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Community Safety Fund
- Published on: 30 October 2025
- Last updated on: 30 October 2025
About the Community Safety Fund
The Community Safety Fund is an annual grant fund which allows for the proceeds of crime, seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and An Garda Síochána, to be directed back into communities, in order to fund innovative local projects aimed at building stronger, safer communities.
Initially called the Community Safety Innovation Fund and launched in 2022 it has supported 127 community safety projects to date all across Ireland.
The fund is managed by the National Office for Community Safety.
All queries in relation to the Community Safety Fund should be directed to communitysafetyfund@justice.ie.
The Community Safety Fund:
- Allows proceeds of crime to be directed into community projects to support community safety
- Ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will receive the funding they require
- Encourages the development proposals to improve community safety from those people who best understand local community safety needs
- Allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
- Reflects and highlights the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds from criminal activity
Community Safety Fund 2025 Allocations
| Applicant | Project | Location | Grant | |
| 1 | South East Technological University (SETU), Carlow County Council (CCC) | Bystander Intervention Training Programme Project | Carlow | €142,500 |
| 2 | Killaloe/Ballina Community & Family Resource Centre | Non-Violent Resistant Programme "Power without Violence" | Clare, Tipperary | €45,300 |
| 3 | Ballyhoura Development CLG with support from Cork County Council Housing Department and Respond (Social Housing body) | Social Safety Approach | Cork | €142,500 |
| 4 | Cork City Council | Cork After Dark- Enhancing Community in Cork City Centre. | Cork | €120,045 |
| 5 | East Cork Traveller Project (Cumann Na Daoine) | Traveller Youth Liaison Worker | Cork | €95,660 |
| 6 | Greencastle Community Development CLG | "Our Voice, Our Vision: If Walls Could Talk" | Donegal | €20,000 |
| 7 | Dublin Rape Crisis Centre | Improving Community Safety in relation to Sexual Violence | Dublin | €149,547 |
| 8 | Canal Communities Regional Addiction Service CLG (CCRAS CLG) | Canal Communities Group Violence Intervention and Restorative Programme | Dublin | €142,500 |
| 9 | YMCA Dublin | YMCA Dublin’s Community Wellbeing and Safety Initiative |
Dublin | €142,500 |
| 10 | Restorative Justice Services | Restorative and Community Justice Pilot | Dublin | €142,470 |
| 11 | Inner City Organisations Network (ICON) | Safer Communities Initiative | Dublin | €125,092 |
| 12 | Childhood Development Initiative | Restorative Futures | Dublin | €90,000 |
| 13 | Dublin South City Partnership CLG (DSCP) | Make it with my Mentor and Fast Track Academy | Dublin | €62,800 |
| 14 | Citywise Education | Citywise Engage | Dublin | €60,000 |
| 15 | Cabra For Youth CLG | RISE – Respect, Identity, Strength, Empowerment thought a peer leadership model | Dublin | €52,600 |
| 16 | Irish Red Cross Society (IRCS) | Community Based Health and Leadership Programme (CBHL) | Dublin, Cork, Galway, Donegal, Kildare | €115,744 |
| 17 | Immigrant Council of Ireland | REAL TALK | Dublin, Waterford, Laois | €142,500 |
| 18 | Saoirse Domestic Violence Services (Saoirse DVS Housing Association) | The INSPIRE Family Project | Dublin, Wicklow | €107,000 |
| 19 | Regional Recovery Supports – Western Regional Drug and Alcohol Taskforce | Recovery Hub (Galway City) + establish Inclusive Recovery City Project in Galway city | Galway | €97,400 |
| 20 | SCCUL Enterprises CLG (as a member of Ballybane Taskforce) | Canvas of Change | Galway | €20,700 |
| 21 | New Wave Adventure Therapy Wild Project CLG | Call of the Wild | Kerry | €92,260 |
| 22 | Moyross Community Enterprise Centre CLG | Moyross Summer Youth Employment & Leadership Programme 2025-2026 | Limerick | €150,000 |
| 23 | Our Lady of Lourdes Community Service Group | The Beston Model: Community Health, Wellbeing and Fitness Coach | Limerick | €135,877 |
| 24 | Engage in Education | The Compass Programme | Limerick | €133,000 |
| 25 | Dance Limerick Hub CLG | Square Roots | Limerick | €102,545 |
| 26 | Doras Luimni CLG | Pathways to Progress for Young Migrants | Limerick | €101,135 |
| 27 | Extern Ireland (in partnership with Blue Box Creative) Learning Centre, Limerick) | Healing Through Art: Reducing Youth Offending Through Creative Therapies | Limerick | €31,787 |
| 28 | Lus na Gréine Family Resource Centre Clg. | "Choices for Life" – Youth Drug Awareness & Resilience Programme” | Longford | €50,000 |
| 29 | Connect Family Resource Centre | Ár Áit (Our Place) | Louth | €109,388 |
| 30 | Drogheda Women & Children’s Refuge Centre | Wings of Change (Working Title with the young people) | Louth, Meath | €143,000 |
| 31 | Safe Ireland National Social Change Agency CLG & An Garda Síochána | Safe Ireland Safe & Together Project Mayo | Mayo | €97,062 |
| 32 | Tipperary County Council / Youth Work Ireland Tipperary | Cashel Traveller Education Initiative | Tipperary | €137,750 |
| 33 | Waterford Local Community Safety Partnership (WLCSP) | Waterford Traveller Community Safety Educational Project | Waterford | €132,183 |
| 34 | Simon Community (Midlands) CLG t/a Midlands Simon Community. | Reconnect: Midlands Reintegration and Community Safety Pilot | Westmeath, Laois, Longford, Offaly | €142,500 |
| 35 | Enniscorthy Community Alliance | Empowering Voices for Safer Communities | Wexford | €142,408 |
| 36 | Bray Community Addiction Team CLG (BCAT) | Addiction Recovery A Prison Pre- and Aftercare Programme Strengthening Community Safety and Social Reintegration | Wicklow | €58,916 |
| 37 | Cumann Peile Na hEireann (Football Association of Ireland) | A Game of two Halves | Nationwide | €142,500 |
| 38 | Brothers of Charity Services Ireland (BOCSI) (Lead Applicant). In collaboration with Dr Charles O’Mahony, School of Law, University of Galway. | PEER – People Educating for Empowerment and Rights: A peer-led programme by people with intellectual disabilities, promoting community safety, inclusion, and justice. | Nationwide | €142,500 |
| 39 | Muintir Na Tíre | Community Safety Toolkit | Nationwide | €142,424 |
| 40 | MOVE Ireland- Men overcoming Violence | Gateway assessment programme (GAP) |
Nationwide | €141,973 |
| 41 | PsyCare Ireland: Welfare and Harm Reduction CLG | PsyCare Ireland NITE Programme: Nightlife Intervention & Training for Empowerment | Nationwide | €81,100 |
| 42 | Outcomers LGBT+ Support Service |
App Happy Plus (Discussing online dating safety with gay and bisexual men) | Nationwide | €36,800 |
Community Safety Fund Previous Allocations
