SUPPORT DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL

Radical art is only made with your support. DONATE NOW. 

Every year, 5,000+ artists take the stage with our support. With your support, they could go even further.

Dublin Fringe Festival is a registered charity supporting Ireland’s emerging artists year-round. This festival is where bold ideas, daring performances, and unforgettable experiences come to life. For over 30 years, we’ve been the heartbeat of Dublin’s cultural scene—connecting adventurous audiences with fearless artists who push boundaries and reimagine what’s possible. Directly invest in the future of Ireland’s creative talent today. Find out about the different ways you can support our journey below from donation, to partnership, to corporate sponsorship.

As a charity, we rely on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations. By donating you help us: 

Invest in artists and their groundbreaking projects. 
Provide essential resources like mentorship, studio space, and funding. 
Create extraordinary cultural moments for audiences across Dublin.

In 2024 alone, we supported over 5000 artists and arts workers, presented 520 performances, and welcomed over 26,000 attendees during the festival. Beyond the festival, we provided 5,000+ artists with year-round support including mentoring, training, and 3,900 hours of free studio time to create, innovate, and dream big. 

In 2025, Dublin Fringe Festival will host 85 events: 492 performances in 36 venues, boasting 56 world premieres and 67 Irish premieres, with over 650 artists set to take over the city. More than half of these artists are making work at Dublin Fringe for the very first time, being supported to make bold, era-defining projects.

Together, we can ensure Dublin Fringe Festival continues to be a platform for creativity, experimentation, and connection—fuelling the arts and enriching our city. 

Why Your Support Matters

Thanks to bold arts-lovers like you and your organisations, we’ve:

Supported over 70,000 artists to create excellent, boundary-pushing work.
Programmed nearly 2,500 shows and held 20,000 performances.
Connected 750,000 audience members to contemporary conversations, radical work, and great nights out.

But we’re not done yet. With your support, we can:

Give free studio space to artists creating new work; providing the 5000+ artists we support annually with space to play, innovate and create
Provide integral peer-to-peer mentorship for early career artists; giving artists access to industry-leading mentors
Offer free tickets to community groups who experience financial barriers to access performing arts
Provide ISL interpretation or audio description for Dublin Fringe Festival performances
Support the development of our interdisciplinary commissions strand: creating radical performances for adventurous audiences

Every contribution makes a difference. All donations and sponsorships are invested in artists and their projects, giving them the resources they need to dream big. Be part of Dublin Fringe Festival. Donate or partner with us today. 

Registered charity number: 20037772.

Ways to Connect

Become a Fringe Friend

Friend to fringe, Friend to the Dublin Artistic community – sign up here.

We’re always looking for new pals! Our brilliant friends help to bolster the work we do year-round, ensuring that new artists and new work develop and thrive. Participating in our Friend scheme facilitates the work we do year-round, our annual multidisciplinary festival and our artist support schemes.

Become a friend, with an annual contribution to Dublin Fringe Festival and a year-round connection to the Dublin artistic scene.

FIREWORK - €250
By signing up to become a FIREWORK you receive:

LIMITED EDITION Dublin Fringe ‘Artists Make A City’ Unframed Print
Quarterly Dublin Fringe Updates
Early Bird Tickets for programme highlights
Dublin Fringe Festival Brochure

FLAME - €150
By signing up to become a FLAME you receive:

Quarterly Dublin Fringe Updates
Early Bird Tickets for Festival programme highlights
Dublin Fringe Festival Brochure

SPARK - €75
By signing up to become a SPARK you receive:

Quarterly Dublin Fringe Updates
Dublin Fringe Festival Brochure

A huge and heartfelt thank you to our Fringe Friends for bringing the magic to Dublin Fringe Festival: Ann-Marie Carroll, Declan Clifford, Michelle De Forge, Rev. Ultan Dillon, Kate Duke, Ms. Deirdre Flaherty, Luke Hardcastle, Brenda Harrington, Jess Majekodunmi, Mr. Eamonn Moriarty, Mr. Barry O'Connor, Ms. Fiona Walsh, Kevin O’Riordan.

Join our monthly 30 Years & Counting Campaign

Dublin Fringe Festival is committed to connecting adventurous audiences and risk-taking artists, and we’ve been busy. We’ve worked with over 70,000 artists, programmed 2,500 shows, and reached nearly 750,000 audience members. But we need your help to keep the magic alive for the next 30 years.

