The Deputación announces 225,000 euros for neighborhood and women's associations

The Deputación da Coruña is allocating 225,000 euros to a new grant program for neighborhood associations in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and for women’s associations in the province, intended for activities to be carried out throughout 2027. The call is approved by Resolution number 46273, of October 26, 2026, of the Presidency of the Deputación da Coruña, which is published as an extract in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña (BOP) number 214, of November 9, 2026, in the Local Administration section (announcement 2026/7222). The call is registered in the National Grants Database with the identifier BDNS 939692.

The text is published in application of articles 17.3.b and 20.8.a of Law 38/2003, of November 17, general grants law, which requires the publication of the extract of the calls through the corresponding official gazette. The regulatory bases governing the program are those approved by the Deputación da Coruña and published in BOP number 210, of November 3, 2026 (announcement 2026/7039), under the designation DP0042A/2027 and managed by the Territorial Development, Productive Sectors, Sustainable Employment and Ecological Transition Service. The program is integrated into the provincial strategic grant plan of the Deputación 2025-2027, approved by the Plenary of the Corporation in the ordinary session of September 27, 2024.

Four-week deadline and processing only via electronic means

The deadline for submitting applications begins at 08:00 hours on November 20, 2026, and ends at 14:00 hours on December 18, 2026. Interested entities therefore have four weeks to formalize the request.

• All processing, from the application to the justification, is carried out electronically through the SUBTEL platform, accessible from the electronic office of the Deputación da Coruña (https://sede.dacoruna.gal).
• More than one application per person or entity is not permitted; to avoid fragmentation, a single legal person is considered to be one with more than 50 percent of common members or directors with another.

Two axes: neighborhoods and small municipalities, and women’s collectives

Non-profit entities with a tax domicile in the province of A Coruña, or those that prove that the activities will be executed within the provincial territorial scope, may apply. The program is divided into two axes: neighborhood associations of municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and women’s associations, including figures such as housewives’ associations.

The objective is activities of general interest within the parish, municipal, or regional scope aimed at boosting citizen participation, stimulating social cohesion, promoting civic behavior, favoring integration, fighting against rural depopulation, and improving quality of life. In the women’s axis, specific lines of empowerment and entrepreneurship, active aging and healthy habits, attention to women in situations of vulnerability, and the fight against unwanted loneliness are added.

The call expressly excludes a list of entities:

• Volunteer groups, hunters’ associations, and mountain communities.
• Livestock, agricultural, forestry, and environmental entities.
• Cultural and sports associations, water user communities, and professional associations.
• Chambers of commerce, open shopping centers, and any entity directly participated in by a public administration (GALP, GDR).

Between 1,200 and 10,000 euros per project

The total amount of the call is 225,000.00 euros, charged to item 0520/4142/481 of the 2027 budget, an amount that may be changed by budgetary modification. Each entity must present an expenditure budget between 1,500 and 12,500 euros, and the granted subsidy ranges between 1,200 and 10,000 euros, covering between 20 and 80 percent of the eligible expenditure.

The award is made through competitive bidding, with a provisional and definitive proposal approved by resolution of the presidency and the report of a technical commission designated by resolution and published in the BOP. The scale distributes up to 50 points for the requested financing coefficient, up to 10 points for the number of members, and up to 40 points for the interest of the proposal, of which 20 correspond to the impact on the fight against rural depopulation and 20 to the social impact of the investment.

2027 activities and justification until March 2028

Activities must be executed between January 1 and December 31, 2027, although supporting documents issued before January 16, 2028, will be accepted for end-of-period expenses. The justification, via a simplified justification account, closes on March 31, 2028, at 2:00 PM.

• Eligible expenses: purchases of non-inventoriable material, works commissioned to other companies, leases, contracted transport, advertising, salaries, indemnities, and social security of the personnel linked to the activities.
• Excluded expenses: meals and accommodation, general expenses of the entity, protocol attentions, inventoriable material, financial and management expenses.
• The rental of the social premises is only justified with more than 20 annual activities and without exceeding 50 percent of the total expenditure.
• Dissemination obligations: include the provincial logo with the text “Activity subsidized by the Deputación da Coruña”, display the corporate image on the website, and maintain the official page and informative materials in Galician.

The grants are compatible with other subsidies from any administration or public or private entity for the same purpose, but incompatible with others from the Deputación da Coruña itself, except for program DP0042B. The resolution bears the signature of the provincial president, Valentín González Formoso, in A Coruña on October 26, 2026.

The impact of the measure is measured in direct money to the associative fabric of small municipalities: neighborhood entities and women’s collectives have a stable channel, a closed calendar, and an amount that can cover up to 80 percent of an annual program of activities, which is decisive for associations with limited self-financing capacity.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña, number 214, November 9, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-2 (official reference: announcement 2026/7222; resolution 46273; BDNS 939692).