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LGBTI+ Youth Fund 2024
From Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
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The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is inviting applications from organisations who work with young people to apply for funding under the LGBTI+ Youth Fund 2024. A total of up to €400,000 is being made available in grants to applicants to the fund, with the term of the grant running from October 2024 to December 2025.
The fund has been established to support initiatives that make a difference in ensuring LGBTI+ young people are visible, included, treated equally, healthy, and safe in their communities.
The fund supports initiatives related to this goal at community, regional and national level. Initiatives eligible for funding include, but are not limited to:
- Initiatives to enhance the ability of youth work services to meet the needs of LGBTI+ young people, whether in dedicated groups or otherwise, including through training and other resources;
- Initiatives to enhance the services provided by NGO or community organisations to LGBTI+ young persons, such as providing additional outreach capacity or locations;
- Initiatives to promote inclusion of LGBTI+ young people in educational settings, within the workplace, or in wider society;
- Initiatives to support social inclusion and address multiple discrimination for LGBTI+ young people at heightened risk of marginalisation such as Travellers, Roma, migrant communities, people with disabilities, etc.;
- Initiatives to combat the impact of rural isolation on young members of the LGBTI+ community.
Applications are invited from organisations that can demonstrate a track record in working with young people, in particular with LGBTI+ young people, defined for the purposes of this scheme as those aged under 25, and who have proposals for programmes of work that can make a real difference in the lives of LGBTI+ young people.
The fund will be administered by the Youth Affairs Unit of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
A total of €400,000 is being made available by the Department to support impactful projects to support LGBTI+ young people, to be delivered from Q4 2024 through 2025.
The LGBTI+ Youth Fund is open for applications from organisations with a track record in working with young people, in particular with LGBTI+ young people.
Applicant organisations will be assessed to ensure that they meet minimum governance standards to satisfy the Department that they will be in a position to manage a grant award of this size and complexity, including demonstrating management structures, financial discipline and capacity to manage the monitoring and reporting requirements. The Department are looking for applications from organisations that can demonstrate:
- Evidence of a track record in working with young people, in particular with LGBTI+ young people, defined for the purposes of this scheme as those aged under 25;
- Evidence of appropriate governance and financial viability of the applicant organisation;
- Previous experience in delivery of similar /comparable activities;
- Evidence of ability to manage the project appropriately;
- Evidence of capacity to collect, maintain and report monitoring information
Grant amounts of between €20,000 and €75,000 are available to support projects that will make a substantial impact in advancing the objectives of the fund.
It is envisaged that work programmes will commence in Q4 2024 and complete no later than 31 December 2025 with the grant to be paid as detailed in a grant agreement. Funding awarded under the pilot scheme will cover the last 3 months of 2024 and the entirety of 2025.
A full guide to the application process is provided in the Guidance Note below.
Only applications submitted using the template Application Form (attached as an appendix to the Guidance Note) will be considered for funding under this application process.
Applications must be submitted by email to YAUCompliance@equality.gov.ie by 5pm on 16 September 2024.
Each application will be assessed in line with guidelines set out in the Guidance Note.
All communications, including the completed application form, should be sent by email to YAUCompliance@equality.gov.ie . All emails relating to this scheme should include ‘LGBTI+ Youth Fund’ in the subject.