Small Grants for Volunteering Programme
Small Grants for Volunteering Programme –
The Small Grants for Volunteers Programme is a government funded grant programme designed to encourage and support volunteering by funding a wide range of volunteer-involving projects within voluntary and community groups. It is targeted specifically at projects that promote volunteering amongst people not in paid work and other groups who are currently under-represented in the volunteering population. The Programme makes small grants (of up to £1,100) available to small, locally based volunteer-involving organisations incorporating the above ethos.
The Programme is funded by the Voluntary & Community Unit, part of the Department for Social Development. The scheme is administered by the Volunteer Development Agency but the Small Grants Programme is managed locally by Northern Ireland’s 15 volunteer centres.
Applications for this year have now closed. The next round of available funding is anticipated to be February 2010.
Organisations which successfully secured Small Grants in Belfast and Castlereagh 2009/2010
| Glen Colin Resident's Association |
| Greater Andersonstown Safer Neighbourhood Project |
| Loughside Football Club |
| Midland Senior Citizens Club |
| St John Vianney Youth Centre |
| The Trossachs Area Resident's Association |
| Victims & Survivors Trust (VAST) |
| Whitecity Community Development Association |
| Women's Common Path Network |
| Short Strand Community Centre |
| Mother's Hope Crisis Centre |
| Lower Andersonstown Mother's Support Group |
| Chinese Language School |
| Age Concern East Belfast & Castlereagh |
| Bruised Fruit |
| Clarawood Community Association |
| Docksiders Senior Men's Group |
| East Belfast Healthy Living Network |
| Gort Na Mona Historical Society |
| Holy Family Youth Centre |
| John Paul II Youth Club |
| Midland Whitecity Amateur Boxing Club |
| North Belfast Community Development |
| NI Youth Forum - Not Eligible |
| Shared History Interpretive Project (SHIP) |
| Stranmillis 50+ Group |
| The Turning Point |
| Tools for Solidarity |
| Trans Urban Arts |
| Ardoyne Women's Group |
| Caring Canines |
| Dockers Amateur Boxing Club |
| North Belfast Women's Initiative & Support Group |
| Greater Shankill Bereaved Families Support Group |
| Bright Lights |
| Salisbury Special Olympics Club |
| Friends of Fruithill |
| Oak Partnership |
| Arts Ekta "Belfast Mela" |
| Latinoamerica Unida |
| Ligoniel Boxing Club |
| Ligoniel Improvement Association |
| Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA) |
| Parents Advice Centre - Not Eligilble |
| Times of Refreshing Ministries |
| Whiterock/Westrock Resident's Association |
| Living Life Matters |
| North Belfast Explorers |
| Willowstone Festival |
| South Belfast Malecare |
| Lower Shankill Community Association |
| Shore Crescent Friendship Club |
| Beyond Skin |
| Rivers Community Project |
| Island Street Belfast City Mission |
| Walkway Community Association |
| Sailortown Arts & Crafts |
| Harbour Lights Senior Women's Group |
| Camara |
| National Organisation Circumcision Resource Centre |
| NI Pakistani Cultural Association |
| N.I. Muslim Families Association |
| Catalyst Arts Gallery |
| Friends of the Waterworks Committee |
| New Lodge Arts |
| Sandy Row Resident's Association |
| North Belfast History Project |
| Queerspace |
| St Peter's Immaculata Youth Club |
| Black Mountain Zen Centre |
| Cara-Friend |
| Gay & Lesbian Youth N.I. (GLYNI) |
| Market's Development Association |
| Sailortown Regeneration Group |
| Sailortown Cultural & Historical Society |
| Educational Shakespeare Company |
| The Welcome Trust |
| Twin Spires Community Group |
| Ocean Youth Trust Ireland - Volunteer Committee |
| St Kevin's Senior Citizens |
| Volunteering Rocks |
| East Belfast Alternatives (Street by Street) |
| Basement Youth Club |
| 6th Belfast Scout Club |
| Wednesday Club |
| West Belfast Senior Citizens Forum |
| SPES Community Counselling |
| Greater Shankill Senior Citizens Forum |
| Indian Senior Citizens Club |
Organisations which successfully secured Small Grants in Fermanagh 2009/2010
| Age Concern Irvinestown |
| Women in Agriculture |
| Boho Women's Group |
| Tamlaght Women's Institute |
| Women of the World |
| Fermanagh Underage Entertainment Life (FUEL) |
| Drumgallon Area Community Association |
| Cancer Connect |
| Shopmobility Enniskillen |
| The Little Castle Playgroup |
| Irvinestown Cross Community Playgroup |
| Newtownbutler Playgroup Ltd. |
| Donagh Weefolk Playschool |
| Roslea Cross Community Playgroup |
Organisations which successfully secured Small Grants in North Down and Ards 2009/2010
| Bangor & North Down Samaritians |
| Bangor Abbey Players |
| Movilla Abbey Coffee House & Senior Citizens Luncheon Club |
| Oi Yin Women's Group |
| Redburn Loughview Community Forum |
| The Recon Group |
| Comber Youth for Christ |
| Bangor Drama Club |
| North Down & Ards Council of Trade Unions |
| The Square Centre |
| Conlig Village Community Association |
| Growing Connections NI |
| Fibromyalgia Support North Down & Ards |
