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.

An Ciste ULTACH / The Ultach Fund

Closing Date:

May 2, 2025 13:00

• Area:

• Ceantar: Tuaisceart Éireann / Northern Ireland

• Grant size:

• Deontais ar Fáil: Suas le £4,000 / Grants Available: Up to £4,000

• Priorities:

• Tionscadail a chuireann chun cinn agus a spreagann úsáid na Gaeilge ag leibhéal pobail. Tugtar tús áite do thionscadail a chuireann chun cinn úsáid ghníomhach na Gaeilge agus/nó suim inti; Tionscadail a léiríonn cur chuige nuálach, samhlaíoch, cruthaitheach maidir le healaíona Gaeilge; Tionscadail a dhéanann cheiliúrann agus a ghlacann le hoidhreacht chultúrtha na Gaeilge; Tionscadail a léiríonn gnéithe trasphobail agus/nó a bhaineann lucht éisteachta úr amach agus a chuireann chun cinn comhthuiscint idir pobail éagsúla. Projects that promote and encourage the use of the Irish language at community level; Priority is given to projects that promote the active use of and/or engagement with the Irish language; Projects that demonstrate innovative, imaginative, creative approaches to Irish language arts; Projects that celebrate and embrace the cultural heritage of the Irish language; Projects that demonstrate cross-community aspects and/or reach new audiences, promoting mutual understanding and contact between different communities.

Is le caipiteal ó Iontaobhas Ultach a bunaíodh an Ciste Ultach. Tá sé ann le tacú le pobail ar fud Thuaisceart Éireann ar mian leo an Ghaeilge a úsáid agus a chur chun cinn trí obair carthanas cláraithe, grúpaí deonacha agus grúpaí pobail.

The Ultach Fund was established with capital from The Iontaobhas Ultach Trust. It exists to support the work of communities across Northern Ireland who wish to use and promote the Irish language, through the work of registered charities, voluntary and community groups.

Circle of Change Fund

Closing Date:

Apr 30, 2025 13:00

• Area:

• Greater Belfast Metropolitan Area - priority will be given to projects in North Belfast.

• Grant size:

• £5000

• Priorities:

• • The promotion of curiosity and conversations across different communities and backgrounds, recognising our shared humanity; • Community based approaches to improving mental health and addressing issues of trauma • Supporting people to take action against racism and value difference • The kind of work we are particularly interested in includes: • Peer to peer support;

The Circle of Change are a group of people from all backgrounds from around Northern Ireland who have come together to talk about and learn from each other about the root causes of issues affecting our communities, particularly around North Belfast, and over 6 months we pool our fundraising and make grants to organisations working on those issues.

In our conversations we’ve learnt from each other, and it has reminded us of the power of connecting with other people; we’ve heard stories of how people have seen the impact of poor mental health on their communities; and we’ve heard about how racism in Northern Ireland can often remain unchallenged. We want to apply this learning to grants that we make.

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.