Debate contribution: Good Relations: Funding
Debate contribution by Mrs Pam Cameron on .
- MLA
- Mrs Pam Cameron
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 31 March 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Good Relations: Funding
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4871743
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The groups that are delivering under the central good relations fund and the Community Relations Council core funding programme undertake vital work in our communities, bringing people together, promoting good relations and contributing to the Programme for Government’s cross-cutting commitment to peace. For 2025-26, the central good relations programme received 220 applications from groups requesting total funding of £7·1 million.
The assessment process will complete in early April 2025, and groups will be notified of the outcome of their applications before Easter.
A total of 42 applications were submitted to the Community Relations Council's core funding programme for 2025-26, requesting £2·75 million against an available budget of just £631,000. Applicants have now been informed of the outcomes, and successful applicants have been either awarded funding or placed on a waiting list, should further funding become available throughout the year.
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