Evishagaran and Craiggore Community Benefit Fund

Closing Date:

Apr 28, 2025 13:00

• Area:

• Within a 7km radius of the Evishagaran and Craiggore wind farm sites

• Grant size:

• Grants up to £4,000. If additional funding is available from this fund, the panel may decide to award grants up to £10,000

• Priorities:

• - Education programmes for the next generation on the topics of Sustainability and Renewable Energy - Collaborative projects - Projects that aim to improve the health of residents, particularly mental health - Projects that promote care & support of vulnerable people, particularly relating to the cost of living/fuel poverty

The Evishagaran and Craiggore Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund was established in 2022 by the ERG Group.

The fund’s aim is to provide financial support towards the development of locally-beneficial community-based projects and initiatives within a 7km radius of Evishagaran and Craiggore wind farms, Dungiven.

Applications are invited from charities and community organisations based within a 7km radius of the Evishagaran and Craiggore wind farm sites.

Keadue Community Grants Fund

Closing Date:

Apr 11, 2025 13:00

• Area:

• Derry City and surrounding Waterside areas

• Grant size:

• Grant sizes will typically be between £10k and £20k to be awarded over periods of up to two years.

• Priorities:

• For the shortlisting process we will prioritise organisations that: Are embedded in the local community and can evidence knowledge of local issues ; Can provide impact stories of meeting need; Can provide long term support to the people they are helping if needed; Can specify organisational need; Recognises the need to provide skills-building for staff and volunteers; Are well regarded in the local community, and if needed, can provide 2 references

Keadue Community Grants Fund was established by a local family to provide support to local organisations tackling the growing social need in Derry City and surrounding Waterside areas.

The SWEF Enterprise Fund

Ongoing - No Deadline

• Area:

• Northern Ireland

• Grant size:

• Up to £2,000

• Priorities:

• To be eligible to apply, you need to: - Be between the ages of 18-30 - Live in Northern Ireland - Be running your own business which has been trading for no more than 2 years or planning to start your own business imminently - Be from a low-income household or facing other financial challenges preventing you from developing your business

Community Foundation NI is working in partnership with SWEF Enterprise Fund which helps young people from Northern Ireland develop their business idea and gain support with business investment that they would otherwise not be able to afford.

Grants of up to £2,000 are available to help young people in Northern Ireland who are running their own business which has been trading for no more than 2 years or planning to start their own business imminently, to help a business expand or become more sustainable.

Micro Community Investment Fund

Ongoing - No Deadline

• Area:

• Northern Ireland

• Grant size:

• Up to £1,500

• Priorities:

• Financial wellbeing, physical wellbeing and mental wellbeing. Focus on the positive contribution of people within the community. Enable active participation of a community in decision-making and involvement in making their community a better place to live in. Focus on the assets within the community which the project will use to make the community a better place to live in. Help get people engaged in taking community action where it hasn’t happened before to make the community a better place to live in. Projects that address more than one particular strand of well being.

The Micro Community Investment Fund has been launched in partnership with Bank of Ireland and Comic Relief, in recognition and celebration of the contribution of voluntary groups and people to our society and the need for a simple application process for small amounts of funding.

The fund will provide valuable investment for community initiatives making a difference in towns and villages across Northern Ireland.