Eligibility Criteria

• You should be aged 18 years or over at the time of applying for the programme.
• You should be the social entrepreneur leading the project/organisation. You should be the main driver and primary decision maker. 
• The primary focus of the project/organisation should be on benefitting people in Ireland.
• You should have an innovative approach to bringing about social change. 
• Your project/organisation should have moved beyond the initial idea stage. You should have activities up and running that relate directly to the problem that you are trying to address. 
• You should be willing to work on developing your project/organisation on a full time basis for the full duration of the Impact Programme (2 – 3 years).
• You should have the ambition to significantly scale and grow the impact of your project/organisation beyond its current level. 
• You should be open to the learning and development opportunities provided through our Impact Programme.
• You must be available to attend Bootcamp on Tuesday 27th March in Dublin.
• You should be available to participate in the Finalists’ Programme that takes place over the summer months.

Please note we are not in the position to support the following research projects, party-political projects, or projects with an explicit religious or faith-based agenda (as opposed to projects that are driven by a personal belief system but are open to all the community).