Community Safety Fund 2024

The Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has opened the funding call for the Community Safety Fund 2024. This fund has been developed to reinvest the value of proceeds of crime seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau directly back into communities via projects that support and improve community safety.

The Community Safety Fund

• allows proceeds of crime to be directed into community projects to support community safety;

• encourages the development of projects aimed at improving community safety from the people who best understand local community safety needs;

• allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed;

• reflects and highlights the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds from criminal activity.

This could include activities intended to:

• tackle crime or reduce the fear of crime; improve community safety and feelings of safety;

• support the creation of safe and resilient communities;

• reduce reoffending;

• divert vulnerable individuals away from engagement in criminal behaviour.

This year, projects which have already received funding under a previous round of the Community Safety Fund may apply for repeat funding, once strong outputs to date are demonstrated as part of the application process.

Deadline: 5pm on 26 July 2024

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