Volunteering Small Grants Programme

Archived Active citizenship Aged 60+ Black and minority ethnic Communities Community and neighbourhood development Community development Governance and charity law Human rights and equality Monitoring and evaluation organisational development People with disabilities Rural development Social inclusion Social welfare and poverty Strategic and project planning Un/Employed Urban development Voluntary and community infrastructure volunteering 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

Limavady Community Development Initiative, as lead partner for the Association of Independent Volunteer Centres, has been appointed by DSD as the Intermediary Funding Body for the Volunteering Small Grants Programme for Northern Ireland.

To be eligible for grant assistance (minimum award £200 – maximum award £1,200) organisations must not have an annual income exceeding £100,000 per year.

Examples of grant awards would be for meeting the volunteer out-of-pocket expenses of an organisation, providing travel or equipment costs for volunteers etc.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for funding, organisations must demonstrate how their proposal delivers on at least one of the programme outcomes set out below.

Objective 1: Increase Volunteer activity by groups under-represented in the volunteering population, including people not in paid work.

Objective 2: nnovation – Increasing Diversity and Numbers

Objective 3: Increase in numbers of new Volunteers

Objective 4: New Approaches to Involvement of Volunteers

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