The Ireland Funds Video Highlights
Learn More About The Ireland Funds Impact Across the Island of Ireland
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A selection of projects supported by your generosity.
Citywise Education
With help from The Ireland Funds, Citywise Education provides young people with after-school and out-of-school educational support.
Holywell Trust
The Holywell Trust Future Leaders Programme brings together local people to build leadership skills that serve diverse communities. With help from The Ireland Funds, Holywell Trust is bringing social transformation to Northern Ireland.
Learning Hub Limerick
Learning Hub Limerick uses education as a tool to empower young people so that they can reach their true potential.
Liquid Therapy
The Ireland Funds is helping Liquid Therapy provide the therapeutic benefits of the surf and ocean to young people facing physical and intellectual challenges.
Lús na Gréine Family Resource Centre
Approximately 100,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland. The Ireland Funds is supporting their arrival with education, integration, accommodation and mental health services. Lús na Gréine Family Resource Centre is a resource which serves a rural area of social disadvantage and is assisting the refugee community.
Making Connections
The Ireland Funds is helping Making Connections alleviate loneliness and isolation through supports that empower older people to stay healthy and socially connected.
PeacePlayers
PeacePlayers Northern Ireland uses the neutral sport of basketball to build mutual understanding between the historically divided communities of Northern Ireland. With support from The Ireland Funds, thousands of young people have now come through their program.
Politics in Action
Politics in Action empowers young people to take action on the issues that matter to them, supporting them to take these issues to those in power, in order to achieve social change.
Roscommon Women’s Network
Roscommon Women’s Network is dedicated to supporting women and families. Thanks in part to The Ireland Funds, it is able to engage the most marginalized and hard to reach women in this rural area of Ireland.
St. Peter’s Immaculata Youth Centre & Holy Trinity Youth Centre
Youth clubs like St Peter’s Immaculata Youth Centre and Holy Trinity Youth Centre offer young people a safe, educational and cross-community space to grow in the face of difficult environments in Belfast. Massive budget cuts have threatened the services of these safe havens. However, thanks in part to support from The Ireland Funds Heart of the Community Fund, their work continues.
25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement
Key to the creation of The Ireland Funds was a desire for positive change in Northern Ireland. As we commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, we salute those visionaries, past and present, who work to create a bright future for the people of Northern Ireland.
George Moore Scholars 2023
In February 2020, The Ireland Funds launched the George Moore Scholars programme. This ambitious, all-island programme supports talented students to pursue their higher education dream and undertake postgraduate study in the US, Canada, Europe and the UK. The scholarships are awarded to students in all academic disciplines who have an ambition to make a positive impact in their field of study, examine and tackle our great global challenges, and make a significant difference to wider society.
Helium Arts, Midland Science, Native Woodland Trust, Wave Trauma Centre
No Mind Left Behind
All across the island of Ireland there are promising young people from areas of disadvantage who need an opportunity to enter third-level education. No Mind Left Behind is an initiative developed by The Ireland Funds to give promising young people an opportunity to complete their third-level education
Daisyhouse
Belvedere Youth Club
George Moore Scholars
In February 2020, The Ireland Funds launched the George Moore Scholars program, an ambitious all-Ireland scholarship program that offers extraordinary supports to academically talented students who wish to undertake a master’s degree in the US, Canada, UK, Australia or New Zealand, to realize their full career potential. The high-value scholarships will cover the cost of higher education fees, research, travel, visas, health insurance and other living costs associated with pursuing postgraduate education abroad. By 2025, it is expected that the number of George Moore Scholars will grow to 50 per annum, supported from a fund of €2 million ($2.36m) annually.
ALONE supports older people who are socially isolated, homeless, living in poverty or crisis so that they can age at home. Funding from The Ireland Funds is helping ALONE meet the cost of training volunteers to ensure that the 1,100 daily calls to its hotline from older people who need care and support can be answered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Every week across the island of Ireland, 10 children are diagnosed with cancer. Flagship funding from The Ireland Funds is helping Cancer Fund for Children support children and their families so that they don’t have to face cancer alone.
Learning Hub Limerick uses education as a tool to empower young people so that they can reach their true potential. Support from The Ireland Funds is helping them pivot to deliver their educational programmes to hundreds of families in a safe, child-friendly online environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Support for Safe Ireland is providing for the immediate and basic needs of over 300 women and children experiencing domestic violence to help keep them safe in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
Support for Tech2Students is providing computers and software to students who don’t have access to technology at home to ensure that they can continue their education during the COVID-19 lockdown.
These are challenging times, but we are facing those challenges, together. The thousands of organizations we support touch the lives of real people, increase opportunities, and improve society every day. The Ireland Funds continues to come alongside communities and organizations across the island of Ireland with funding for immediate and long-term needs in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.
174 Trust in Belfast has pivoted its cross-community services and is now serving as a food-hub to the local neighborhood. Support from The Ireland Funds is now ensuring that 174 Trust can safely deliver meals each week to hundreds of vulnerable people in the community.
Barnardos is currently working with over 2,700 families affected by domestic abuse, mental health challenges, addiction and homelessness. Support from The Ireland Funds is helping deliver crisis services, safety planning for those faced with domestic abuse, food parcels, diapers and other essential items.
Support for The Early Learning Initiative (ELI) of the National College of Ireland is providing remote home visits, activity packs and materials to hundreds of educationally-disadvantaged children and their families to create a positive home learning environment during the COVID-19 crisis.
Food distribution in Ireland is facing unprecedented challenges. Support from The Ireland Funds for FoodCloud is helping continue the delivery of food to 500+ charity partners across the country.
Learn More About The Ireland Funds Heart of The Community Fund
The Ireland Funds Heart of the Community Fund will provide critical and timely funding to a wide range of not-for-profit organizations across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. more info
Learn More About The Ireland Funds COVID-19 Response Fund
As the world faces the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Ireland Funds is coming alongside the organizations we support with aid for immediate and long-term needs with our COVID-19 Response Fund. 100% of every gift goes directly to outstanding organizations serving the greatest needs across the island of Ireland. The Ireland Funds’ expertise and insight into the nonprofit sector ensures that all gifts are used where the need is the greatest. more info
