Is your group/community or school planning to promote greater public awareness and education in relation to litter and/or graffiti?

If so, you may be eligible for funding under the Anti-Litter & Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant Scheme 2025. Sligo County Council is now accepting applications under this scheme for projects in Sligo which encourage action against litter through awareness and education.

Projects/activities should focus on the following:

• Projects/activities should seek to promote greater public awareness and education in relation to litter and/or graffiti, and should, as far as possible, have a particular focus on involving schools and young people and on voluntary initiatives by community and environmental groups.
• Projects highlighting awareness of issues regarding responsible dog ownership with respect to dog fouling and the dangers not cleaning up can pose to the public including young children and wheelchair users.
• Adopt a road, adopt a bring bank, community clean ups or similar initiatives, (e.g. planting of a hedge to prevent graffiti, adopt a section of road, designated bring banks or housing estates kept litter free by local community groups). Sligo County Council will provide bags and collect waste following a clean up.
• Plays, puppet shows, interactive workshops, story telling, talks, art projects mainly aimed at schools.
• Anti-litter and anti-graffiti awareness competitions, design a poster competition (e.g. schools competitions with the winning designs produced as anti litter posters or anti litter calendars, competition to find a child to present anti-litter awareness programmes on local/regional radio).
• Provision of anti-litter materials (e.g. car litter bins, cigarette butt holders, chewing gum wrappers, anti-litter car stickers, anti-litter stickers for bins).
• Local advertising (e.g. cinema advertising, radio advertising, local press, local sports ground advertising, distribution of anti litter/graffiti leaflets).

Deadline: 4:00pm, Friday 27th June 2025.
Click here to apply and for more info.