Deadline: 13-Sep-2024
The Cavan County Council is pleased to announce the Community and Voluntary Organisation Grant Program.
The scheme aims to encourage local groups to implement projects that will result in greater social and economic activity. Projects should enhance the quality of citizens’ lives and lead to the sustainability of the local area.
Funding Information
- The total level of grant will be based on an annual allocation by Cavan County Council. Grants will not normally exceed €1,000 per project, per year. They will try to ensure that funding is distributed equally between the three Municipal District areas. The level of funding is determined on the number and type of applications received in the Municipal District Area.
Eligible Projects
- The following types of projects may qualify for grants:
- Provision of small scale amenity projects
- Provision of equipment
- Community led projects involved in heritage and cultural based tourism.
- Assistance to community based youth facilities, for example, materials, courses etc.
- Tidy Towns/Residents Associations planting/painting projects
- Technical assistance for groups to explore the potential of project proposals particularly those which can develop the Social and Economic potential of the area.
- Cultural development projects.
- Seeding support for the formation of new and emerging groups particularly those which target social exclusion.
Criteria
- Your group must have:
- An acceptable constitution of set of rules governing its membership, operations and management.
- Proper procedures and policies in place
- A Child Protection Policy including a vetting procedure (where activity includes children and young people under 18)
- A reasonable expectation of continuity.
- Your group must be non-political and non-sectarian.
Ineligible
- The scheme will not fund:
- Ongoing running costs.
- Servicing of debt repayments.
- Activities where adequate statutory funding is clearly available
- Festivals (there is a separate Festivals Grant Scheme)
- The Scheme will not fund groups that have received a grant for the previous three years in succession.
For more information, visit Cavan County Council.