€4.75 million available for community safety improvement projects nationwide
The Community Safety Fund:
- Allows proceeds of crime to be directed into projects to support and enhance community safety
- Ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will access the funding they need
- Allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
- Benefits from the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds of criminal activity
Projects that previously benefited from the fund included initiatives that:
- Reduce the fear of crime, improve community safety and feelings of safety
- Support the creation of safe and resilient communities
- Reduce reoffending
- Divert vulnerable individuals away from engagement in criminal behaviour.
Applications may be submitted by individual organisations, or by a consortium involving two or more organisations where the lead partner is a community organisation, not-for-profit, social enterprise or similar with a remit relevant to community safety and/or youth justice.
For information on how to apply, visit www.gov.ie/communitysafety
Completed application forms must be returned by 5pm on 18 May 2026 to CommunitySafetyFund@justice.ie