Funding Alert: Change Maker Funding Programme Open for Applications
The Change Maker Funding Programme will distribute €40m over the next three years to support people to people projects on a cross community and/or cross-border basis, delivering awards of up to €100,000 directly into communities.
Grants are provided under PEACEPLUS themes:
- 1: Building Peaceful and Thriving Communities
- To promote positive relations characterised by respect, where cultural diversity is celebrated and people can live, learn, and socialise together, free from prejudice, hate and intolerance.
and
- 6: Building and Embedding Partnerships and Collaboration
- To strengthen trust-building activities among citizens as a founding pillar for cross-border co-operation.
Investment Areas 1.2 (Strand 1) and 6.2 will be collectively promoted as the Change Maker Funding Programme.
Strand 1: Small grants programme is the focus of their first call
This objective is to promote positive relations characterised by respect, where cultural diversity is celebrated and people can live, learn, and socialise together, free from prejudice, hate and intolerance. Funded projects will enable community groups to work on shared challenges, on a cross-community basis.
All projects must have a strong focus on improving cross community and cross-border relationships and applications should clearly identify a Lead Partner Organisation.
The programme area for the PEACEPLUS Programme is:
- Northern Ireland
- The border counties of Ireland (Counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan, and Sligo),
and thematic focus of projects may span a broad range of areas and groups.
A total value of €20 million has been allocated to this Investment Area with individual projects from €10,000 to €100,000.
- Applications between €10,000 and up to €20,000 is now open and is available on a rolling basis (no deadlines).
- Applications over €20,000 up to €60,000 and up to €100,000 will have three calls to be advertised with various Opening and Closing dates throughout the programme timescale.
Grants are available to cover 100% of the eligible costs of the project.
Full details here: https://www.seupb.eu/peaceplus/change-maker-funding-programme
