Community Notes August End
Dear Community Group,
This September the RSA’s Check it Fits service will be visiting County Cavan. Did you know it’s the law that all children under 150cms or 36kgs must use a child car seat appropriate to their weight and height. In Ireland as many as 4 out of 5 child car seats are incorrectly fitted which can lead to serious injury or even death in a collision.
Since October 2013, the RSA’s ‘Check it Fits’ Service has checked over 21,000 child car seats and restraints in Ireland. Worryingly, 79% of seats required a major adjustment, of which 3% were deemed not fit for purpose and condemned, meaning they could have caused injury or even death in the event of a collision.
The Check it Fits service is quick, it’s easy, it’s free. On the day our experts will advise on how to fix any problem, demonstrate how to fit the restraint correctly and answer any queries participants might have. Our experts aim to put parent’s, grandparent’s and guardian’s minds at ease that their child’s car seat is safely and securely fitted in their car.
We will be visiting the following locations in Cavan:
Location
Street Name
Town
Date
Time
Toyota
Erne Motor Works, Dublin Road
Cavan
Wednesday 6 September 2017
10.00am – 5.30pm
SuperValu
Kells Road
Kingscourt
Thursday 7 September 2017
10.00am – 5.30pm
We would be delighted if you could help us to raise awareness of child safety in cars by letting colleagues, friends, family members and any other relevant contacts know about our upcoming visit to Cavan. We have included a copy of our poster which may be useful for promoting the ‘Check it Fits’ Service in your workplace and local community also.
If you have any questions or require any additional information please let us know for more information on the service visit www.checkitfits.ie. We look forward to seeing you in Cavan.
POSITIVE AGE EVENTS PROGRAMME AUTUMN/WINTER 2017
POSITIVE AGE ARE FACILITATING THE CLASSES LISTED BELOW DURING THE AUTUMN/WINTER AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE, CASTLEMANOR.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING ANY OF THESE CLASSES, CAN YOU PLEASE CONTACT US IN THE POSITIVE AGE OFFICE
049 4380725 THE CLASSES WILL BE HELD DURING EITHER MORNINGS OR AFTERNOONS DURING WEEK DAYS.
WALKING GROUP
LIGHT EXERCISE/GAMES
SOCIAL DANCING
SINGING GROUP
PAINTING/ART CLASSES
COMPUTER CLASSES
FLOWER ARRANGING CLASS
POSITIVE THINKING CLASS
KNITTING GROUP
MUSICIANS SINGERS DANCERS STORY TELLERS
ARE ALL MOST WELCOME
“Recovery and the Family” Free Event
There is a “Recovery and the Family” education course taking place in Bridge Street Centre, Cavan, from 4th October to the 15th November. This is a recovery focused course, exclusively for family members supporting a person with self experience of a mental health difficulty.
Any queries contact Derek Pepper, Regional Development Officer, North East Region,SHINE – Supporting People Affected by Mental Ill Health, on or before Friday 29th September. Mobile: 0868525422. Email: dpepper@shineonline.ie.Shine - Supporting People Affected by Mental Ill Health #mentalhealth
FOOD WASTE FREE PROGRAM
Please find attached details of a four week free programme relating to the issue of food waste which we are running in
Cavan Town and Bailieborough Libraries in September.
Anyone who is interested in participating in the 4 week programme should register their interest by emailinginfo@cavancoco.ie
AT The Edge, Cavan
A Brilliant Evening Beckons
Tuesday 29 August. 6.30pm
Johnston Library, Cavan
Readers
Lisa Frank
Maurice Devitt
Stephen James Smith
Musical Interlude: Elena Duff
OPEN MIC
Everyone Welcome
WATER CONSULTATION SURVEY
Hi All,
I would be most grateful if you would complete the following survey that aims to find out how people feel about their local water sources. By completing this short survey you will help inform actions to protect our water locally and nationally.
https://consultation.environ.ie/index.php/684561/lang-en
Please forward this request to all your contacts.
Thank you very much,
Gretta
Gretta McCarron - Community Water Officer
Local Authority Waters and Communities Office
Oifig an Údaráis Áitiúil um Uiscí agus Pobail
m. 085 808 5756
e. gmccarron@lawco.ie
Covering Louth, Monaghan and Cavan Local Authority areas
www.lawco.ie
www.watersandcommunities.ie
www.catchments.ie
PPN Newsletter for Autumn: YOUR PHOTOS NEEDED!!!
