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<\/a>North Down Borough Council are delighted to announce that the next round of Tourism Event Grants are now available and interested parties are invited to apply for these grants to fund upcoming local events.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Tourism Grants programme is a small grants programme funded by North Down Borough Council.\u00a0 The programme is part of the Council\u2019s Tourism plan to ensure that the Borough will be in the top tourism destinations in Northern Ireland. In the past, The Council has supported events such as:<\/p>\n
–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Down Model Railway Society\u2019s Model Exhibition, North Down Cycling Club\u2019s Grand Prix, The Cultra Hill Climb and The Ireman Triathlon <\/strong>to name but a few.<\/p>\n The Grants Programme is operated twice yearly and applications are now being accepted for events taking place from1 April to 31 October 2013.\u00a0 The grants are assessed on the following criteria: number of bednights generated, positive PR generated, duration of event and projected spectator numbers.<\/p>\n An advertisement for applications for next round grants will appear in local press on September 6th<\/sup> 2012 and information is also available on www.northdown.gov.uk<\/a> and www.northdowntourism.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Application forms can be downloaded from the websites so even if you\u2019re just thinking about organising an event, we would encourage you to apply.<\/p>\n North Down Borough Council\u2019s Tourism Manager, Alison Stobie commented; \u201cwe are really delighted that in the past, organisations have benefited from our grants and would urge other local groups with upcoming events to submit an application for the latest round of grants.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Closing date for acceptance of completed applications is Friday 19th<\/sup> October 2012 at 5pm.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thinking of organising an event? Don\u2019t know where to start? North Down Borough Council are delighted to announce that the next round of Tourism Event Grants are now available and interested parties are invited to apply for these grants to fund upcoming local events. The Tourism Grants programme is a small grants programme funded by … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}