# Halifax N Ireland grant giving continues

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/03/26/halifax-n-ireland-grant-giving-continues/
- Published: 2020-03-26T17:45:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Halifax Foundation in Northern Ireland says its grant giving functions will
continue despite their offices closing because of the coronavirus outbreak.**

“We will consider applications supporting the community at this time of crisis and
endeavour to get funds out quickly”, the Foundation’s executive director Brenda 
McMullan said.

Ms McMullan said the Foundation understood that coronavirus will present a number
of challenges to the charities which they support throughout Northern Ireland over
the coming weeks and months and that charities will be an even more crucial support
mechanism than ever in these unprecedented times in providing both practical and
emotional support and tackling isolation.

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Referring to existing grant holders, the Foundation said they wanted to ensure that
they can support organisations in any way that they can which will include flexibility
around funding and reporting.

The [Halifax Foundation NI](http://www.halifaxfoundationni.org) say they will be
reasonable if grant holders need to request budget changes to ensure their projects
can continue and they will consider any project extension requests sympathetically.
Moreover, if charities think they will struggle to meet end of project evaluation
deadline they can get in touch to request an extension.

Ms McMullan said their offices are now operating remotely but if charities need 
to get in touch they can email at [ad***@*****************ni.org](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/03/26/halifax-n-ireland-grant-giving-continues/ad***@*****************ni.org)
and they will endeavour to answer all queries and requests as quickly as possible.
Both our small and medium grant programmes are open for applications.

Earlier this month the Foundation announced that they had awarded £133,571. During
2018, the Foundation provided 568 grants across all grant programmes totalling £
1,238,340 while the average grant awarded was £3,571.

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