The Department for Justice, Foreign Affairs and Migration has today announced funding of €3.6 million for organisations who help to assist in the integration of migrants.
The funding has been allocated to 117 not-for-profit, civil society and community-based organisations for integration based projects.
The Department said that grants of up to €100,000 will be allocated to successful organisations to assist in the integration of migrants.
The Minister of State for Migration, Colm Brophy, today announced the 117 community-based projects set to receive €3,612,974 in funding under the 2025 Integration Fund. The Fund, the department said, “helps enable community organisations across Ireland to play a greater role in promoting the integration of migrants.”
So far, close to €10 million in funding has been provided to over 1,000 projects across the country.
Minister of State Brophy said: “I am delighted to announce the list of successful local groups who will receive funding from the Integration fund today. The Integration Fund has been established for local community groups and civil society organisations who have been working tirelessly to promote and further integration within Irish society.
“Carrying out this work in an increasingly divisive world deserves to be recognised and commended. It is only through greater understanding and working together as local groups that we can improve integration and make Ireland a better and more tolerant country to live in for everyone.”
Mr Brophy, speaking today from Wexford, added: “Ireland needs migration. This Integration Fund recognised that migration impacts communities, and we should work together as communities to make our society, stronger and more cohesive.’’
Those who applied for the 2025 Integration Fund did so between 3 July 2025 – 31 July 2025.
WHO WERE RECIPIENTS?
Big-money recipients include the Irish Refugee Council, which has been given €97,070, along with Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland, which was awarded €91,800 in Dublin. Sanctuary Runners in Dublin received a taxpayer funded grant of €100,000, whilst Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Volunteer Centre also got €100,000 for an integration through volunteering programme.
The Irish Red Cross Society has been handed a grant of €99,133 for an IPA Information Outreach Project. The Open Doors Project in Dublin is also in receipt of €100,000 in funding.
Places of Sanctuary Island, based in Wexford, received €100,000 food a project about equipping and empowering sanctuary ambassadors. Cara-Phort Family Resource Centre in Westmeath also received one of the highest amounts – €99,963 in funding for a Midlands Integration Pathways Programme.
In Tipperary, Silver Arch Family Resource Centre was allocated €94,874 for a Unity Youth Hub Project. Elsewhere in the county, €38.900 was granted to South Tipperary Development Company for a project called ‘Bridging Language and Employment.’
Donegal Intercultural Forum was given €76,000 for a project called ‘Pathways to Inclusion.’
Blackwater Training and Consulting, based in Cavan, was awarded €45,960 for a project entitled ‘Pathways to Employment: Building Language, Digital & Employability Skills for IPAs in Rural Ireland.’Meanwhile, Clonakilty Friends of Asylum Seekers in Cork received €16,792 for an ‘Active Migrant Kids Community Integration Project.’
Also in Cork, Macroom Family Resource Centre was awarded €16,800 for therapeutic and counselling support for international protection applicants in Macroom. Meath Partnership received €91,510 for a project about bridging language and wellbeing.
Africa Solidarity Centre Ireland was awarded €52,450 in Dublin for a project aimed at facilitating International Protection Applicants’ Understanding of the Asylum Process Through the Provision of Legal Information and Host Activities Supporting their Integration.
Also in Dublin, Charlemont Community Resource Centre Company Limited By Guarantee received €100,000 for its Dóchas (Hope) Project. Muslim Sisters of Eire received €16,000 in Dublin for a children’s summer project. Also in receipt of funding was Dublin City University, which was given €25,700 for an Irish Refugee Integration Network.