitoring and evaluation systems and assisted the Charity Regulator in the production of the Charities Governance Code. Recent clients include: Active Retirement Ireland, AsIAm, Chime, Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, Limerick Sports Partnership, Music Network, Screen Skills Ireland and The Wheel.

Mairéad O’Reilly is primarily a live sound engineer. She formed her own sound reinforcement company and worked freelance for 30 years. Her specialization has been engineering high quality sound for acoustic music. She has provided sound reinforcement for national and international concerts, festivals & tours and has also engineered live events for major recording artists such as Altan, John Martyn, Rhiannon Giddens and Townes Van Zandt among others.Mairéad holds a Master’s Degree in Digital Media Technologies from TU Dublin where she majored in Audio. She is also an AVID Certified Pro Tools Trainer. While lecturing in sound technology, Mairéad continued to mix occasional concerts and more recently decided to merge her wide experience in audio and education to launch 'MÓR Sound', a dedicated voice recording and post-production studio in Dublin, aimed at producing high quality audio for online learning, audio books, podcasts and vocalists.

Eibhlin Gleeson has extensive experience as a senior arts manager over 20 years. Having started her career as a musician, she is now a key figure in Ireland’s artistic landscape.  She was the CEO of Ireland’s flagship professional choir, Chamber Choir Ireland where she implemented significant organisational and structural change.  Following this, she developed her own arts management company, EMG Arts Management, providing strategic planning, marketing, fundraising, and international touring services to arts organisations in Ireland. In 2015, she became CEO and Artistic Director of Cork Opera House, one of Ireland’s flagship producing and presenting houses, a position which she still holds today. Here, she has presided over a new phase of producing, major organisational change and increased funding revenue and audience figures.

Eibhlin has a BMus from UCC and is a former fellow of the Kennedy Centre’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management in Washington, D.C. She was instrumental in establishing a new Arts Management and Creative Producing Master’s Degree in University College Cork, Ireland where she teaches on an ongoing basis.

Music Capital Scheme 2025

The Music Capital Scheme, which is supported by the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, provides funding for the purchase of musical instruments to individual professional musicians and non-professional groups across the country.

Deadline for applications: 2pm, Thursday 27 November 2025.

Any questions regarding the Music Capital Scheme can be sent to Sarah Ledwidge at capitalscheme@musicnetwork.ie or call +353 (0) 83 0162718.