Deadline: 24-Oct-23
The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland is inviting applications for the Cloonty Community Benefit Fund.
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 Cloonty Community Benefit Fund is available to local community projects within 6km of the Cloonty Wind Farm site which is located in an area bounded by the B17 Straid Road to the north, the B62 Ballybogey Road to the west and B147 Kirk Road/Ballintea Road to the south and east.
Aims
- The fund aims to encourage:
- Stronger more inclusive communities by ensuring that local people have ownership and involvement in the design and delivery of the project.
- Partnership working with community, voluntary and statutory agencies.
- to ensure a coordinated approach.
- Sustainable solutions that address local issues.
Thematic Areas
- The fund will support projects addressing issues within the following theme areas:
- Older people
- Families with young children
- Young people
- Environment and living spaces
- Community Partnerships
Priorities
- Priority will be given to:
- Projects aimed at providing skills development for young adults and/or the unemployed
- Inter-generational projects
- Collaborative projects
- Projects tackling rural isolation
- Projects based around community arts
- Projects which improve the utilisation of community space
Funding Information
- Grant size: Grants up to £10,000
What they can’t fund:
- The Community Foundation will not fund organisations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to the purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to the purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in the 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 returns.
Ineligible
- the Cloonty 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;
- Applications from individuals;
- Applications from statutory organisations;
- Salaried posts;
- Trips abroad;
- Vehicles;
- Activities that duplicate existing services;
- Retrospective Funding;
- Substitution for statutory funding.
For more information, visit Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.