Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has launched applications for its Energy for Generations Fund to maximise the impact of their investment by taking a more strategic approach to effect change.
Electricity Supply Board’s (ESB) Energy for Generations Fund sees €1m per year disbursed through a quarterly fund to charities working in the areas of suicide prevention, homelessness and education access and support.
Focus Areas
- Suicide Prevention: They will fund services and projects working to promote positive mental health and to build capacity, skills and training to make effective suicide prevention interventions.
- Homelessness: They will fund services and projects benefiting homeless people and those at risk of homelessness.
- Education: Proposals are invited from the following:
- Early years and early primary schools projects focusing on literacy and numeracy;
- Secondary level proposals promoting science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM);
- Adult education return-to-education programmes aimed at those long-term out of work.
Funding Information
- Each year the Fund awards €1 million in direct funding through a quarterly fund to charities.
- The guideline application amount is c. €15,000. This is neither a minimum nor a maximum, rather an indication of the scale of the resources available. Average funding awards in recent years have been c. €8,000 – €12,000.
ESB does not support
The ESB Energy for Generations Fund does not support:
- Individuals and individual fundraisers
- Third party fundraising (e.g. fundraising events)
- High risk ventures
- Retrospective funding
- Community counselling services
- Single school applications and school completion projects
- Overseas work
Eligibility Criteria
- The proposed projects should:
- Be informed by evidence and focused on outcomes
- Provide tangible and local benefits
- Be sustainable after ESB funding ends
- Leave a lasting legacy in local communities
- The project must be located within the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland.
For more information, visit https://www.esb.ie/acting-responsibly/community-stem-and-the-arts/esb-corporate-responsibility