
The Ulster Bank Sir George Quigley Award Fund is an annual award that aims to help the community and voluntary sector achieve long-term sustainability for their work.

Castlereagh and North Down have been shortlisted in a competition seeking expressions of interest for Capital Grant funding to assist in building an Olympic standard 50 metre pool.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Parliament will provide grants for schemes that raise the public's awareness of its activities.

Building the Community-Pharmacy Partnership have opened their latest round of funding. The closing date for applications for Level 2 and 3 applications is 16th November 2006 and for Level 1's 15th December 2006.

A further £4 million will be made available for projects that make a lasting improvement to the local environment by creating new Breathing Places, as well as supporting the development of existing ones.

Development Marketplace is a competitive grant program of the World Bank that funds creative, small-scale development projects that deliver results and have the potential to be expanded or replicated.

Applications for the 2007 European information and communication technologies (ICT) prize are now open. Excellence is sought in converting innovative ideas and R&D results into marketable products.

The International Fund for Ireland is inviting bids to deliver its Community Bridges Programme.

The Arts Council has reopened its Annual Support of Organisations Programme on 4 October with a closing date of 16 November 2006.

The Government is citing the failure to "meet the necessary government accounting requirements" as the reason for DHSSPS withdrawing core funds from the Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre.