Community Safety Fund 2025 launches

The nationwide funding call for the Community Safety Fund 2025 has launched.

The annual fund allows for the proceeds of crime, seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and An Garda Síochána, to be directed into local projects to support and enhance community safety.

This year, €4 million is available, which is double the original allocation of €2 million when the fund first opened for applications in 2022, and grants range from €20,000 to €150,000.

The call for the Community Safety Fund is open for six weeks from today Monday 7 April, closing on Friday 16 May.

More information on Community Safety can be found at: www.gov.ie/communitysafety.

The Fund:

• allows proceeds of crime to be directed into projects to support and enhance community safety
• ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will access the funding they need
• allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
• benefits from the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds from criminal activity

Projects that have previously benefited from the funding supported initiatives that:

• reduce the fear of crime; improve community safety and feelings of safety
• support the creation of safe and resilient communities
• reduce reoffending
• divert vulnerable individuals away from engagement in criminal behaviour