European Union Special Support Programme for Peace and Reconciliation: An Estimate of Community Uptake

This publication addresses the issue of religious community uptake of available funding and the complex relationship between religious community background, deprivation, funding applications and approved funding. Whilst a previous publication examined only a small proportion of total funding, this report extends this analysis to the full budget of the SSPPR. The paper examines the number of project applications made and approved as well as their aggregate financial value, before going on to look at the religious community and relative deprivation profiles of the 1991 Census Enumeration Districts (EDs) in which these projects originated. The final part of the study reports on a statistical analysis of the effects of factors such as population size, religious community background, deprivation and the propensity to apply for funding on the distribution of funding.