Omagh Enterprise: Do It For Real
Archived
Age
Communities
organisational development
social enterprise
Trading
Un/Employed
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)
Overview
Do it For Real will help young people in Northern Ireland, aged 16-30, discover their full potential and contribute to their communities, their futures and their livelihoods through social entrepreneurship. Omagh Enterprise Company will provide three packages of support to young people to start a social action project or venture, including funding, expert help, one to one guidance and networking:
- Test It Awards will provide funding of £500 to help you explore, plan and try out a social action idea.
- Do It Awards will offer up to £2,500 to transform an idea into a social venture and help you create a more positive social impact,
- Build It Awards will help your venture become sustainable by supporting personal expenses of £15,000 to enable you to commit to the social enterprise.
You could be eligible to apply for a Test It or Do It Award if:
- You are a young person (aged 16-30) living in Northern Ireland
- You are passionate about creating social change
- You have an idea for a solution to a social issue
- You can deliver social benefit in the UK
- Your idea/venture has the potential to become sustainable
- This will be a learning opportunity for you
You could be eligible to apply for a Build It Award if:
- You are a young person (aged 16-30) living in Northern Ireland
- You have identified a social issue and developed a business model that works to solve it.
- You have already achieved a compelling performance in your venture.
- You are experienced, ambitious and capable of growing your venture.
- You have a realistic growth plan and a track record of creating social impact.
- You are committed to working full time on your social venture.
- In addition, for a Build It Award you need to show that:
- Your venture is ideally less than 5 years old.
- Your venture is dynamic and has been running for at least one year.
- Your venture is ready to grow to local, regional or national scale and has a logical and appropriate plan to deliver this.
- You have a compelling performance to date and/or a logical and appropriate plan for rapid growth to reach local, regional or national scale.
- Your venture targets beneficiaries predominately based in Northern Ireland.