Vhi Health & Wellbeing Fund Open for Applications

Posted on 26 May 2025

Vhi are partnering with the Irish Youth Foundation again this year to manage the 2025 Vhi Health & Wellbeing Fund. 

A fund of €85,000 is available to community-based projects and programmes that are focused on empowering young people aged 12-25 year under the following two focus areas:

  1. The fund will support projects that seek to strengthen resilience in young people and help them manage anxiety, with the emphasis on early intervention and prevention. Projects may work directly with young people or with the adults that surround them.
  2. The fund is looking to support projects in the six locations where Vhi have offices; Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny and Limerick.

To be eligible the applying organisation must:

  • Work with young people aged between 12-25 years old
  • Be a registered not-for-profit or charitable organisation
  • The organisation must have a bank account set up in the name of the organisation
  • Be registered in the Republic of Ireland and active in Ireland for the past 12 months
  • The organisation must have a child protection policy in place.

Application Info

Full information about this fund can be found on the IYF website:
https://iyf.ie/vhi-health-and-wellbeing-fund-2025/

Deadline for applications: Weds, 11 June 2025 @ 11.59pm.

Note: applications for the fund must be made via the online grants portal (available via above link).

Topics