Deadline: 17-Jun-22
The Comminity Foundation Northern Ireland is pleased to announce the Social Justice Small Grants Programme to support local community groups with projects and initiatives that contribute to peacebuilding, tackle the impact of poverty and austerity measures and/or give voice to excluded groups.
Objectives
Applications must demonstrate that their proposal will contribute to at least one of the following objectives:
- Increase awareness of and contribute to building a culture of rights within and between communities, particularly those most marginalized from decision making
- Support communities and marginalized groups to find solutions to contentious issues
- Strengthen local capacity to advocate by building relationships/connections between communities, policy makers, politicians and funders
Thematical Areas
They have defined these three themes as:
- Digital justice: provides spaces through which people can investigate community problems, generate solutions, create media, and organize together. Digital justice promotes alternative energy, recycling and salvaging technology, and using technology to promote environmental solutions
- Access to and use of information and communication technologies impacts individuals and the community as a whole. A digitally inclusive community is important to civic participation, education, healthcare, public/personal safety, economic and workforce development.
- Environmental justice: is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, colour, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
- Environmental justice will ensure that no-one’s health in the community will suffer because of the environment in which they live, work, learn, play or socialise.
- Feminist Justice: advocates for women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes where women have rights and opportunities equal to those of men which includes activities and actions that have the intent to achieve this goal.
Funding Information
- Up to a max of £5,000 per annum.
- An additional £1k to £1.5k Mentor support will also be provided.
- It will be a condition of the award that you work with a Mentor in the development of you project and issue(s).
Project Ideas
- Developing Community Charter
- Rights/Culture/Identity Projects
- “Benefit Take Up” Campaigns
- Anti-Poverty Initiatives
- Projects which contribute to Peace Building
- Projects which tackle digital justice, environmental justice and feminism
Target Group:
- Community Sector
- Locally based community groups and locally based ‘communities of interest’ with an interest in promoting or embedding human rights and social justice in their day to day work for and with their chosen communities.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for consideration for grant, the applicant groups must:
- Be constituted and based in Northern Ireland or working towards being constituted
- Have an active committee and bank account
- Maintain financial records and present accounts to your AGM
- Provide minutes of committee meetings
- Have at least three cheque signatories who are unrelated
- Have an income of £250k or less
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/social-justice-small-grants-programme/