Cregganconroe Community Benefit Fund

Closing Date:

Feb 14, 2025 13:00

• Area:

• Within a 6-mile radius of the wind farm.

• Grant size:

• Grants up to £2,000

• Priorities:

• * Any programmes/projects that address marginalisation and help tackle rural isolation. * Projects that have a particular emphasis on maximising community space. * Activities/services that are specifically aimed at children and young people and older people; provision of local educational classes/training courses and health related initiatives and arts/cultural activities. * Projects designed to improve and develop local environmental schemes. * Priority will be given to beneficiaries within the Pomeroy area given their close proximity to the wind farm. * Projects that encourage greater cross community interaction at a local level with a focus on improving relations between nationalist and unionist communities in the area.

This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe - a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. GCN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.

Inishative Community Benefit Fund

Closing Date:

Feb 14, 2025 13:00

• Area:

• Within a 6-mile radius of the wind farm.

• Grant size:

• Grants up to £2,000

• Priorities:

• * Projects that improve the utilisation of existing community space in each of the above areas. * Activities/services that are specifically aimed at older people, people with disabilities, children and teenagers (including pre-school children), providing skills development of local people and promoting health related activities or services. * Given the remoteness of some of these locations, the isolation and lack of statutory transport provision consideration will be given to local transport initiatives. * Projects and programmes offering invaluable advice and information and signposting on key rural issues. * Outdoor / Environmental projects in terms of encouraging a healthier and active community as well as protecting and enhancing the local environment. * Wider community events and programmes that encourage greater community interaction (including cross community aspects) encompassing the local rich and varied cultural aspects of music, drama, dance and sport. * Priority will be given to projects which demonstrate the ability to collaborate, network and share best practice.

This local community benefit fund was set up by Gaelectric in 2016 and is now managed by CGN Europe - a wind energy and energy storage company that believes in a sustainable future. GCN is committed to ensuring that their wind farms, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provide significant economic benefits to the local community.

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.