Antrim Borough Council Community Services Grants
Overview
To apply for funding from Antrim Borough Council in the following programmes applicants must be:
- A properly constituted group from the community/voluntary sector
- Other group which demonstrates the support or involvement of disadvantaged and/or target group
- Based/working within the Antrim Borough Council area
Antrim Borough Council has a grant aid application process that covers the following areas of grant aid:
Seeding Grant: Used to help set up new groups and only available to those groups who have been in existence for one year or less. Up to £200
Community Premises: to support running costs for groups that provide facilities for community development activity. Groups must evidence that the building is in use for community development purposes for more than 50% of available time. Up to £2,250.
Community Outreach: to support groups to deliver community development programmes that meet Community Support Programme objectives. Groups who undertake a wide range of activities - up to 75% of public and emplopyer's liability costs up to £500. Groups running a programme of activities open to the community for a period of 1 week up to £1,500 and to support community development programming up to £500.
Technical Assistance: to support groups that wish to develop their organisation or range of activities that they undertake up to £1,000. To develop action plans, feasibility studies and relevant research projects and or to take part in training programmes.
Festival Funding: For one day or longer festivals which are about participation, involvement and the creation of a sense of identity, contributing to the social well-being of a community. Grant size dependent on size of the Festival.
Corporate Capital Grant Scheme: Antrim Borough Council, offers, on a limited basis, a Corporate Capital Grant Scheme, to community or voluntary groups for the purpose of developing capital projects specific to the main function of the group. However as capital grant programmes tend to be of a more complex nature and deal in larger amounts of money there is a limited number of these grants available each year - therefore Council budgets for this scheme are usually committed two to three years in advance.