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, Aviva, Bank of Ireland Group, CBRE, Clinch Wealth Management, Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Dublin City Council, Dublin Port Company, ESB, Irish Life Group, KPMG, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, SMBC Aviation Capital, TU Dublin, TileStyle
An Post, Bewleys, Catapult, Cairn Homes, Ecclesiastical, Hamilton House, HLB Ireland, IADT, Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail, Ibec, Irish Art Services, Kmend, LK Shields, Mason Hayes & Curran, Matheson LLP, Ogier Ireland LLP, Philip Lee, Pinergy, Repak, Society of Actuaries in Ireland, Staycity Group, SW3 Capital, The Irish Times Group, Taylor Wessing, Three Ireland, University College Cork, VHI, Walls Construction
Arts Council of Ireland, IPSOS B&A, CCI Executive Search/Creative Careers, CFO Services, Creative & Cultural Industries Skillnet, Dublin City University, Fexco, Gormleys, Image Now, Ivy Capital, McGarrell Reilly Group, Morgan McKinley, Odgers Berndtson, University of Galway, Q4PR, The HIVE, The Merrion Hotel, Walkers, Whyte & Sons Auctioneers, Xcentuate
Marah Curtin, Helen McCormack, Pamela Fay, Jeanne Kelly, Vasilisa Lebed, Teresa McColgan, Claire McHugh, Natasha McKenna, Gerard McNaughton, Clodagh O’Brien, Kieran O’Boyle, Owen Reilly, Davina Saint, Kate Smiley, Charley Stoney, Oliver Wall, Margaret Ward
Aindrias de Staic, Ani Mollereau, Anna Newell, Anne Harkin-Petersen, Anne Tannam, Aoife Crowley, ArtNetdlr, Axis Arts Centre, Backwater Artists Group, Benchspace Cork, Bernadette Doolan, Bernie Bourke, Bernie Sherlock, Beta Festival, Big Look Art, Birr Festivals Collective, Black Church Print Studio, Blueway Art Studio, Brian Teeling, Butler Gallery, Ceol Connected, Chamber Choir Ireland, Children's Books Ireland, Civic Theatre, Classical Kids, Connections Arts Centre, Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Cork International Film Festival, Cork Opera House, Cork Printmakers, Crash Ensemble, Create, Creative Spark, Dance Ireland, Declan Canning, Diane Magee, DLR Mill Theatre , Doherty Sculpture Park, Druid, Dublin Choral Foundation, Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, Dublin Youth Dance Company, Eamonn Doyle, 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 , Geraldine Carton, Gerard Byrne Studio, Graffiti Theatre Company, Grant Designs, Graphic Studio Dublin, Hannah Blake, Helium, IFTA, IMMA, Interface Inagh, Irene O Neill, Irish Aerial Creation Centre (IACC), Irish Architecture Foundation, Irish Association of Youth Orchestras, 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, Joanne Ryan, Junk Ensemble, Karen Ebbs, Karen Ní Bhroin, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Liam Bates, Lime Tree Theatre, 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, Nina McGowan, NYOI, Opera Collective Ireland, Outlandish Theatre Platform, Pallas Projects/Studios, Patricia Clyne-Kelly, Patrick Kavanagh Centre, 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, Science Gallery International, Sharon Murphy, Sheila Richardson Art, Signal Arts Centre, Simo-Design, Sing Ireland, Sligo Baroque Music Festival, Smock Alley Theatre, SO Fine Art Editions, Sorca O'Farrell, South Tipperary Arts Centre, St. Patrick's Festival, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, The Abbey Theatre, The Ark, The Big Idea House, The Discovery Programme, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Everyman Palace Theatre, The Five Lamps Arts Festival, The Gaiety School of Acting, The Green Gallery, The Little Museum of Dublin, The Source Arts Centre, Thérèse Murphy, THISISPOPBABY, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Waterford Spraoi, Westival, Wexford Festival Opera, What About Us
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.
