Community Foundation for NI: Pressure Group Fund
Archived
Active citizenship
Communities
Policy, advocacy and campaigning
Antrim & Newtownabbey
Ards & North Down
Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon
Belfast City
Causeway Coast and Glens
Derry City and Strabane
Fermanagh and Omagh
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Mid and East Antrim
Mid Ulster
Newry, Mourne and Down
Northern Ireland
Micro (up to £1,000)
Overview
Purpose Of The Fund
This Fund Aims To Encouarge
- Applications are invited for projects that can demonstrate how they are trying to address social injustice and what the impact of their work will be. In particular how they will encourage civic action, working with groups and individuals to get their voices heard by decision-makers.
- Priority will be given to projects that demonstrate that they are representing minorities whose voices are excluded from current decision-making.
What Level Of Grants Is Available?
Grants size – £1000, with potential for further £1000
What Does This Fund Support?
- Examples of projects where they can offer some support include groups who wish to promote discussion and debate on key issues, educating local people on specific issues, enhancing democratic participation and diversity where it is not currently happening, articulating issues that local politicians and government decision-makers are not currently addressing adequately.
Who Can Apply?
- Constituted and unconstituted groups ie: groups of people coming together to address a particular issue who do not have any formal governance structure
- In the event of groups coming together who do not have any formal governance structure payment can be made to an individual as long as the group provide evidence of spend on as agreed in the award offer. Payment can be made directly to the supplier if either the Foundation or the applicant believes this to be appropriate.
In the event of payments directly to the applicant, they must have access to a current account to enable the Foundation to make a payment via the BACS system.