£4.33 million of funding has already been released and three projects have been approved
A football club in North Belfast is the first recipient of a fund to address social need through targeted funding to communities in Northern Ireland. Crusader's Football Club will be using their funds to focus on the installation of a new 3G pitch at their Loughshore Road Recreation Facility.
Minister Lyons said: "The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector is hugely important for our local economy, providing much needed employment opportunities as well as vital community support. It is great to visit Crusaders FC to see their plans for a new training base for their ladies and youth teams and meet some of the people who will benefit from the investment.
Mark Langhammer, Crusaders FC Vice Chair said: “Crusaders Football Club are delighted to work with Community Finance Ireland in developing training facilities that will particularly benefit the female and junior sections of our club and surrounding area. Donal Traynor, Group Chief Executive of Community Finance Ireland, welcomed the new tranche of funding. He said: “This new capital programme offers the most substantial capital intervention to the social finance space in Northern Ireland, ever.
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