Applications Open for IYF Flagship Fund 2025

Posted on 22 Sep 2025 Last updated on 29 Sep 2025

The Irish Youth Foundation is once again opening its Flagship Fund for 2025. The goal of this fund is to support projects and programmes around the country that are focused on lifting children and young people up and out of poverty. 

The Flagship Fund is now open for applications and closes on Friday, 17 October 2025 at 5pm.

Awards of between €1,500 - €30,000 are available with this fund.

The fund will support work that is aligned with one of the following three focus areas for change:

1. Educational Attainment – Programmes that support positive transitions through school from primary to secondary school and/or completion of secondary cycle

2. Health & Wellbeing – Programmes that support happy, healthy transitions from childhood through to adulthood

3. Skills & Employability –  Programmes that support successful transitions for young people to economic independence

The Fund will support organisations working with children and young people in the Republic of Ireland aged between 5-25 years.

To learn more about this opportunity please read the full fund criteria and review the  application form on the IYF website : https://iyf.ie/flagship-fund/  

All applications must be made via the online portal.

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