Deadline: 5-Aug-22
The Community Foundation Northern Ireland is excited to launch 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.
Focus Areas
They would particularly welcome applications for projects which focus on digital justice, environmental justice and feminism. 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
- Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.
- 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).
Eligible Projects
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 check signatures that are unrelated
- Have an income of £250k or less
The Foundation will not fund organizations or activities which promote causes that are contrary to their purposes. Causes and activities that are contrary to their purposes include, but may not be limited to, those outlined in their investment policy. They will not therefore fund organizations or activities which they determine are linked to the promotion of armaments, alcohol, human rights abuses, tobacco or pornography.
For more information, visit https://communityfoundationni.org/grants/social-justice-small-grants-programme/