The Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO) are making €30,000 in grants available to community groups to organise a water-related event for Heritage Week. The theme of Heritage Week 2025 is ‘Exploring Our Foundations’. Water Heritage Day is the last Sunday of Heritage week and provides a great opportunity to acknowledge the importance of our local rivers, lakes and coastal areas to our lives in the past, now and into the future.
LAWPRO is a national shared service working on behalf of the 31 local authorities coordinating efforts to achieve good water quality in rivers, lakes, estuaries, ground and coastal waters. Their fund ‘Water Heritage Day Grants Scheme 2025’ provides financial supports to celebrate Water Heritage Day on Sunday the 24th of August. It aims to encourage community groups to organise a ‘riverside walk and talk’, river safari, or other event to celebrate our water-based foundations and natural heritage.
To make an application see: https://submit.link/3T3
Water Heritage Day is organised in partnership with the Heritage Council, and to run a Heritage Week event you have to register your event on their website: www.heritageweek.ie/get-involved/organise-an-event
If you are holding a Water Heritage Day event you can submit your event to be considered for a Water Heritage Award. More information on the awards can be found here: www.heritageweek.ie/awards
You are asked to contact your local Community Water Officer in advance of making an application. Their contact details are on the LAWPRO website: Communities Team – Local Authority Water Programme (lawaters.ie)
The deadline for making an application is Friday, 25th of July at 4pm.
