Ireland’s only charitable organisation working at the intersection of commerce and culture.
Our mission is to encourage investment in the arts for the benefit of wider society.
Our vision is an Ireland where business and the arts working in partnership inspire and shape the world around us.
Our long-term corporate members range from large multinational companies, and SMEs across professional and financial services, construction, tech, and energy companies, to universities, and government and semi-state agencies.
Our arts members range from National Cultural Institutions to small regional arts venues and individual artists representing art forms from music, dance, theatre, visual art, craft, and heritage, through to circus and street performance, community arts and poetry.
Accenture, AIB, Allianz Ireland, Anonymous, Arthur Cox, Bank of Ireland Group, CBRE, Clancourt, Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, Dublin City Council, Dublin Port Company, ESB, Irish Life Group, KPMG, Life Insurance Association, Maples Group, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, SMBC Aviation Capital, TU Dublin, TileStyle
An Post, Bewleys, Bon Secours Health System, Cairn Homes, Catapult, Clinch Wealth Management, Ecclesiastical, Gorilla Design Ltd, Grant Thornton, Hamilton House, HLB Ireland, IADT, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail, Ibec, Irish Art Services, Mason Hayes & Curran, Matheson LLP, Ogier Ireland LLP, Philip Lee, Pinergy, Repak, Simmons & Simmons, Society of Actuaries in Ireland, Staycity Group, SW3 Capital, Taylor Wessing, The Irish Times Group, Three Ireland, University College Cork, VHI, Walls Construction
Addleshaw Goddard, Arts Council of Ireland, CCI Executive Search / Creative Careers, CFO Services, Creative & Cultural Industries Skillnet, Dublin City University, Fexco, Gormleys, Image Now, Ipsos B&A, Ivy Capital, McGarrell Reilly Group, Morgan McKinley, PFGi, Q4PR, The HIVE, The Merrion Hotel, University of Galway, Walkers Global, Whyte & Sons Auctioneers
Claire McHugh, Clodagh O'Brien, Davina Saint, Gerard McNaughton, Helen McCormack, Jeanne Kelly, Jerome Ó Drisceoil, John O Connell, Kate Smiley, Kieran O'Boyle, Marah Curtin, Margaret Ward, Natasha McKenna, Niamh Fawl, Oliver Wall, Owen Reilly, Pamela Fay, Seán Casey, Teresa McColgan
Aindrias de Staic, AM Fagan, Ani Mollereau, Anna Newell, Anne Harkin-Petersen, Anne Tannam, ANU Productions, Aoife Crowley, Axis Arts Centre, Backwater Artists Group, Ballymun Music Programme, Benchspace Cork, Bernadette Doolan, Bernie Bourke, Bernie Sherlock, Beta Festival, Big Look Art, Black Church Print Studio, Blueway Art Studio, Brian Teeling, Butler Gallery, Chamber Choir Ireland, Children's Books Ireland, Civic Theatre, Classical Kids, Connections Arts Centre, Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Cork International Film Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork Opera House, Cork Printmakers, Crash Ensemble, Create, Create School, Creative Spark, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Dance Ireland, Declan Canning, Diane Magee, DLR Mill Theatre, Druid, Dublin Choral Foundation, Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Éadaoin Glynn, Edwina Bracken, Elaine Desmond, Emma Jacobs Art, Entr'acte Musical & Dramatic Society, Eve O'Donnell, Feis Ceoil Association, Finding A Voice, Fishamble: The New Play Company, Flying Turtle Productions, Frances Ryan, Galway Community Circus, Galway International Arts Festival, GAZE International LGBTQIA Film Festival, Geraldine Carton, Gerard Byrne Studio, Graffiti Theatre Company, Gráinne Mulligan, Grant Designs, Graphic Studio Dublin, Hannah Blake, Helium, IMMA, Interface Inagh, Irish Aerial Creation Centre (IACC), Irish Architecture Foundation, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Irish Film Institute, Irish Georgian Society, Irish National Opera, Irish National Youth Ballet, Irish Street Arts, Circus and Spectacle Network, Irish Theatre Institute, Irish Traditional Music Archive, Irish Writers Centre, Jason Ellis, Jesse Jones, Joanne Ryan, Junk Ensemble, Karen Ebbs, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Lavit Gallery, Liam Bates, Lime Tree Theatre, Live Art Ireland, Mairead Ni Chroinin, Making In Cultural Programme by Joseph Walsh Studio, Marcelo Biglia, Maser, Michael Morris, MoLI - Museum of Literature Ireland, Music & Health Ireland, Music Generation, Music Network, Na Piobairi Uilleann, National Concert Hall, National Gallery of Ireland, National Irish Visual Arts Library, National Library of Ireland, National Museum of Ireland, National Opera House, Native Events, Nina McGowan, NYOI, Opera Collective Ireland, Outlandish Theatre Platform, Paddy Courtney, Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Peter Sheehan Studio, Photo Museum Ireland, PhotoIreland Festival, Poetry Ireland, Project Arts Centre, Roberto L. Delgado, Rough Magic Theatre Company, Royal Dublin Society, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Run of the Mill Theatre, Russborough House, Sample-Studios, Shane O'Neill, Sharon Murphy, Signal Arts Centre, Sing Ireland, Sligo Baroque Music Festival, South Tipperary Arts Centre, St. Patrick's Festival, TCA South Dublin Participatory Arts (Tallaght Community Arts), Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, The Abbey Theatre, The Ark, The Big Idea, The Discovery Programme, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Everyman Palace Theatre, The Five Lamps Arts Festival, The forest that won't forget, The Gaiety School of Acting, The International Dublin Writers' Festival, The Source Arts Centre, THISISPOPBABY, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Waterford Spraoi, Wexford Festival Opera, What About Us, Youth Theatre Ireland
Founded in 1988 as Cothú - The Irish Business Council for Arts & Heritage, Business to Arts began as a peer group of leading Irish businesses such as Bank of Ireland, Irish Shell, The Jones Group, Aer Rianta, Coyle Hamilton, and Clancourt Investments.
The inaugural ‘Arts Sponsor of the Year Awards’ was hosted in 1991, and would later become our annual Business to Arts Awards, a flagship date on the corporate-cultural calendar celebrating the best partnerships in the country.
Some of our most significant projects which have had a lasting impact on the arts sector include New Stream, a €400k investment from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to develop income-generation skills in Irish arts organisations in 2009, and Fund it, Ireland’s first creative crowdfunding website, which supported over 1,700 creative projects and generated over €5.2m for the creative sector between 2011 - 2023.
