Open call for Community Safety Fund (Ireland)

Objectives

• The Community safety fund:
  • Allows proceeds of crime to be directed into community projects to support community safety
  • Ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety receive the funding they require
  • Encourages the development of proposals to improve community safety from those people who best understand local community safety needs
  • Allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
  • Reflects and highlights the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds from criminal activity.

Funding Information

• Grants will be in the range of €20,000 – €150,000. Smaller or larger grants may be considered on merit on an exceptional basis.

Eligible Activities

• Proposals could include activities intended to:
  • tackle crime or reduce the fear of crime; improve community safety and feelings of safety
  • support the creation of safe and resilient communities
  • reduce re-offending
  • divert vulnerable individuals away from engagement in criminal behaviour.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications will be invited from existing community safety initiatives as well as groups co funded with local authorities, NGOs and community organisations working on issues relevant to community safety and youth justice.
• Applications may be submitted by individual organisations, or by a consortium involving two or more organisations where the lead partner is a community organisation, not-forprofit, social enterprise or similar with a remit relevant to community safety and/or youth justice.
• Applications with innovative approaches will be afforded particular consideration.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Applications from the following are not eligible:
  • Applications from individuals or private sector businesses
  • Applications for repeat or regular events and existing activities
  • Applications for activities which would usually be included in a Youth Diversion Project (YDP) Annual Plan, even if the application is by a different youth service to that already funded under the YDP programme
  • Applications for statutory service delivery which should normally be undertaken within the remit of a statutory service delivery organisation
  • Repeat funding of CSIF/CSF projects will not be considered
  • Applications for new Community Safety Warden Schemes will not be considered in this round as the Department is currently undertaking a review of schemes previously resourced through this funding stream.

Assessment Criteria

• The criteria against which grant applications will be assessed includes the following:
  • How well the proposed initiative has considered community safety and youth justice and the intended impact of the initiative. Whether the proposed project has identified both a gap in community safety and youth justice and a priority need to address that gap
  • How well the proposed project would meet that need/address that gap and how feasible and sustainable the impact of the proposed initiative is in achieving positive outcomes
  • How the proposed project would benefit community safety and youth justice with particular regard to disadvantaged communities, rural areas and groups at risk of marginalisation and multiple discrimination where relevant.

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