Grants worth £3.7 million awarded by International Fund for Ireland
Howard Lake | 16 November 2011 | News
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 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.
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