Community Foundation for NI: Cloonty Community Benefit Fund
Community Foundation for Northern Ireland
Currently closed for applications
Active citizenship
Age
Aged 60+
Arts, culture and heritage
Buildings and built environment
Built heritage
Children (0-12)
Communities
Community and neighbourhood development
Community development
Cultural, events and festivals
environment
Family and parenting
Health, wellbeing and sport
Natural environment and climate
Performing arts
Rural development
Social inclusion
Social partnership
Social welfare and poverty
Sport and physical recreation
Sustainable development
Verbal arts
Visual arts and media
Voluntary and community infrastructure
Young people (13-25)
Causeway Coast and Glens
Micro (up to £1,000)
Small (up to £10,000)
Overview
The Cloonty Community Benefit Fund is available to local community projects within 6km of the Cloonty Wind Farm site which is located in an area bounded by the B17 Straid Road to the north, the B62 Ballybogey Road to the west and B147 Kirk Road / Ballintea Road to the south and east.
Applicant organisations must be located within the 6 km radius (*straight-line measurement).
Grants available of up to £4,000.
The Cloonty Community Benefit Fund is administered by the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland.
The fund aims to encourage:
- Stronger more inclusive communities by ensuring that local people have ownership and involvement in the design and delivery of the project.
- Partnership working with community, voluntary and statutory agencies
to ensure a coordinated approach. - Sustainable solutions that address local issues.
The fund will support projects addressing issues within the following theme areas:
- Older people
- Families with young children
- Young people
- Environment and living spaces
- Community Partnerships
Priority will be given to:
- Projects aimed at providing skills development for young adults and/or the unemployed
- Inter-generational projects
- Collaborative projects
- Projects tackling rural isolation
- Projects based around community arts
- Projects which improve the utilisation of community space
*Measurement of applicant organisation address will be a straight-line measurement from the location of the windfarm using google maps.
In 2023 the success rate for applications to this fund was 50%.
Key dates
Review scheme 03/10/2025