Deadline: 23-Oct-23
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland is now accepting applications for the Dunmore Community Benefit Fund.
This local community fund has been set up to ensure that Dunmore Wind Farm, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, also provides significant social and economic benefits to the local community.
Funding is available to local community projects that are planned and run for the benefit of the local population and are within 15 miles (straight-line measurement) of the windfarm. Applicant organisations must be located in this area.
Focus Areas
- The fund welcomes applications from constituted community and voluntary groups that address the following areas:
- Community cohesion and engagement;
- Energy efficiency and sustainability;
- Social, cultural or sporting benefit for the local community;
- Training and education;
- Environmental benefit;
- Economic benefit.
Funding Information
- Grant Size: Grants of up to £2,500
What they can’t fund:
- The Community Foundation will not fund organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to our purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to our purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in our investment policy. They will not therefore fund organisations or activities which they determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography.
Eligibility Criteria
- You are a locally based not-for-profit, voluntary or community group working in Northern Ireland to improve the quality of life for local people
- You have an active management committee, with no two related cheque signatories
- You have a governing document, i.e. Constitution in the name of the applicant organisation
- You have a current bank account in the name of your organisation
- You have up to date annual accounts
- You have complied with the conditions of previous grants including submission of monitoring return
Ineligible
- Dunmore Community Benefit Fund will not support:
- The advancement of religion. This includes organisations whose purposes include the advancement of religion;
- The establishment of endowment of any school or institution providing further education within the meaning of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;
- The provision of assistance to any Housing Association within the meaning of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1976;
- Promotion of religious or political activity, including any flags and emblems that may deem to be associated with such;
- CIC Companies Limited by Shares, or CICs without an asset lock clause. Eligible CICs must have at least three unrelated committee members, and/or the majority of the committee unrelated;
- Individuals;
- Funding for retrospective project costs;
- Organisations which adopt a partisan political stance or activities which are party political. They will not support organisations that advocate the use of violence to campaign or influence public opinion;
- General appeals, individual and group sponsorship, marketing appeals, proposals for bursaries from individuals or proposals from individuals for the funding of study or attainment of qualifications;
- The provision of services that are the primary and legal responsibility of the state;
- Input VAT reclaimable from HMRC;
- Payments reimbursed or to be reimbursed by other public or private sector funding;
- Contributions in kind (i.e. a contribution in goods or services, as opposed to money);
- Depreciation, amortisation or impairment of fixed Assets owned by the group;
- Interest payments (including service charge payments for finance leases);
- Gifts to individuals other than promotional items with a value of no more than £25 a year to any one individual;
- Entertaining (entertaining for this purpose means anything that would be a taxable benefit to the person being entertained, according to current UK tax regulations).
For more information, visit Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.