Deadline: 31-Jan-23
The Cavan Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) is inviting applications from community groups and community facilities for the Community Support Fund under the Community Enhancement Programme 2022.
Purpose
The Community Support Fund will support groups, particularly in disadvantaged areas:
- With their non-pay running costs such as energy costs (electricity costs, refuse charges, heating charges) or other non-pay operating costs for e.g. rental/lease costs, insurance bills.
- Groups will also be able to use the funding to carry out necessary repairs and improvements to their facilities, purchase equipment for e.g. such as tables and chairs, tools and signage, laptops and printers, lawnmowers, canopies and training equipment etc.
- This funding will help communities, community groups and committees, allowing them to continue to provide valuable services to the people in their area, and in the process strengthen the bonds that tie communities together.
Funding Information
- The Department has recommended that LCDCs ring-fence 30% funding to provide small grants of €1,000 or less.
- Maximum capital funding per application is limited to €10,000.00.
Eligible Projects
- Projects must be in keeping with the ethos of the programme, which is to provide funding to communities across Ireland to enhance facilities in disadvantaged areas. Projects may also be judged having regard to how they:
- Support local groups and clubs, which serve their communities.
- invest to increase or extend the use of the facility, for example, to voluntary and community groups;
- reduce the annual running cost of a facility;
- have a positive impact on the environment, for example, a reduction in energy consumption;
- demonstrate collaboration with the local authority or other relevant bodies in the catchment area;
- support the creation of a sense of place within the community including through the enhancement of the built environment;
- address health and safety issues; and/or,
- invest in technology which will be accessed by individuals and communities that are impacted by disadvantage.
Target Groups: This funding is targeted towards supporting communities that are impacted by disadvantage as identified in the LECP
Eligibility Criteria
- The Community Support Fund (CSF) provides funding to support community groups across Ireland.
- Any not-for-profit community or voluntary group can apply.
- Commercial organisations and individuals are not eligible for funding.
Ineligible
The following expenditure is not eligible for funding:
- Any project not in keeping with the ethos of the Programme
- Employment costs
- Legal fees
- Project management fees
- Purchase of lands or buildings
- Feasibility studies
- Private or commercial operations
- Costs which are being paid for by another funder or department
- Costs which are being paid under the Community and Voluntary Energy Support scheme which was administered by Pobail are not eligible.
- Invoices which are already have been paid under Communities Activities Fund from 1st April 2022 to 30th June 2022 are not eligible.
For more information, visit Cavan.