Cavan PPN brings out a quarterly newsletter for all the community groups in the county. For this Autumn we want to deliver a colourful photographic newsletter on the fairs, festivals and celebrations of County Cavan over the summer. If you were a part of or attended these events please send us on a photo or two with your name and/or name of people in the photo if you have them. Thanks
This September the RSA’s Check it Fits service will be visiting County Cavan. Did you know it’s the law that all children under 150cms or 36kgs must use a child car seat appropriate to their weight and height. In Ireland as many as 4 out of 5 child car seats are incorrectly fitted which can lead to serious injury or even death in a collision.
Since October 2013, the RSA’s ‘Check it Fits’ Service has checked over 21,000 child car seats and restraints in Ireland. Worryingly, 79% of seats required a major adjustment, of which 3% were deemed not fit for purpose and condemned, meaning they could have caused injury or even death in the event of a collision.
The Check it Fits service is quick, it’s easy, it’s free. On the day our experts will advise on how to fix any problem, demonstrate how to fit the restraint correctly and answer any queries participants might have. Our experts aim to put parent’s, grandparent’s and guardian’s minds at ease that their child’s car seat is safely and securely fitted in their car.
We will be visiting the following locations in Cavan:
Location
Street Name
Town
Date
Time
Toyota
Erne Motor Works, Dublin Road
Cavan
Wednesday 6 September 2017
10.00am – 5.30pm
SuperValu
Kells Road
Kingscourt
Thursday 7 September 2017
10.00am – 5.30pm
We would be delighted if you could help us to raise awareness of child safety in cars by letting colleagues, friends, family members and any other relevant contacts know about our upcoming visit to Cavan. We have included a copy of our poster which may be useful for promoting the ‘Check it Fits’ Service in your workplace and local community also.
If you have any questions or require any additional information please let us know for more information on the service visit www.checkitfits.ie. We look forward to seeing you in Cavan.
POSITIVE AGE EVENTS PROGRAMME AUTUMN/WINTER 2017
POSITIVE AGE ARE FACILITATING THE CLASSES LISTED BELOW DURING THE AUTUMN/WINTER AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE, CASTLEMANOR.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING ANY OF THESE CLASSES, CAN YOU PLEASE CONTACT US IN THE POSITIVE AGE OFFICE
049 4380725 THE CLASSES WILL BE HELD DURING EITHER MORNINGS OR AFTERNOONS DURING WEEK DAYS.
WALKING GROUP
LIGHT EXERCISE/GAMES
SOCIAL DANCING
SINGING GROUP
PAINTING/ART CLASSES
COMPUTER CLASSES
FLOWER ARRANGING CLASS
POSITIVE THINKING CLASS
KNITTING GROUP
MUSICIANS SINGERS DANCERS STORY TELLERS
ARE ALL MOST WELCOME
“Recovery and the Family” Free Event
There is a “Recovery and the Family” education course taking place in Bridge Street Centre, Cavan, from 4th October to the 15th November. This is a recovery focused course, exclusively for family members supporting a person with self experience of a mental health difficulty.
Any queries contact Derek Pepper, Regional Development Officer, North East Region,SHINE – Supporting People Affected by Mental Ill Health, on or before Friday 29th September. Mobile: 0868525422. Email: dpepper@shineonline.ie.Shine - Supporting People Affected by Mental Ill Health #mentalhealth
FOOD WASTE FREE PROGRAM
Please find attached details of a four week free programme relating to the issue of food waste which we are running in
Cavan Town and Bailieborough Libraries in September.
Anyone who is interested in participating in the 4 week programme should register their interest by emailinginfo@cavancoco.ie
AT The Edge, Cavan
A Brilliant Evening Beckons
Tuesday 29 August. 6.30pm
Johnston Library, Cavan
Readers
Lisa Frank
Maurice Devitt
Stephen James Smith
Musical Interlude: Elena Duff
OPEN MIC
Everyone Welcome
WATER CONSULTATION SURVEY
Hi All,
I would be most grateful if you would complete the following survey that aims to find out how people feel about their local water sources. By completing this short survey you will help inform actions to protect our water locally and nationally.
https://consultation.environ.ie/index.php/684561/lang-en
Please forward this request to all your contacts.
Thank you very much,
Gretta
Gretta McCarron - Community Water Officer
Local Authority Waters and Communities Office
Oifig an Údaráis Áitiúil um Uiscí agus Pobail
m. 085 808 5756
e. gmccarron@lawco.ie
Covering Louth, Monaghan and Cavan Local Authority areas
www.lawco.ie
www.watersandcommunities.ie
www.catchments.ie
PPN Newsletter for Autumn: YOUR PHOTOS NEEDED!!!