Here’s How You Can Help: For just €21 a month - less than the price of a coffee a week - you can help sustain the work of the 5,000+ artists we support annually and ensure that Dublin’s arts scene stays vibrant and accessible.

And it gets better: Every €250 donation annually qualifies for the Charitable Donation Scheme, meaning your gift could grow by up to 45% at no extra cost to you! 

This isn’t just about celebrating 30 years - it’s about ensuring the future of Dublin Fringe Festival. With rising costs and industry-wide challenges, your support ensures we remain a fearless, risk-taking platform for artists and audiences alike. Your generosity today will help us create unforgettable festivals and keep Dublin Fringe at the heart of the city’s cultural life.

JOIN NOW 

A huge thanks to those who have supported our 30 Years and Counting Campaign: Miles Harrigan, Brian Melarkey, Brad Sharek, David Flynn, Oonagh O'Donovan, John Crowley, Aideen McQueen, Julie Blakeney, Aoife Ní Mhaoláin, Bob Hecklestein, Eamonn Moriarty, Shannon Lacek

Make a Once Off Donation

MAKE A DIFFERENCE, DONATE NOW 

If you're not in the position to donate to one of our longer term schemes, give what you can: all donations are invested in artists and their projects, giving them the resources they need to dream big and give you great nights out!

€5 supports one artist meeting over a cup of coffee

€25 funds one artist networking event 

€65 provides an artist with a day of studio space to develop an idea

€120 can provide a mentorship opportunity for an artist creating bold new work

€200 provides a workshop for emerging artists from an industry expert 

€600 subsides a week in studio 

Dublin Fringe Festival utilises all of our resources to support the creation of exceptional contemporary performance, supporting emerging and established artists across the industry.

Matched Giving

Matched Giving is where your employer agrees to match any donation you make to charity, thereby doubling the amount you give. Many companies in Ireland already offer matched giving schemes, so if you’re looking to donate to us or set up a fundraiser, do double check whether your employer can double it!

Become a Corporate Partner

Partner with Dublin Fringe Festival: be a driving force in shaping Ireland’s cultural future by supporting Ireland’s largest multidisciplinary arts festival.

Dublin Fringe Festival is a catalyst for bold ideas and groundbreaking talent, shaping the future of the Irish arts sector. As a partner, your company will be directly linked to this creative energy, positioning your brand at the forefront of cultural innovation and inclusivity.

Dublin Fringe Festival offers a number of flexible partnership packages to brands with value and ethos alignment, we look forward to building long-term partnerships that grow both organisations. With flexible collaboration options, we offer bespoke partnerships designed to create meaningful impact and high visibility for your brand.

We work with brands across event programming and year-round artist support initiatives, always creating scale appropriate, lasting impact for artistic and local communities.

If you’re interested in discussing what a partnership with Dublin Fringe Festival might look like, please contact Festival Director Bee Sparks on bee@fringefest.com.

Local Business Partnership

Dublin Fringe Festival relies on our exceptional neighbours, partnering with a number of local businesses through our Neighbourhood scheme to provide support to participating Festival artists, staff, crew and volunteers. These businesses range from restaurants, to spas, to seamstresses, to accommodation partners. We create meaningful partnerships with all kinds of businesses. Access new audiences, raise your brand awareness and have an awesome time at Fringe as our guests! 

We are able to support these business and corporate supporters through complimentary advertising, hospitality and group bookings and exclusive invitations and listings on our business database shared with thousands of artists and partners per year.

Become a part of the Fringe network today. Contact Head of Marketing, Jen Breslin to discuss partnership opportunities.

Perks of the partnership might include:

Tickets to festival shows
Listing and logo as Festival partner on festival website and brochure
Invite to festival launch and our Awards ceremony
10% discount on staff bookings
Marketing via advertising in our festival brochure & social media shout outs
Inclusion in our Neighbourhood Scheme

Charitable Gifting

If you are interested in giving a gift to Dublin Fringe we would love to chat with you.

Dublin Fringe is a year-round artist support organisation, championing talent development and artform development. We want you to be a part of that work behind the scenes - your gift would directly support an opportunity for an emerging artist.

Speak to Executive Director Elissavet Chatzinota or Head of Marketing Jen Breslin to find out more about building a relationship with Dublin Fringe Festival.