Project Updates
Grant Awarded (Name of Project, Organisation):
- Dardanelles Project, Fermanagh Genealogy Centre
- Feasibility Study for Proposed Museum for Heritage of Lough Erne, Lough Erne Heritage
- Community Initiative to acquire Bronze Age Sword, Fermanagh County Museum (part of Fermanagh Omagh District Council)
Grant Awarded (Name of Project, Organisation):
- Aghalane Accessible Woodland Walkway, Annagh Social Farm
- Bannagh Chapel Preservation Project, Bannagh Chapel Advisory Committee
- Shoreline Stories, Erne Water Taxi
- Safer Digs for Ducks, Devenish Wildfowler and Conversation Club
- Lovely Lough Erne, Fermanagh Authors Association
- Intergenerational Heritage Project, Knocks Peoples Community Enterprise
- Upper Lough Erne Islands Breeding Wader Project, Derrylin and District Gun Club
Application Information:
Do you have an exciting project that will help to protect, conserve and celebrate the unique natural, built and cultural heritage of the Lough Erne landscape?
LELP through this Community Engagement Farming Fund (CEFF) want to engage with the local community to enable the delivery of your project ideas. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support the delivery of new heritage projects within the LELP region.
Your project idea must fit within the current LELP themes, aims and objectives which can be found here. Further information and eligibility criteria can be found in the CEFF Guidance notes. LELP are currently delivering a varied scheme of projects further information can be found here.
Members of the LELP team are available to discuss your project ideas by contacting Heather Gott email heather.gott@rspb.org.uk or call 07738116385. (Due to the Covid 19 pandemic all staff are working from home)
Closing date for all applications 5:00pm Friday 15 January 2021 (late submissions will not be accepted)
To download the Application Form click here
To download the Guidance Notes click here
Grants Awarded (Name of Project, Organisation):
- Aghalane Accessible Woodland Walkway, Annagh Social Farm
- Jewels of Lough Erne, Buglife
- The Last Straw, Brian McManus
- Inishmacsaint Parish Church Graveyard Historical and Environmental Project, Inishmacsaint Parish Church
- The Past Recorded, The Kesh Courthouse
- The History of Lough Head, Lisnaskea Historical Society
- Hands on Heritage: Landscapes and Riverscape, Row the Erne
Application Information:
The Lough Erne Landscape Partnership (LELP) recognises the importance of engaging with the communities that live and work around the landscape area. The Lough Erne Landscape Partnership (LELP) Community Engagement Fund is open to both community groups and to the farming community. It is designed to help fund and implement exciting new projects within the LELP area (within our existing themes), to build on existing LELP projects and maximise links with the local community. For more information on LELP themes click here and for existing projects click here.
Download Community Engagement & Farming fund 2019 guidance notes here.
Download Community Engagement & Farming fund 2019 application forms here.
