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Community Event Grant

Community event grants provide seed funding for new or up-and-coming festivals and events that demonstrate goals to enhance arts, culture, heritage and alignment with the Social Policy. The total amount allocated for the 2025 Community Event Grant budget is $40,000. 

The City understands that festivals and events are vital to advancing the quality of life for all citizens in Airdrie and these events have a positive effect on social well-being. Council’s strategic vision is to enhance the unique arts, culture and recreational aspects of Airdrie and to demonstrate the value our City places on diversity, inclusion and connection.

Event grant application streams

Community event grants are intended to support the production and programming of events hosted by organizations and groups, which can be directed to support the costs of:

  • Festival and event production (insurance, marketing, etc.), and/or;
  • Festival and event programming.

Organizations and groups can apply once per year to the program stream they are eligible for:

  1. First time festivals and events: Grant requests for up to $2,500 to support organizers bringing new (first year) events to Airdrie that are expected to draw more than 200 attendees. City of Airdrie gift-in-kind contributions such as facility fee waivers will be considered and factored in as part of the request.
  2. Up and coming festivals and events: Grant requests of up to $5,000 to support organizers for events that are in year two or three of a reoccurring festival or event with an attendance of more than 200 but less than 10,000. City of Airdrie gift-in-kind contributions such as facility fee waivers will be considered and factored in as part of the request.

Applications are open to organizations and groups producing an event for the citizens of Airdrie.

Event grant deadlines and intake periods for 2025

Applications will be accepted throughout the year and reviewed two times (2) per year (March and September) until all available grant funds for the year have been allocated. Applicants will be notified by email within 30 days after the deadline.

  • Spring/Summer Events - Intake runs Oct. 1 – Feb. 28, 2025. Funding announcements will be made on or before March 31, 2025.
  • Fall/Winter Events - Intake runs April 1 - Aug. 31, 2025. Funding announcements will be made on or before September 30, 2025.

Submit a Community Event Grant Application