Tánaiste announces new round of funding for cross-border projects
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- An t-eolas is déanaí: 23 Bealtaine 2025
The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Harris today announced the opening of the 2025 round of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Shared Island Civic Society Fund.
The new phase of the Shared Island Civic Society Fund is a €6 million three-year initiative, promoting practical North-South cooperation and engagement, primarily between grassroots community organisations across a range of sectors and themes, consistent with the objectives and commitments of the Good Friday Agreement.
The 2025 round will allocate up to €2 million, and applications will be accepted from Monday, 26 May 2025, to Friday, 27 June.
"I am delighted to announce the opening of the 2025 round of the Shared Island Civic Society Fund. This round is the first of the new three-year phase that takes us to 2027. Organisations across this island are demonstrating the benefits of increased partnership, and I am pleased that the Shared Island Initiative can support this important work.
“With an average grant of just under €30,000, these grants can be transformative for smaller grass-roots organisations, working in their local communities.
“I hope the Shared Island Civic Society Fund will encourage organisations to focus on cross-border connections, developing new and interesting collaborations, and strengthening existing partnerships.”
Funding was awarded to 107 projects in 2023 and 2024 through this Fund, across a broad range of sectors and themes, including in the areas of climate/environment, community development, heritage, social enterprise, charity/voluntary, and sports. Each of these projects has a strong North-South dimension and will facilitate the development of new cross-border links, the strengthening of existing relationships, or the broadening of North-South connectivity on issues of common concern for civic society groups on both sides of the border.