New funding availablefor Meath groups working with older people

Meath Groups working with and supporting older people are being invited to apply for support to advance their Active Citizenship and Advocacy work.

The Community Foundation for Ireland is offering support to initiatives which ‘give greater voice’.

Grants are being made available under the Older Persons Fund at the Foundation which over the past seven years has provided over €1.5 Million to groups and organisations.

Applications are now being sought for grants of up to €7,500 under two strands.

The first strand, Active Citizenship offers support to community based and national activities that promote older people as active citizens and build older people’s capacity and potential to take on roles in their community.

The second strand, Advocacy offers support to projects that empower older people to become advocates on issues that affect them. Applications can be to support advocacy by older persons’ for older persons, training to influence policy, developing community decision-making processes, building leadership or negotiation skills and other innovative projects.

Announcing the opening of applications, Denise Charlton, Chief Executive of The Community Foundation for Ireland said:

“During Covid-19 our donors funded research which showed that members of the older generation in Meath felt ‘cancelled’ during the pandemic. Side-lining people because of age must never happen again. This year our Older Persons Fund is firmly focussed on preventing a repeat by working to strengthen voices, so that everyone can have their say and everyone is heard.

Such work ties in with the mission of our donors of Equality for All in Thriving Communities and the empowering of generations to achieve it.”

Application details are on www.communityfoundation.ie. The closing date is on 5th August 2022.