Fund Objective
A fund of €200,000 / £171,000 (sterling figure based on conversion rates at the time) will be available again this year. The 2025 Fund will focus on one overall theme: Supporting and empowering youth interventions across the island of Ireland under the pillars of Inclusion and Inspiration.
The Fund is seeking applications from community-based projects and programmes across Ireland and Northern Ireland that are focused on empowering young people aged 16-25 who are not in employment, education or training, or are at risk of disengagement. In particular, the projects funded will target young people experiencing economic disadvantage under one of the following two pillars:
1. Inclusion: Empowering young people through education and employability
2. Inspiration: Supporting young people to take positive action to create a better society.
The fund will support not-for-profit or charitable organisations working with young people across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland aged between 16-25 years.
Who is eligible to apply for funding?
To be eligible the applying organisation must;
1. Work with young people aged between 16-25 years old.
2. Be a registered not-for-profit or charitable organisation.
3. Have a bank account set up in the name of the organisation.
4. Be registered in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland and active for the past 12months.
5. Have a child protection / safeguarding policy in place.
What funding opportunities are available?
Awards of between €8,000 – €15,000 / £7,000 – £13,000 (sterling figure based on conversion rates at the time) will be available. Organisations applying for funding will be asked to submit a detailed budget breakdown of expenditure for the total funds being requested. The final allocation of awards will be determined after all applications have been reviewed.
How can projects apply for the funding?
All applications will be made online via the Irish Youth Foundation grants platform, which will be linked from the Coca-Cola Ireland website.
The application forms will be live online from Wednesday 26th February at 9am. Closing date is Wednesday 26th March at midnight.
More information and links to application can be found here.