Lisburn and Castlereagh Peace III Partnership
Archived
Active citizenship
Community and neighbourhood development
Cross community
good relations
Peace and reconciliation
Urban development
Voluntary and community infrastructure
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Medium (up to £60,000)
Small (up to £10,000)
Overview
The lead partner had been agreed by the cluster partners as Lisburn City Council which would have responsibility for management and implementation of the programme.
The Lisburn Castlereagh Partnership will be committing £2,025,000 to 5 programmes areas as follows:
- The Future Together Programme: Aims to target young people in areas of demographic change or need to positively address peace and reconciliation £450,000
- Celebrating Culture Programme: Aims to facilitate high quality, inclusive and non-threatening celebrations of culture and identity £225,000
- Working Bridges Programme: Aims to establish sustainable structures for cross border work delivering tangible outcomes £450,000.
- Making a Difference Programme: Small Grants Programme - aims to help local groups identify and tackle sectarianism and racism. £450,000
- Developing Capacity for Dialogue Across Communities Programme: Aims to assist local communities to better deliver change on the ground and engage in overarching cross community and cross border work. £450,000.
Small Grants Programme
Under Priority 1 - Reconciling Communities, Theme 1 - Building Positive Relations at Local Levelthere is a Small Grants programme. The Small Grant Programme is on the theme of "Making a Difference" and grants were available for amounts between £3,000 - £30,000 with project expenditure to be completed by 31 December 2010.
It is anticipated that applications to the Programme will deliver at least one of the following outcomes:
- Provide active citizenship and build community capacity to significantly address sectarianism, racism, conflict resolution or increasing participation of marginalised and minority groups.
- Embed good relations in local projects and equip people to deal with local issues relating to or arising from sectarianism and racism.
- Challenge sectarian attitudes and prejudices
- Increase networking across interface and cross-border areas
- Reductions in visible paramilitary style murals
- Increase shared space
- Provide training in relation to improved good relations for local people.