Deadline: 25-Oct-2024
The Community Foundation Ireland is accepting applications for the Biodiversity Fund Program to enhance biodiversity in communities throughout the country by combining the expertise of qualified ecologists with the skills, experience and enthusiasm of local community groups.
Priorities
- This includes the following:
- Proposals that focus on engaging the wider community and demonstrate an intention and capacity to work closely with local landowners, managers, and particularly farmers.
- Proposals which consider biodiversity within towns and villages themselves, alongside their green areas, rivers, farms, and parks. This includes streets, laneways, and buildings where protection and enhancement of biodiversity is often neglected.
Types of Grants
- Three levels of grant funding will be offered:
- Strand 1: Grants of €5,000 for community groups to work with an ecologist to classify their local habitats, assess their condition and extent, map them, and define a suite of actions to enhance biodiversity.
- Strand 2: Grants of €8,000 for community groups who carry out the work outlined in Strand 1 in collaboration with one or two land managers/owners — particularly farmers —to classify habitats at landscape scale with a focus on field boundaries (hedgerows, treelines and stone walls), assess their condition and extent, map them and define a suite of actions to enhance biodiversity.
- Strand 3: Grants of €11,000 for community groups who carry out the work outlined in Strand 1 in collaboration with three or more land managers/owners and particularly farmers, to classify habitats at landscape scale with a focus on field boundaries (hedgerows, treelines, and stone walls), assess their condition and extent, map them and define a suite of actions to enhance biodiversity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations
- Can be registered charity or local community/voluntary group
- Must have an annual income of less than € 2,000,000
- Have up to date and sufficient governing documents, annual accounts and a dedicated bank account for your group.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Statutory bodies
- For-profit companies
- Organisations outside the Republic of Ireland
- Individual people who are not part of an organisation
For more information, visit Community Foundation Ireland.