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2023 Community Safety Innovation Fund: Funding call
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Minister for Justice Simon Harris has announced the launch of the Community Safety Innovation Fund (CSIF) funding call 2023.
The open call for Community Safety Innovation Funding will run from Monday 27 March 2023 until 5pm on the Friday 19 May 2023 . €3 million has been made available to support the development of community safety through innovative, local community based initiatives.
The Community Safety Innovation 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 access the funding they need
- encourages the development of innovative ways in which 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
This could include activities intended to:
- tackle crime or reduce the fear of crime; improve community safety and feelings of safety
- support the creation of safe and resilient communities
- reduce reoffending
- divert vulnerable individuals away from engagement in criminal behaviour
Grants will be in the range of €20,000 - €150,000.
Applications will be invited from community safety initiatives as well as groups co-funded with local authorities, NGOs and community organisations working on issues relevant to community safety and youth justice. Applications may be submitted by individual organisations, or by a consortium involving two or more organisations where the lead partner is a community organisation, not-for-profit, social enterprise or similar with a remit relevant to community safety and/or youth justice. Applications with innovative approaches will be afforded particular consideration.
Completed application forms must be returned by 5pm on 19 May 2023 to CommunitySafetyInnovationFund@justice.ie
Supporting documentation, including the Application Form and Guidance Document are available below.
