Grants & Funding

Kilkenny County Council’s Climate Action Office have developed a new guide to support local climate action whilst helping communities and households to reduce energy, waste and water use, protect nature and save on energy bills.

The guide provides information on 31 sources of funding available to communities and households for projects such as making homes warmer; creating new community facilities such as cycleways and community gardens; energy upgrades to community buildings; protecting monuments from climate change and creating rain gardens to capture excessive rainfall.

The SE Systems Community Fund 2025 is here and they have €500,000 available for sustainable energy upgrades in community buildings across Ireland.

This initiative offers €500,000 in funding to support not-for-profit organisations across Ireland in delivering sustainable energy improvements to their community buildings.

The fund is designed to help reduce operational costs, cut energy bills, lower carbon emissions, and improve energy resilience for local services that are often under financial pressure.

Applications open on 27th of May until 18th July 2025, and eligible upgrades include insulation, heat pumps, solar panels, lighting improvements and more.

The Irish Hospice Foundation are offering a small number of scholarships up to the value of €3,000 each to make education in end-of-life and bereavement care accessible to multiple disciplines (nursing, medicine, allied health professionals and others). Two scholarships will be reserved for those working in palliative care.

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s 2025-26 Human Rights and Equality Grants Scheme is now open and accepting applications. The purpose of the grants scheme is to support projects by civil society and trade unions that promote human rights and equality.  A total of €350,000 is available for projects.

The Grants Scheme is open to civil society organisations working to promote human rights and equality and trade unions in Ireland. Civil society organisations include: local and national community and voluntary organisations, non-governmental organisations, rights-holder-led groups, groups representing area based communities or communities of interest protected under the nine grounds of the Equality legislation, well as groups experiencing poverty, socio-economic discrimination or exclusion, including international protection applicants and migrant communities.

To be eligible, civil society organisations must be not-for-profit and registered with the Company Registration Office (CRO) and/or as a Charity.

CLOSING DATE: 4th June 2025

The fund will support projects that seek to strengthen resilience in young people and help them manage anxiety, with the emphasis on early intervention and prevention. Projects may work directly with young people or with the adults that surround them.

CLOSING DATE: 11th June 2025

The special Children & Young People Draw opens for nominations from Monday, 16th June, running for just seven days until Sunday, 22nd June 2025.

This special draw is dedicated to supporting charities in Ireland and the UK whose core purpose is the support of Children & Young People. With 10 awards of €5,000 each up for grabs, the more nominations a charity receives, the greater its chances of winning.

The AIB Community €1 Million Fund enables customers, the public and their employees to support the local charities that matter most to them, within their region. The Fund supports charities across six regions in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

AIB will once again allocate €700,000 to charities chosen by its customers and the community, while €300,000 will be donated to charities chosen by employees.

St. Canice’s Credit Union is excited to announce that they have a fund of €150,000 available to support qualifying community groups and organisations in their common bond area. This funding is open to organisations in the areas surrounding our branches in High St. Kilkenny, Bagenalstown, Callan, Piltown, Graiguenamanagh, Ballyragget, Durrow, Mountrath, and Rathdowney.

If you have any questions you can contact them by email

Is your community group looking to lower energy costs and reduce carbon emissions? The SE Systems Community Fund Summer Call is here to help! They support non-profits, charities, and voluntary organisations in delivering impactful energy efficiency and renewable energy projects that create long-term benefits for communities across Ireland.

CLOSING DATE: 18th July 2025

This grants scheme is for community groups to apply for small scale initiatives and events outside of LAWPRO’s targeted open calls. It covers events such as World Wetland Day, Biodiversity Week, Science Week, etc. It may also be used for small awareness raising initiatives such as surveys and plans, citizen science, hosting a meeting, workshops, litter pick, publications, biodiversity signage, or other such small scale initiatives. Applications must have a water quality or water awareness focus.