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22/11/2006
Lottery cash boost for NI communities
A multi-million pound programme is being launched today by the Big Lottery Fund to help communities across Northern Ireland stay safe and well.
The largest of the National Lottery Good Cause Distributors is making £18 million available under the Safe and Well programme to help people of all ages across Northern Ireland to work together to promote well-being and tackle health and safety issues.
The Big Lottery Fund is holding a major event in Armagh today and has invited organisations that could potentially work together to deliver projects under the programme.
Grants of up to £1 million will be made available to partnerships to develop projects that offer families and communities a chance live in healthier and safer communities.
Safe and Well could fund a wide range of innovative projects including good neighbourhood schemes to support older people in the community, health promotion courses for people with disabilities, outreach work with vulnerable young people and the creation of community gardens.
The programme also hopes to support projects that increase opportunities for volunteering, provide support for families, promote mental health and well-being and improve people’s skills to make healthier lifestyle choices.
Walter Rader, the Big Lottery Fund’s NI Director said: “The Big Lottery Fund is inviting key stakeholders to today’s event that we would envisage working in partnership to deliver strategic projects under Safe and Well.
“I hope that the organisations will use today’s event as an opportunity to explore which other bodies they can partner with to deliver projects that will make a real difference to Northern Ireland communities.
“Safe and Well will offer these partnerships the chance to develop innovative projects that will boost the health of Northern Ireland’s most disadvantaged communities by providing opportunities for people of all ages to work together to develop preventative projects that will create healthier and safer communities. I am looking forward to seeing a wide range of innovative and imaginative projects being funded under this programme.”
The Safe and Well programme will have a two-stage process and Lottery cash will be made available to allow partnerships to develop their strategic applications for funding of up to five years.
The deadline for the first stage of applications is July 31, 2007.
(EF)
The largest of the National Lottery Good Cause Distributors is making £18 million available under the Safe and Well programme to help people of all ages across Northern Ireland to work together to promote well-being and tackle health and safety issues.
The Big Lottery Fund is holding a major event in Armagh today and has invited organisations that could potentially work together to deliver projects under the programme.
Grants of up to £1 million will be made available to partnerships to develop projects that offer families and communities a chance live in healthier and safer communities.
Safe and Well could fund a wide range of innovative projects including good neighbourhood schemes to support older people in the community, health promotion courses for people with disabilities, outreach work with vulnerable young people and the creation of community gardens.
The programme also hopes to support projects that increase opportunities for volunteering, provide support for families, promote mental health and well-being and improve people’s skills to make healthier lifestyle choices.
Walter Rader, the Big Lottery Fund’s NI Director said: “The Big Lottery Fund is inviting key stakeholders to today’s event that we would envisage working in partnership to deliver strategic projects under Safe and Well.
“I hope that the organisations will use today’s event as an opportunity to explore which other bodies they can partner with to deliver projects that will make a real difference to Northern Ireland communities.
“Safe and Well will offer these partnerships the chance to develop innovative projects that will boost the health of Northern Ireland’s most disadvantaged communities by providing opportunities for people of all ages to work together to develop preventative projects that will create healthier and safer communities. I am looking forward to seeing a wide range of innovative and imaginative projects being funded under this programme.”
The Safe and Well programme will have a two-stage process and Lottery cash will be made available to allow partnerships to develop their strategic applications for funding of up to five years.
The deadline for the first stage of applications is July 31, 2007.
(EF)
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