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The GIY ‘Get Ireland Growing Fund’ in association with AIB is open for applications but the deadline is nigh — January 23 is the closing date. 

The GIY/AIB initiative offers community groups, schools and not-for-profits a chance to gain a bursary of €500 to €2,500 out of a total fund of just under a million euro. Not bad, eh?

The Get Ireland Growing Fund supported 110 projects in 2014 ranging from school gardens, a probation centre in Cork; a project at the Irish Wheelchair Association in Athy; food gardens at Focus Ireland and Galway Simon, as well as an ‘edible quayside’ garden in New Ross.