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ESB’s Energy for Generations Fund – UK & Ireland

Deadline: 13-Oct-21

Electricity Supply Board’s (ESB) Energy for Generations Fund sees €1m per year disbursed through a quarterly fund to charities working in the areas of suicide prevention, homelessness and education access and support.

The Energy for Generations Fund is to maximise the impact of the investment by taking a more strategic approach to effect change. Funding is only part of the jigsaw – they also want to leverage the skills and knowledge they have within the company to bring about more sustainable and positive outcomes.
Focus Areas
  • Suicide Prevention: They will fund services and projects working to promote positive mental health and to build capacity, skills and training to make effective suicide prevention interventions.
  • Homelessness: They will fund services and projects benefiting homeless people and those at risk of homelessness.
  • Education: Proposals are invited from the following:
    • Early years and early primary schools projects focusing on literacy and numeracy;
    • Secondary level proposals promoting science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM);
    • Adult education return-to-education programmes aimed at those long-term out of work.
Funding Information
  • Each year the Fund awards €1 million in direct funding through a quarterly fund to charities.
  • The guideline application amount is c. €15,000. This is neither a minimum nor a maximum, rather an indication of the scale of the resources available. Average funding awards in recent years have been c. €8,000 – €12,000.
ESB does NOT support
The ESB Energy for Generations Fund does not support:
  • Individuals and individual fundraisers
  • Third party fundraising (e.g. fundraising events)
  • High risk ventures
  • Retrospective funding
  • Community counselling services
  • Single school applications and school completion projects
  • Overseas work
Eligibility Criteria
  • The proposed projects should:
    • Be informed by evidence and focused on outcomes
    • Provide tangible and local benefits
    • Be sustainable after ESB funding ends
    • Leave a lasting legacy in local communities
  • The project must be located within the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.

For more information, visit https://www.esb.ie/acting-responsibly/community-stem-and-the-arts/esb-corporate-responsibility