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23 December 2021

Get Ready – New Covid Recovery Programme for Ulster-Scots Organisations opening January 2022

 

The Ulster-Scots Agency, on behalf of the Department for Communities (DfC), will open online applications to a Covid Recovery Programme for Ulster-Scots Organisations, from 9.00am on Friday 7th January 2022.  
 
The funding programme is open to Ulster-Scots organisations across Northern Ireland and applications will close at 5.00pm on Friday 28th January 2022 with decisions expected shortly afterwards.  
 
The new programme aims to reduce or remove operating deficits in eligible Ulster-Scots cultural organisations. These are deficits which have arisen in the 2021/22 financial year because of the long period of lockdown experienced by the sector during the pandemic. It is hoped this support may alleviate the significant financial pressures they face and help them to get back up and running again. 

 

The Ulster-Scots Agency is asking organisations to get ready for the application process by carefully reading the Guidance Notes, which are available at the Apply for Funding section of our website HERE and gathering the following information, which will be required to complete the application: 

 

·         Governing Document (Rules / Constitution and / Memorandum or Articles of Association);  

·         Last complete set of accounts prior to 31 March 2020 (when the pandemic started); 

·         Bank Statements covering 31 March 2021 (showing your opening balance for the 2021-22 financial year)            and 30 September 2021;

·         Details of your income and expenditure from 1st April 2021 to 30th September 2022; 

·         Projected income and expenditure from October 2021 to March 2022; 

 

Don’t be put off from applying because this scheme sounds a bit more complicated than what you might be used to.  We have worked hard to make the scheme as straightforward as possible and many of the financial parts of the form will calculate automatically once you put your figures in.  Several organisations in the Ulster-Scots sector will also have people available to help you with the form.  Contact details for them will be posted online on 7th January.
 
The Ulster-Scots Agency will close for Christmas on 23rd December and reopen on 4th January. 

 
Blythe Yuletide frae aaboadie at tha Boord o Ulster-Scotch!