The British Deaf Association (NI) finds funding using GrantTracker

The charity were first alerted to the funding opportunity on GrantTracker and successfully applied for and received £8,150 from the Santander Foundation’s central grant fund to deliver the training course.

In May of this year, 8 candidates began a six week ‘Aspects of Citizenship’ course, accredited through the Open College Network at Level 2 (3 credits). The aim of the course was to empower Deaf people to develop their personal, social and community skills and knowledge thus enabling full and active participation in wider civic society and was especially tailored to meet the needs of the Deaf Europeans (from Poland, Hungary, Lithuania) now living in Northern Ireland.  

The course was very well received among the Deaf candidates and culminated in the students attending an opening meeting at Stormont to put questions and the Deaf view to the MLA’s in attendance.  It was wonderful to see Deaf people taking an active part in political life and making a stand for their own community.

Colette McMahon of The BDA (NI) said: “We are very grateful to Santander Foundation for funding the project and to NICVA’s GrantTracker facility which is where the organisation first learnt of the availability of the Foundation’s fund.  GrantTracker is a great resource for charities like the BDA with regular updates supplied by email so information is always current”.

To find out more about GrantTracker visit the website www.grant-tracker.org or get in touch with Deirdre Murphy who will be happy to take your call Tel: 028 9087 7777 or receive your email [email protected]