New Grant Opens in January – Apply for a Project Grant for Community Activities
The City of Tampere has opened a new project grant that can be applied for community activities. The grant can be used to implement projects, events, and other activities that increase the sense of belonging and attachment among Tampere residents. The Project Grant for Community Activities can be applied for continuously throughout 2025.
The Project Grant for Community activities can be obtained for activities that support community spirit, bring Tampere residents together, improve the ability of communities to work for the benefit of Tampere residents, enhance the city's pleasantness and residents' well-being, promote a resource- and energy-saving lifestyle, and strengthen people's equal attachment to the community or residential area.
– With the support, you can organize a nature trip, a small event in the neighborhood, or even a bike repair workshop, describes Regional Coordinator Noora Karumaa.
The applicant for the grant can be an association, an individual resident, or a working group, for example. The activities must be open to everyone, but they can also have a specific target group, such as children, the elderly, or residents of a particular area.
The application for the new one-time grant for community activities opens on Tuesday the 7th of January 2025. The grant can be applied for using an electronic form available at tampere.fi/en/grants. A maximum of 2000 euros can be granted for one project.
More details about the new grant and other grants awarded by the city will be provided at an open grant information session, which will be held in the Lehmus Hall of the main library Metso on Wednesday the 8th of January 2025, starting at 17.30. The event can also be followed on the Tampere Channel.
More community activities for Tampere
The new grant diversifies the range of grants awarded by the City of Tampere. A total of 50,000 euros has been allocated for the grant in 2025, and grants will be awarded as long as the funds last. The year 2025 is a trial year for the grant, during which it will still be seeking its final form.
– When awarding grants, it has been noticed that residents have ideas that the city would like to support, but which do not necessarily fit into the content of the current grants, comments Planner Lotta Harsunen.
In the spring of 2024, the Mansen Massit Community Grant experiment was organized to respond to the need of active Tampere residents to carry out various activities around the city. Massen Massit grants were granted for both small and larger activities in Tampere. The development of Mansen Massit also continues.
– One of the results of Mansen Massit Community Grant was that residents and communities have a lot of enthusiasm to organize diverse and wonderful community activities in the city. It is great that we now have a grant that can be applied for continuously for such activities, Harsunen says.
