2024/2025 Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme Expression of Interest
Fingal County Council will administer the 2024/2025 Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) funded by the Department of Rural & Community Development. ORIS is funded under Project Ireland 2040 and is a key initiative of Our Rural Future – Ireland’s Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 and Embracing Ireland’s Outdoors, the National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023 – 2027.
The focus of ORIS is to support outdoor recreational infrastructure in countryside areas across Ireland that not only provides an outlet for the communities in which they are situated but also delivers added value from a tourism perspective. Projects typically funded by ORIS include walkways, cycleways, blueways, water and cycle trails, mountain access routes, bridleways, and open water amenities at bogs, rivers, lakes and beaches, including tidal pools.
2024/25 ORIS scheme measures:
Measure 1
Small scale repair/development/promotion and marketing.
Funding of up to €40,000 at a 90% rate of aid.
Measure 1 Expression of Interest Form
Measure 2
Medium scale repair/upgrade and new trail/amenity development.
Funding of up to €200,000 at a 90% rate of aid.
Measure 2 Expression of Interest Form
Measure 3
Large scale repair/upgrade and new strategic trail/amenity development
Funding of up to €500,000 at a 90% rate of aid
Measure 3 Expression of Interest Form
Project Development Measure
Detailed development of projects which would enable them to reach a standard for application under Measure 2 or Measure 3 of ORIS.
Funding of up to €50,000 at a 90% rate of aid.
Project Development Measure Expression of Interest Form
Completed Expression of Interest forms must be returned by email only to [email protected] .
Further information available here:
https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/181e2-outdoor-recreation-infrastructure-scheme/
Closing dates for Expression of Interest forms:
Measure 1 and Project Development Measure: 5:00pm Thursday 9th of January 2025.
Measure 2 and 3: 5:00pm Thursday 20th of February 2025.
For queries, please email [email protected] .
Expressions of Interests received after these time and dates will not be considered for the 2024/25 Outdoor Recreational Infrastructure Scheme