Managing Community Benefit Funds
Building on 25 years of experience in the administration of funding and working with communities to enable them to access investment funds, SECAD began administering Community Benefit Funds on behalf of semi state and corporate bodies in 2015, as a Grant Making Organisation (GMO).
Some of these bodies include ESB, Coillte, NTR, Oriel, EirGrid and RWE. SECAD provides its GMO service for a growing number of Community Benefit Funds across Ireland.
Managing Community Benefit Funds Case Studies
Quigley’s Point Community Playgroup is the only child care service in the local area. It delivers a play-based curriculum and provides a safe, challenging and stimulating environment where children feel valued, grow and gain in confidence, self-esteem and independence.
Drumkeeran Tidy Towns group was founded in 1970. In each successive year of the competition, the group built on its record of success and achieved extra points in the competition. Building on this momentum, 2017 marked the group’s entry into its 46th Tidy Towns event.