Cavan PPN brings out a quarterly newsletter for all the community groups in the county. For this Autumn we want to deliver a colourful photographic newsletter on the fairs, festivals and celebrations of County Cavan over the summer. If you were a part of or attended these events please send us on a photo or two with your name and/or name of people in the photo if you have them. Thanks
OUR PUBLIC CONSULTATION FEEDBACKS
Over the past 4 weeks our Worker Daniel has gone out to community groups to host public consultations called Linkage Groups which serve as a method of gaining public engagement and conversation. The following consultations took place with details included of each.
Heritage Forum
13/7/17
Old Reference Library, Cavan Town.
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Drumgoon Hill Maintenance & Support Committee, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Cavan Tidy Towns, Birdwatch Cavan, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Drumlin Academy, Community Resilience Cavan, CavanSEC, Killeshandra Tidy Towns.
Graveyards
In Heritage Plan 2006-2011 4.13 there was an action to identify, compile and digitalize graveyards for public awareness. What was the action on this?
Heritage Plan
The Heritage Plan 2006-2011 seems to have disappeared without a review of its actions or a sequel to the plan. Where has the heritage work derived its community engagement or workplans from since 2012?
Adoption Plans
Can local community groups adopt heritage sites to maintain them when the Local Authority does perhaps an annual clean of the site?
Marketing
Cavan seems to be lacking an adequate marketing strategy. This Is Cavan is very undefined and loose. Something hinging on the folklore, drumlin topography and wetlands element of the county would be unique and brilliant. England’s Lakelands do this in the UK and Estonia’s Fenlands in Europe. “Wetlands Paradise”
Abbeylands
Local Community Groups eager to find out what the progress is on Cavan Town’s most identifiable heritage site? 5 years on and the Abbeylands are still closed.
Bridge Street River
The scene left & right on the Bridge St bridge is rather dull. Some riverside development involving the dippers and sandmartins (there is a fund) would help to brighten it and identify biodiversity.
Guides
A brief guide or “10 things to see in Cavan” would be very beneficial to the county.
Environment
13/7/17
Old Reference Library, Cavan Town.
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Drumgoon Hill Maintainence & Support Committee, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Cavan Tidy Towns, Birdwatch Cavan, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Drumlin Academy, Community Resilience Cavan, CavanSEC, Killeshandra Tidy Towns.
Tidy towns
Many Tidy Towns are excluded from registering as environment groups as per the recommendations of The Environment Pillar. Due to the increasing amount of environmental criteria in the Tidy Towns process it was recommended the PPN request the Pillar withdraw this veto.
Heritage Week
Can CavanPPN lend some support to promotion of Environmental projects at Heritage Week. Daniel Downey to liaise with Heather Bothwell on same.
Green Lake Park
Could the lake area be identified as an Eco-Pollinator site?
Participants also felt it was very ready for a Phase II to develop the area more. The PPN could do a walkability study of the surrounding area in collaboration with the Town Team to assess the potential.
Promotion of locals as Green Lake Stewards seen as key to successful buy-in.
Potential of managing the roadside hedge to allow greater view-ability.
All Island Pollinator Plan
Many Counties are signing up to the All Island Pollinator Plan. Could Cavan County Council see about also adopting this plan and designating certain areas for Eco-Pollinator sites?
Wetlands
Engage the Wetlands initiatives for Cavan and begin selling Cavan as a “Blue County” or a “Wetlands Paradise” ensuring out wetlands and bogs are preserved and looked after.
Nature Talks & Walks
PPN & Council: Could they collaborate on putting on public walks and talks on wildlife and nature for the general public. There is a distinct lack of education workshops for wildlife in Cavan. Engaging birdwatch, bee keepers, Wildlife Assoc etc. would be beneficial in this.
Breffni Integrated Representation
Heather Bothwell of Birdwatch Ireland Cavan Branch volunteered to represent community interests on Breffni Integrated Local Development Company. This was proposed by Tereasa Walsh and seconded by Brian Allen.
Sports
13/7/17
Old Reference Library, Cavan Town.
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Drumgoon Hill Maintainence & Support Committee, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Cavan Tidy Towns, Birdwatch Cavan, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Drumlin Academy, Community Resilience Cavan, CavanSEC, Killeshandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Bowls Network, Cavan Community Games.
Item
Details
Alternatives
Groups highlighted the need to promote alternative sports outside of soccer, Gaelic and rugby. This might help people to engage more in sports in general.
Sports Facilities
The Sports Facilities Plan which was produced last year was not very widely distributed. Could a copy be sent to the PPN for general distribution to community groups?
Sports Partnership
Participants hailed the great work done by Cavan Sports Partnership, particularly in the arena of supporting older persons activities.
