{"id":798144,"date":"2026-03-02T02:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/798144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:35:18","slug":"1m-grant-scheme-to-boost-voluntary-and-community-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/798144\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a31m grant scheme to boost voluntary and community groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a31 million grant scheme for voluntary sector and community organisations has been announced by the Government.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) said the Community Partnership Fund will \u201charness voluntary sector expertise to support local community organisations\u201d, including those operating informally or in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will be awarded to a forum of organisations that will then work with other local community groups to help develop ideas and skills to access funding opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>NIO parliamentary under-secretary of state Matthew Patrick said: \u201cCommunity and voluntary organisations improve the quality of life for people across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud that the Northern Ireland Office\u2019s Community Partnership Fund will ensure more organisations undertaking vital work have the skills, knowledge and networks to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initiative builds on the success of the NIO\u2019s Connect Fund, which has so far awarded 21 organisations almost \u00a3500,000, and is supporting a diverse range of projects across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve witnessed firsthand how this is supporting local groups to thrive, and I encourage Northern Ireland organisations to come together and apply to administer the new Community Partnership Fund, to empower other deserving community groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u00a31 million grant scheme for voluntary sector and community organisations has been announced by the Government. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5011],"tags":[231612,143850,1144,231613,16,15],"class_list":["post-798144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-northern-ireland","tag-matthew-patrick","tag-nio","tag-northern-ireland","tag-northern-ireland-office","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116157253115470788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}