The Community Safety Fund is an annual grant fund which allows for the proceeds of crime, seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and An Garda Síochána, to be directed back into communities, in order to fund innovative local projects aimed at building stronger, safer communities.
The Community Safety Fund:
Allows proceeds of crime to be directed into community projects to support community safety
Ensures that the most appropriate proposals to improve community safety will receive the funding they require
Encourages the development proposals to improve community safety from those people who best understand local community safety needs
Allows best practice on community safety and youth justice to be shared with other partnerships and communities nationally as new proposals are developed
Reflects and highlights the success of An Garda Síochána and the Criminal Assets Bureau in seizing the proceeds from criminal activity
Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Jim O’Callaghan opened the 2026 Fund to applications on Monday 13 April 2026.
Grants range between €20,000 – €150,000.
Applications close on Monday 18 May at 5pm.
For more information or to apply for a grant, click here