The Lightbody Foundation Grant

Archived Adult Education/Learning Age Aged 26 - 59 years Aged 60+ Arts, culture and heritage Children (0-12) Community and neighbourhood development Community development Craft and design Education and learning Health promotion Health, wellbeing and sport Human rights and equality Medical research Offenders and ex-offenders People with disabilities Performing arts Poverty and deprivation Pre-school education Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Sport and physical recreation Verbal arts Visual arts and media Young people (13-25) 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) Small (up to £10,000)

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Overview

Funding Priorities

The Lightbody Foundation is seeking written proposals for projects supporting any of the following priorities:

Mental health
Children and adults with special needs
Activities to support adults with life challenges such as dementia
Activities to enable children and adults from marginalised and disadvantaged backgrounds access creative activities such as music
Engaging mentoring and support for young people and adults in creative activities
Sport
Cancer and disease research

The grant available will be £10,000 for each project supported. They intend to support six charities.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply you should ensure you meet the following criteria:

You are a locally based not-for-profit, voluntary or community group working in Northern Ireland to improve the quality of life for local people
You have an active management committee, with no two related cheque signatories
You have a governing document, i.e. Constitution in the name of the applicant organisation
You have a current (in credit) bank account in the name of your organisation
You have up to date annual accounts
You have complied with the conditions of previous grants, including submission of monitoring returns.

The fund will focus on costs associated with a particular project, directly addressing one of the priorities identified earlier. This might include facilitation costs and sessional costs for projects.

Projects must not therefore be solely for ongoing operational and core costs, including salaries.

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