Dublin Airport Community Fund
Your ideas, Our Support
Dublin Airport's Community Fund is now open for the six-week period for applications until Friday, 25 April, 2025.
The Fund supports local projects that make a positive contribution to our neighbouring communities.
We will support applications from organisations located in the following areas:
Ballymun • Cloghran • Forrest Little • Greater Baskin • Hollystown • Malahide • Portmarnock • Rolestown • Santry • St. Margarets • Swords • The Ward • Tyrrelstown
We are interested in working with communities on developing initiatives around, for example, environmental and sustainability, health and wellbeing and social inclusion.
Dublin Airport Local Community Access Scholarship
We have partnered with Dublin City University (DCU) to provide scholarships through DCU’s Access Service, to those students that may be marginalised in our community, giving them a unique opportunity to access third level education.
The Community Fund will also support up to 20 students per year to enable them to attend DCU via its Access Programme. To find out more about the DCU Access Service, you can visit its website on www.dcu.ie/access
Community Fund Logo/Branding
Successful applicants will need Dublin Airport Community Fund’s logo to promote support of their initiative, which will be included in the subsequent Outcome Report mentioned above. This promotion could take the form of pitch-side signage, club jerseys or kits, garden benches or allotment signs, group websites, newsletters, social media, etc. Print and digital versions of the Community Fund logo are available below. Please read the Dublin Airport Community Fund Toolkit before using our logos. The Brand Toolkit will tell you all you need to know about which logo(s) to use and how to use them.
If you require any advice or assistance regarding use of the Community Fund’s logo, please contact us at communityfund@daa.ie.
Allocation of Funding
Dublin Airport’s Community Fund has allocated over €2.8 million to local community initiatives since its launch. In 2024 alone, 112 local community projects shared €500,000 for sports, recreation, environmental, education and community development initiatives.
Contact Us
If you require assistance or have any questions related to the fund, you can contact us directly: communityfund@daa.ie
Dublin Airport’s Community Fund has hit the milestone of €2.5 million in funding to clubs and community groups in north Dublin.
That total will soon increase further with the Community Fund back open for another round of funding, which will see a further purse of up to €250,000 being distributed to successful applicants.
The new autumn funding round will remain open until Friday, October 25.
In 2023, the airport shared over €540,000 between 111 different groups operating in communities surrounding Dublin Airport. A further €250,000 was distributed earlier this year to more than 50 projects as part of the Fund’s spring funding round,
Dublin Airport’s Community Fund was launched in 2017 with a total investment of €10 million to be distributed over 25 years.
The Fund makes a call for applications twice a year – normally in Spring and Autumn, with two types of grants available: Minor Grants of less than €5,000; and Major Grants of more than €5,000.
Applications to the fund are invited from 13 eligible areas from Santry, south of the airport to Rolestown in the north, and from Tyrrelstown on the west to Portmarnock on the east.
Dublin Airport’s Community Engagement Manager, Angela Flynn, said: "Dublin Airport is proud to support a large number of fantastic community activities and initiatives. In 2023, the fund gave out more than €540,000 and we followed that up earlier this year with the distribution of around €250,000 to around 50 recipients. We’re excited to open it once again this year and are already seeing lots of great applications flying in. The fund recognises the inter-connected relationship that exists between our local communities and Dublin Airport, which supports more than 20,000 jobs on the airport campus and we want to add more jobs over the coming years.
“We are particularly interested in working with organisations to develop initiatives in areas such as the environment, sustainability, health, wellbeing, and social inclusion. We look forward to another busy round of applications and to supporting more organisations and initiatives in our local community," added Flynn.
About Dublin Airport’s Community Fund
The Dublin Airport Community Fund supports local projects that make a positive contribution to communities around Dublin Airport with applications encouraged across six categories including Environment and Sustainability, Sports and Recreation, Education and Training, Health and Wellbeing, Social Inclusion and Community Development, and Culture and Heritage.
Organisations that have received funding in the past are welcome to submit applications for new projects. Awards from the Community Fund are made by an independent Grant Making Panel.
The Fund also supports up to 20 students per year from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to enable them to attend Dublin City University (DCU) via its Access Programme.
Groups applying for funding can find an easy 'how-to-apply' guide along with an application form on the airport’s website at: https://www.dublinairport.com/corporate/corporate-social-responsibility/community-fund
Anyone with questions regarding the fund should contact: communityfund@daa.ie.
Additional Information:
Further details of Dublin Airport’s community engagement work can be found in our summer 2024 newsletter, which is available to view on our website: dublin-airport-news-summer-2024_digital.pdf (dublinairport.com)
Details of where previous funding has been allocated can be found on our website, along with information on which types of project have been supported: Dublin Airport Community Fund
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