Deadline: 14-Jun-22
The Rethink Ireland has announced applications for the Impact Fund for Munster to provide a range of supports to help projects working to enhance the physical and mental health of communities across Munster.
The Impact Fund for Munster is a partnership between Rethink Ireland, the Parkes Family (Limerick), the Sunflower Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation for Ireland, and a number of private donors, with match funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development via the Dormant Accounts Fund.
There will also be a number of awards specifically for projects and/or organisations that use music, creativity, and the arts to enhance the physical and mental health of their communities.
Funding Information
- There will be between 8 and 10 awards available in total, and each Awardee will receive a cash grant (to a maximum of €65,000), mentoring support, and placement on Rethink Ireland’s capacity building programme.
Eligible Projects
- The Fund will support projects that address one or more of the below:
- Working to reduce negative mental health outcomes such as depression and anxiety.
- Addressing the unequal nature of negative health outcomes that are group-specific. For example; non-communicable diseases in those aged 65+, higher levels of ill health in people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, and/or high levels of anxiety and depression in young adults;
- Using Creativity, Music, and the Arts to tackle negative physical and mental health outcomes;
- Working to reduce the effects of non-communicable diseases such as stroke, heart disease, and cancer;
- Promoting collective mental health and physical health improvement at the community level
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is open to organisations that have a not-for-profit legal form, e.g. charity, social enterprise, and other voluntary organisations.
- Projects must meet both Rethink Ireland’s criteria and the specific criteria for the Fund, as set out below:
- Rethink Ireland Criteria
- The Project must:
- Address a critical social or environmental issue
- Be innovative in an Irish context
- Be based in the Republic of Ireland and have its main impact in Ireland
- Have the potential and desire to scale or replicate in Ireland
- Provide evidence that it is up and running, or has been tested at least in a minimal way
- The Project must:
- Rethink Ireland Criteria
- Impact Fund for Munster Core Criteria
- Projects must be working towards improving the physical and mental health of their beneficiaries, one or more of the following ways:
- Addressing negative mental health outcomes by using physical health interventions;
- Addressing negative physical health outcomes
- Tackling the rising rates of mental health disorders brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, including but not limited to rising levels of depression, anxiety and loneliness;
- Using Creativity, Music, and the Arts to address negative health outcomes, either physical and/or mental;
- The reduction of negative physical health outcomes, including but not limited to non-communicable diseases;
- Helping tackle drug abuse, misuse and addiction using methods such as, but not limited to education, prevention and/or intervention.
- The applicant must not be a public body. Collaborations with public bodies, where the main applicant(s) are community or third sector projects, can be considered for funding.
For more information, visit https://rethinkireland.ie/current_fund/impact-fund-for-munster-2022/