# Age Concern gets £1 million grant

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/01/02/age-concern-gets-1-million-grant/
- Published: 2008-01-02T20:35:58+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Age Concern in Northern Ireland has received a grant of nearly £1 million from the
Atlantic Philanthropies for a modernisation programme. Atlantic has made the grant
under its Ageing programme.

The £990,000 award is to foster greater efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability
in the voluntary and community sector advocating for and serving the needs of older
people in Northern Ireland. This is to be achieved through increased collaboration
and capacity building and by helping it to align itself with the changes in local
government and in the administration and delivery of health and social services.

The grant is spread over three years. As well as Ageing, Atlantic provides grants
under the categories of Disadvantaged Children and Youth, Population Health and 
Reconciliation and Human Rights. Between 1982 and 2005 Atlantic made grants worth
$941 million in Ireland and $130 million in Great Britain.

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