# N Ireland foundation made grants worth £1 million in 2017

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/06/13/n-ireland-foundation-made-grants-worth-1-million-in-2017/
- Published: 2019-06-13T10:40:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Ulster Garden Villages (UGV), one of Northern Ireland’s largest charitable foundations,
gave out grants worth £1 million in 2017, just over £200,000 down from the year 
before.**

As well as its in year grant giving UGV has future grant commitments over the next
three years of £3 million to charitable projects. UGV reports that the number of
applications to the foundation was roughly similar to the year before.

UGV also provides loans to charities, mainly interest free, which amounted to over
£1 million in 2017.

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58 grants were allocated in 2017 in the fields of disability, health, community,
scientific and medical research, culture and heritage and education and training.
The trust states that it favours projects which will leverage other sources of funding.

In 2016 health grants accounted for nearly 50% of UGV’s giving but in 2017 nearly
half of grants by value (£465,000) when to cultural and heritage projects. The largest
capital grant in the cultural and heritage category, £150,000, was given to Studio
Theatre in Bangor, Co Down, while the Ulster Orchestra received 175,000 as part 
of a four year annual commitment. The orchestra support is for community outreach.

While health received a smaller allocation  in 2017 at £163,000 UGV says that it
is still an important priority. One of largest health commitments is a three year
grant to Marie Curie’s Rapid Response Nursing Support Service.

Under the disability category, Action Mental Health received the second tranche 
of £20,000 while Arthritis Care and the Brain Injury Trust completed multi-year 
grants. UGV has a long history of supporting medical research and provided £44,000
as part of a multi-year grant to the Ulster University for heart research.

[Ulster Garden Village](http://www.ulstergardenvillages.co.uk)‘s main source of 
income is rental income from property investment and in 2017 it reported a big increase
in surplus, from £1.2 million to £5.2 million.

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