Building partnerships is central to our approach. We consider funding agencies and sponsors as partners alongside children, artists, teachers, arts organisations and community groups, in order to build high quality arts programmes. Core resources at Kids' Own are ideas and people and for that reason our work isn't geographically fixed. We try to maintain a balance of activities that keeps us centred in our local community but have also expanded to initiating and delivering projects around the world.
Kids’ Own has a good reputation and is now firmly on the map in Ireland as an art organisation specialising in publishing with children with the specialist ability to work with children of all ages and abilities.
Revenue Funding
- The Arts Council
- The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Project Funders and Partners
- ACMI (The Australian Centre for the moving image)
- ArtPlay, Melbourne
- Mayo Library Service
- Donegal Library Service
- Dunlaoghaire Rathdown Library Service
- Cork County Library Service
- North Tipperary Arts Office
- The Ark
- IMMA
- Barnardos
- Belfast Education & Library Board, NI
- Cavan County Council Arts Office
- Citizen Information Centres
- CLE
- Cork County Council
- Development Co-operation Ireland
- INTERREG
- Irish Youth Foundation
- Kildare County Council
- Kildare LEADER
- Louth County Council
- Melbourne City Council
- Model Arts and Niland Gallery
- Monaghan Youth Service
- National Youth Federation
- North Eastern Health Board
- Omagh College
- Schools Completion Programme
- Sligo County Council Arts Office
- Sligo Leader Partnership
- South Eastern Education & Library Board, NI
- Southern Education & Library Board, NI
- The Nerve Centre, Derry
- Traveller Education and Development Group
- Visiting Teachers for Travellers
- Youth Reach
