# Grants worth £3.7 million awarded by International Fund for Ireland

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/11/16/grants-worth-3-7-million-awarded-by-international-fund-for-ireland/
- Published: 2011-11-16T08:44:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The International Fund for Ireland has made grants worth £3.7 million to social
and reconciliation projects on both sides of the border.**

The International Fund for Ireland’s (IFI) biggest grant, £1 million, went towards
the cost of establishing a new Chair of Peace Studies, currently being proposed 
by the University of Ulster and to be located at the Magee Campus in Derry.

The [International Fund for Ireland](http://www.internationalfundforireland.com)
is an independent international organisation established by the Irish and British
Governments in 1986. The Fund’s main objectives are to promote economic and social
advance and encourage contact, dialogue and reconciliation between Unionists and
Nationalists throughout Ireland.

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Other grants awarded by the IFI include:

 * £1.25 million to the Fund’s Community Based Economic and Social Regeneration 
   Programme that will help to bring about lasting community development and positive
   change.
 * £510,326 to the Community Bridges Programme to extend its reconciliation work.
 * £109,930 to the YMCA in Derry and Donegal
 * £1,903,845 allocated to the Leaving a Legacy Programme. This includes £903,845
   for the Open Hands Centre, Belfast by providing capital funding towards the building
   of a shared centre at the Peace Wall in Northumberland Street, Belfast. The Chair
   of Peace Studies was also funded under this programme.