Current Funding Opportunities
March 2025 Deadlines
Community Heritage Grant Scheme | Closing Date: 14 March
This scheme is intended to enable communities and heritage non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to continue their work on existing projects or to start new initiatives.
The scheme is open to:
- Voluntary and community groups for example parish councils, tidy Towns groups, local action groups etc
- Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) including not for profit trusts
- Museum Standards Programme for Ireland (MSPI) participants (non governmental organisations only)
- Adopt a Monument Programme participants
Zoom Information Webinar
A zoom information webinar about the scheme will be held on Friday 7th February 2025 at 12 noon. Register here
How and when to apply
You must apply through The Heritage Council’s online grants system.
Online application along with supporting documents must be submitted before the cut-off date: 14 March 2025 at 11.30pm.
All details on this grant and how to apply are at: https://www.heritagecouncil.ie/funding/community-heritage-grant-scheme-2
RTÉ Toy Show Appeal | Closing Date: 14 March
The RTÉ Toy Show Appeal is now open for its fifth year of grant making to improve the lives of children and their families by funding essential support, health, wellbeing, play, and creativity initiatives. Charities and organisations in every county invited to apply.
To ensure that as many children as possible can benefit applications are being invited under two rounds covering organisations of different sizes and scope. A community grants round will provide grants of €10,000 – €20,000. An impact grants round will provide grants of €20,000 – €50,000. Full application details https://www.communityfoundation.ie/grants/the-rte-toy-show-appeal-2025/
Closing Date: 14th Mar, 2025
Katharine Howard Foundation: ‘Children’s Promise’ | Closing Date: 20 March
Katharine Howard Foundation ‘Children’s Promise’ Grants Programme, in collaboration with Community Foundation Ireland and the Sunflower Charitable Foundation, aims to build on the powerful work taking place at community-level to address child poverty and nurture children’s potential with a grants programme of €1,000,000 in financial and non-financial supports.
For more information, please check out the website at the link: https://www.khf.ie/childrens-promise-grant-programme/
Safefood: Community Food Initiatives | Closing Date: 21 March
Safefood is inviting applications for funding for its Community Food Initiatives programme 2025-28. The programme is funded by Safefood and administered by SECAD Partnership CLG. Safefood is an all-island implementation body to promote awareness and knowledge of food safety and healthy eating.
SECAD will hold an online information session on 19 March 2025 from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm. Please email sconroy@secad.ie for details.
Please contact Sinéad Conroy at sconroy@secad.ie to receive the link to register and to make an online application.
The closing date for funding applications is 21 March 2025.
Rethink Ireland: Entrepreneurship Impact Fund – Strand 3 | Closing Date: 21 March
The Entrepreneurship Impact Fund’s Strand 3 is a unique opportunity for 5 minority-led social enterprises, taking an entrepreneurial approach to social change, to get support to deliver sustained individual and collective solutions across communities over a three year period and beyond.
You can apply to the Entrepreneurship Impact Fund – Strand 3 via the online portal until 21st March 2025 at 1pm (extended from the original deadline of 28th of February 2025).
For any questions you may have please contact entrepreneurship@rethinkireland.ie
Rethink Ireland: Brighter Futures Fund 2025-2028 | Closing Date: 24 March
The Brighter Futures Fund is a three-year fund aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing for marginalised groups in Ireland. We invite applications from projects and organisations that proactively identify mental health challenges within marginalised communities, enabling early intervention that can prevent the escalation of these issues. This fund is created by Rethink Ireland in partnership with an anonymous donor and the Department of Rural and Community Development via the Dormant Accounts Fund.
Brighter Futures Fund will support organisations representing a diverse range of vulnerable groups in Ireland dedicated to addressing mental health and wellbeing disparities. These may include groups such as LGBTQI+, Traveller, Roma, migrant, or refugee communities and other vulnerable groups.
You can apply to the Brighter Futures Fund via the online portal until Monday, 24 March 2025.
For any questions you may have, please contact us at brighterfutures@rethinkireland.ie.
Coca-Cola Thank You Fund 2025 | Closing Date: 26 March
A fund will be available to support community-based projects and programmes across Ireland and Northern Ireland that are focused on cultivating inclusive communities by empowering young people aged 16-25 to become skilled and engaged citizens under the pillars of inclusion and inspiration.
For more information on this fund please visit the Irish Youth Foundation website https://iyf.ie/coca-cola-thank-you-fund-2025/ or contact Aoibheann Murphy on aoibheann@iyf.ie.
Expiry Date: 26th Mar, 2025
Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund 2025 | Closing Date: 28 March
The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) is an EU fund that aims to boost national capacities and improve procedures for migration management, as well as to enhance solidarity and responsibility sharing between Member States.
The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth launched a Call for Proposals from organisations capable of providing rehabilitative services and other supports for survivors of torture and victims of cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment.
- A maximum of €1.5m will be made available to one or more organisations to provide rehabilitative services and other supports for survivors of torture residing in Ireland.
- Minimum grant amount of €495,000, over 1-2 years, under Ireland’s national programme for the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF).
Applicants can access a detailed guidance document and complete an online application form at the link: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/4ab75-amif-and-esf-funding/#2023-amif-open-call
Closing Date: 26th Mar, 2025
April 2025 Deadlines
Rethink Ireland: Connected Communities Fund 2025-2028 | Closing Date: 11 April
A three-year fund that aims to build inclusive and resilient communities and strengthen social cohesion across Ireland. Open to organisations dedicated to scaling innovations that strengthen civil society, build community cohesion and empower communities.
You can apply to the Connected Communities Fund via the online portal from Wednesday, 19 February to Friday, 11 April at 1pm.
Want more information?
Join the application clinic on Thursday, 20 March at 1pm: REGISTER
This one-hour webinar will provide more details on fund eligibility and the application process, plus an opportunity to answer any questions you may have.
For any queries, please contact us at connectedcommunities@rethinkireland.ie
Closing Date: 11th Apr, 2025
Current Open Calls
Community Grant Programme
The Community Grant programme supports new approaches to achieving energy efficiency in Irish communities. Each year SEAI supports multiple community projects across Ireland, managed by registered SEAI Project Co-ordinators.
Who benefits?
- homeowners
- community groups
- private sector organisations
- public sector bodies
Details at: https://www.seai.ie/grants/community-grants/overview
Artist in the Community Scheme | Different Awards
The Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme, managed by Create, offers awards to enable artists and communities of place and/or interest to work together on projects. The AIC Scheme also offers an annual bursary, as well as residencies and a summer school. The AIC scheme is open to artists from any of the following artform disciplines: architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts.
The link below page provides an outline of the awards, bursaries, and residencies offered by the AIC Scheme. Guidelines and application procedures can be found at the “AIC Awards” page. A number of case studies of previous projects are also available.
Community-based CCTV Grant Aid Scheme
The community-based CCTV grant aid scheme supports communities and local authorities who wish to install and maintain CCTV security systems in their area to increase public safety and to deter illegal or anti-social behaviour.
The maximum grant available for each CCTV system is €45,000.
Details at: https://www.gov.ie/en/service/3a6b2-community-based-cctv-grant-aid-scheme/
