Community Safety Fund 2026 Launched

This year’s nationwide application call for the Community Safety Fund (CSF) opened today.

The annual fund allows for the proceeds of crime, seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and An Garda Síochána, to be redirected into local projects that support and enhance community safety.

This year’s fund totalling €4.75 million is a significant increase since the initial allocation of €2 million in 2022.

The Community Safety Fund:

• Allows proceeds of crime to be directed into projects to support and enhance community safety
• Ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will access the funding they need
• Allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
• Benefits from the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds of criminal activity

Projects that previously benefited from the fund included initiatives that:

• 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.

Since the Fund launched in 2022, a total of 127 projects have received funding nationally.

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