Community Foundation for NI: Long Mountain Community Benefit Fund
Overview
This local community fund has been set up by Energia Renewables, working in close partnership with local groups from the areas surrounding the Long Mountain Wind Farm, Glenbuck Road, Dunloy.
Energia has set up the fund to ensure that the wind farm, whilst having obvious environmental benefits, will also provide significant social and economic benefits to the local community.
Funding will be available to local community projects that are planned and run for the benefit of the local population and are within 5 miles of the centre of the windfarm.
Applicant organisations must be located within the 5-mile radius (*straight-line measurement).
Grant size
Up to £3,000
The fund will support projects addressing issues within the following theme areas:
- Projects developing cross community relations
- Energy efficiency and sustainability of local community facilities
- Social, cultural or sporting benefit for the local community
- Educational issues with a sustainability angle
- Environmental benefit or economic benefit
Examples of who can apply:
- Constituted voluntary organisations and community groups
- Local youth groups
Examples of projects that the fund might support:
- Local cultural projects recording and researching history
- Establishment of a “Men’s Shed” or other similar initiative
- Small capital works to a community facility
- Contributions to core costs to run local community facilities/projects
- Environmental awareness projects
- Activities supporting young people, the elderly, those with disabilities
- Community wide events
- Strategic projects that will benefit a number of communities, including partnership applications with a particular focus on enhancement of community relations
Please note: Applicants that currently hold a live grant under this programme: Can you please submit your monitoring and spend information for this grant as soon as possible as this will need to be submitted prior to payment of any new award, if your application is successful.
*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 100%.