Digital projects for the Community Heritage Grant
You know the history. We help bring it online.
The Community Heritage Grant Scheme supports community-led heritage projects across Ireland. Where a project involves digital access, storytelling or archiving, Dino Digital can scope the digital work and provide the detailed quotation your group attaches to its application.
Community Heritage Grant Scheme 2027 — Heritage Council
Applications open (as of September 2026)
Stage one is an expression of interest describing the project. Digital work may fit under the Digital Heritage, Access and Storytelling theme depending on the scheme guidelines and your proposal.
- Expressions of interest
- 18 September – 16 October 2026
- Grant range
- €800 – €25,000
- Relevant theme
- Digital Heritage, Access and Storytelling
- Applicant
- Your group or society applies; we supply the digital detail
Heritage Council — Community Heritage Grant Scheme
Always read the current official scheme guidelines before applying. Dates, themes and amounts are set by the Heritage Council and can change.
Projects we can contribute to
- Community digital archives
- Local-history collections online
- Oral history recording and publication
- Digital exhibitions
- Heritage websites for societies and parishes
- Digital story trails with QR stops
- Photograph collections with context and captions
- Interactive heritage maps
- Public-access databases (graves, records, townlands)
- Digital interpretation for sites and buildings
Whether any of this is covered depends on the scheme and the proposal; digital work may form part of eligible projects.
Free readiness check before you apply
Our readiness check walks through the Community Heritage Grant expression-of-interest stage in plain English and emails your group a summary. It is free and takes a few minutes.
Example project scopes
Examples only, to show how a digital project can be described and costed in an application. Every quotation is written for your own project.
Community digital archive
Guide: around €7,500
- Searchable archive with categories
- Photographs, documents, oral histories and maps
- Admin area for the committee
- Submission and approval workflow
- Training for volunteers
- Hosting options explained
Digital heritage trail
Guide: €5,000 – €7,000
- 8 to 15 trail stops
- Interactive route map
- Story page per stop
- QR codes for on-site scanning
- Mobile-first, no app required
- Training for the group
Digital interpretation with panels
Guide: on scope
- Research supplied by the community
- Copywriting and editing
- Panel design for on-site installation
- QR links to deeper mobile pages
- Interactive map of the sites
- Accessibility and analytics
Tell us your project
Send us the outline and we will help turn it into a clearly scoped digital project with a detailed quotation you can attach to your funding application. We work with groups nationwide, and regularly with societies in Kilkenny, Laois, Carlow, Offaly, Kildare, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow.
Dino Digital is an independent digital heritage company and is not affiliated with the Heritage Council, any Local Authority or any grant-awarding organisation. Grant eligibility and funding decisions remain entirely with the funding organisation.
Digital work may form part of eligible projects depending on the scheme and the proposal. We never guarantee funding.