The Rural Action Awards for 2024/2025 are CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS.
The Awards offer rural community-based organisations in Northern Ireland or the border region of Ireland the opportunity to apply for and secure £1000 or €1000 towards their volunteer led community action project.

CURRENT CLOSING DATE:
CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS
What is a Rural Action Award?
Our Rural Action Awards scheme for this year will again support up to 12 volunteer led community action projects up to March 2025.
As before, the scheme is open to constituted rural community-based organisations including charities, not for profit community groups, sporting and cultural organisations, heritage groups, Parent Teacher Associations, youth groups/clubs and social enterprises.
The scheme seeks to support practical, tangible and timebound projects where the project must complete within 12 weeks.
What is different for this years Awards?
In recognition that Rural Action is now in its 6th year of operation, we will operate 2 calls for applications where 6 recipients will be randomly selected within each call.
The Awards are closed for the year 2024/2025.
Rural Action Awards Terms & Conditions.
“Rural Action was established out of a continued desire to make a positive contribution to the everyday lives of rural communities.
Our strapline is ‘Making it Happen’ and we hope that these modest awards, can in some way, contribute to doing just that, to help to support rural communities to make things happen locally”.