Live Here Love Here: Small Grants Scheme

Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful

Open (with deadline for applications) Active citizenship Buildings and built environment Community and neighbourhood development Community development environment Natural environment and climate Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Voluntary and community infrastructure volunteering 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

The Live Here Love Here Small Grants Scheme aims to promote civic pride within communities and enhance the environmental quality of shared community spaces. The Small Grants Scheme is a partnership between local councils, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Belfast Harbour and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.

Projects the grant supports

Increase civic pride and enhance the quality of local green spaces
Transform underused areas into vibrant, valued community spaces
Improve community health and wellbeing through the enhancement of public spaces
Promote environmentally focused actions and boost local biodiversity
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Previously Funded Projects
The Small Grants Scheme 2024–25 successfully supported 115 groups across Northern Ireland, helping them deliver a wide range of local environmental projects with a total investment of £196,342.
The scheme attracted an impressive 378 applications and achieved a 94% project completion rate. Funded projects included the transformation of community gardens, food-growing projects, litter-picking campaigns, biodiversity recovery efforts, and many more creative ways to green up local areas.

Scheme will fund

Contribute to the development of civic pride within a community, with a focus on environmental improvement.
Enhance the environmental management of a local area.
Improve the health and wellbeing of communities whilst helping to improve and/or maintain public spaces.
Improve the quality of the local environment by reducing littering and dog fouling through community action.
Support environmentally focused actions that help support people impacted through reduced contact with society.
Relate to environmental improvement in coastal areas or inland waterways

Eligibility

The Scheme supports small, locally managed community groups and schools to develop environmental improvement projects for the benefit of the wider community.

Applications are welcome from: