FOI - 2012 - 23 Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland - STRIPE Project

Date of response:
August 2012

Request:
"Following the award of £884,000 in April this year to the Orange Order to fund their STRIPE cross community, cross border project, can you tell me:

1. How the distribution of this money within the Orange Order is accounted for? (i.e. do local groups need to apply to the Orange Order for use of this money? And who is responsible for documenting this?)
2. What is the criteria that projects must adhere to in order to successfully access this money?
3. What programmes and projects have so far been funded under this project? (I would appreciate a breakdown of the money allocated to each project, the area or region of the project, and who heads the project)
4.  Is it possible, for the purposes of accountability, to see the application made by the Orange Order, on which this money was successfully awarded by the European Union Peace 3 fund?"

Outcome: