Closing Date: Monday 18th  May

The Community Safety Fund (CSF) supports the work of the Community Safety Partnerships and other policy initiatives of the Department of Justice in the areas of Community Safety and Youth Justice.  The Department of Justice is providing funding of €4 million in 2025.

The Community Safety Fund:

• Allows proceeds of crime to be directed into projects to support and enhance community safety
• Ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will access the funding they need
• Allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
• Benefits from the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds of criminal activity

Projects that previously benefited from the fund included initiatives that:

• 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.

Size of Grants
Grants will be in the range of €20,000 – €150,000. Smaller or larger grants may be considered on merit on an exceptional basis.

Call for Applications

Applications are invited from community safety initiatives as well as groups co-funded with local authorities, NGOs and community organisations working on issues relevant to community safety and youth justice.

Applications may be submitted by individual organisations, or by a consortium involving two or more organisations where the lead partner is a community organisation, not-for-profit, social enterprise or similar with a remit relevant to community safety and/or youth justice.

Applications with innovative approaches will be afforded particular consideration.

Click HERE to find out more and apply