Deadline: 1-Nov-22
The 2022 Small Grants Scheme under the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) is open to community and voluntary groups in the Cork City area who are working to promote social inclusion and address disadvantage.
These grants are intended to help community and voluntary groups who support SICAP target groups to purchase small items of capital.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant will be €1,500.
Targeted Groups
The target groups of SICAP are:
- Disadvantaged Children and Families.
- People living in Disadvantaged Communities.
- Disadvantaged Young People (aged 15 – 24).
- People with Disabilities.
- Disadvantaged Women.
- Roma.
- Emerging Needs Group (Older People).
- Travellers.
- Lone Parents.
- The Disengaged from the Labour Market (Economically Inactive).
- Low Income Workers/Households.
- The Unemployed.
- New Communities.
Criteria
The following criteria will apply:
- Grants will cover once off costs.
- Grants will cover small scale capital items that will improve and enhance the function of the group and its work.
- Where small-scale capital items have a higher cost than €1,500 there should be evidence that match funding is in place.
- Grants should not duplicate other sources of local funding by funding the same costs.
- Where relevant alternative funding is available to a particular sector, these groups will be ineligible.
- Supporting documentation, including invoices, delivery dockets etc. should be retained for a period of 6 years to facilitate verification checking by Cork City Partnership.
- Groups receiving funding will be recorded as a beneficiary of SICAP on the Programme’s IRIS database.
Assessment
The applications will be assessed in line with the following key considerations:
- Clear identification of need.
- Focus on SICAP target groups.
- Provision of clear and accurate costings.
Ineligible
Grants cannot be used to fund the following types of activities:
- Grants to statutory service providers operating breakfast clubs and homework support programmes.
- Funding for on-going running costs incurred by groups, for example rent, insurance, electricity, phone costs and office maintenance.
For more information, visit https://corkcitypartnership.ie/2022/10/small-grants-scheme-for-community-voluntary-groups-2022/