Community Festivals Fund

Grant Amount: £750-£3,000

Purpose: to support community organised festivals that enable communities to enhance their quality of life through participation and engagement in culture, arts and leisure activities.

Closing Date: Friday 2nd February 2024 at 12 noon

The following costs can be applied for: Event insurance, Venue hire, Performance fees, Transport within the community/ area that the Festival is taking place in, Equipment hire, Signage, Advertising, marketing and media costs, Printing, Administration (stationery, postage etc.)

Social Connections Grant

Grant amount: £500

Purpose: to address loneliness and isolation and build social connections.

Closing Date: rolling programme

We want to fund projects that:

create more opportunities to bring people together to make connections doing something they enjoy;
help to reduce the social isolation that can be a result of experiencing financial difficulties;
enable local activities to become more accessible.

You might be operating a Warm Space scheme, or planning an arts and craft programme or a community growing project or yoga classes and could apply for the grant towards the costs of venue hire, transport, refreshments, tutors or materials.

This is a rolling grant programme for activity from 1st April onwards and applications will be assessed on a regular basis within 3 weeks of applying.

You can find the online application forms and guidance notes at https://grants.ccgbcapps.com/

If you've any queries please get in touch with us at community.development@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk.

There are a number of other grants open for applications and details of these can be found at https://www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk/grantsandfunding: