Deadline: 13-Jun-25
The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is accepting applications for its Social Justice Grant Programme to support local community groups to give voice to excluded groups, and work to advance a fairer and more equal society where the human rights of all are protected.
The fund will support locally based community groups and locally based ‘communities of interest’ with an interest in promoting or embedding human rights and social justice in their day-to-day work for and with their chosen communities.
Objectives
- Applications must demonstrate that their proposal will contribute to at least one of the following objectives:
- To give voice and power to those whose human rights are most at risk and to support them to challenge inequality, exclusion, and unfairness.
- To provide groups and communities with support to challenge, monitor and remedy inequality and rights violations.
- To increase awareness of and contribute to building a culture of rights within and between communities, particularly those most marginalized from decision making
- To support communities and marginalized groups to find solutions to contentious issues
Project Ideas
- Rights/Culture/Identity Projects
- Anti-Poverty Initiatives
- Projects which contribute to Peace Building
- Projects which tackle digital justice, environmental justice, and feminism
Funding Information
- Grants will be available up to £5,000. In very exceptional circumstances the panel may decide to award grants up to £15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for consideration for a grant, the applicant groups must:
- be constituted and based in Northern Ireland or working towards being constituted
- have an active committee and current bank account
- maintain financial records and present accounts to your AGM
- provide minutes of committee meetings
- have at least three cheque signatories who are unrelated
- have an income of £1.5m or less
Ineligibility Criteria
- 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
- Activities that duplicate existing services
- Retrospective funding
- Capital build projects or large equipment purchases
- Dinners, fund-raising promotions, or other ticketed events
- Individuals
- Substitution for statutory funding
- Projects where the Foundation’s contribution is a minor part of a larger funded initiative
- Initiatives that involve redistributing the funding as small grants
- Organisations that did not comply with reporting requirements of previous grant aid
- International trips
- Sole Traders or Private Business/Companies
For more information, visit The Community Foundation Northern Ireland.