Community
Representative
As per the advertised post, there was only one expression of interest for the role of PPN Community Sports Partnership Representative and this was Christy Quinn who represents Cavan Community Games. He was unanimously accepted as Sports Partnership rep.
Transport & Infrastructure SPC
& Local Link Linkage Groups
20/7/17
Realtog Centre, Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan.
Groups Represented
Older Person’s Council, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, The Realtog Centre, Kilnaleck Social Services, Crosserlough ICA, Cavan Disability Network, East Cavan PTAA, Family Carers Cavan, CavanPPN.
Local Link Timetables
Insertion of timetables at bus stops would be useful
Local Link Passes
Some services are disjointed, e.g. requiring various buses to connect to a destination which costs as much as a taxi. Could a day/week pass be an option for people?
Local Link Ads
Encourage branding of events and services by organisations to encourage use of Local Link e.g. Heatons local ads etc.
Local Link Commuters
Advertising as Local Link as a support to commuters to meet their connecting buses from rural areas outside the Bus Eireann routes.
Kilnaleck Local Link
Kilnaleck was found to have the highest rate of pre-6.30am commuters in the state at 18%. Could an early service of Local Link be extended to Kilnaleck. It would be used.
Awareness of other routes
Very low public awareness of Local Links active outside the pilot scheme. People assume Local Link is only Ballyhaise-Cavan-Ballinagh.
Park & Ride
Increasing demand for a park and ride facility for commuters to leave their cars in a secure location to bus into Dublin. This would increase incentives to commute while decreasing demand on city congestion and/or inward migration to cities.
Hedge Cutting
Clarity required for members of the public on what allowances there are to cut dangerous hedges during the no-hedge cutting season.
Local Link
Participants commended the great work of CMTCU and hailed it as a great benefit to the county. Local participants eagerly await its extension to Kilnaleck.
Tour Buses
Identification & development of a bus park would assist tours coming to Cavan. At present there is no location where tour buses can set passengers down and drive to collect them. This would greatly assist receiving tourism to the county town.
Pedestrian Crossings
Proximity to junction at Con Smith Park-Drumalee turn off to the pedestrian crossing is presenting extreme dangers to pedestrians and drivers.
Pedestrian crossing desperately required near the bus station to assist passengers crossing into Cavan Town. Identification of potential crossing at old Garda barracks. It would be cheaper than diverting outdoor Council stall for 2 hours 5 days per week from other duties as a lollipop man for the 2 schools & station.
CMTCU Reps
A participant did inform us that 2 Cavan members have resigned from CMTCU due to personal commitments. PPN will require 2 reps to replace as soon as possible.
Childcare
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Governance
Greater accountability and uniform approach to childcare services required. Training for childcare services in Good Governance & responsibilities required.
Costs
Childcare costs are so prohibitive as to coax parents away from potential employment opportunities. Tax relief or greater subsidy on childcare services extremely urgent.
Play Areas
Lack of safe/secure play areas in public arena. Development of a safe play area in each population centre essential. Development of playgrounds in every estate. Playground in Kilnavara Cavan identified as falling apart and in need of assistance.
Mental Health
Emotional development and teaching should start to be introduced at earlier ages. Local deployment would lead the way in this and be a preempting removal of mental imbalance among young people as they grow.
Child Protection
Although very required it’s complex bureaucratic nature prohibits any volunteers from engaging with youth and supporting youth activities. There is an avoidance issue in volunteer circles as a result of (i) workload to cover themselves and (ii) paranoia of child protection as being so thorough as to almost be accusing volunteers of being potential criminals.
Outdoor Care
Children in Ireland spending far too much time in indoor education and care. Encourage partnerships with local forest schools and outdoor groups to inspire children at an early age to get out and about.
Housing & Social SPC
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Social Housing
Greater social housing developments required urgently. Waiting lists nationally are terrible but that should not provide locally responsible authorities a reason to shrug responsibility as a “national issue”.
Reduce the waiting lists and build in flexibility on the waiting list in regard to high priority cases.
Emergency Accomodation
No emergency accommodation in County Cavan. Those who are made homeless or victims of domestic violence are “moved on” after being put up in local hotels/B&B’s. This is against our duty-to-care as a society. When the Saint Vincent de Paul night shelter closed it should have been made an emergency priority to reopen it. What provisions are being made to reopen it and to care for our local people in need of emergency accommodation (rather than being moved on).
Derelict Housing
Potential to serve notice to owners of derelict buildings for the upkeep of same. On failure to do so, perhaps an agreement can be reached to jointly upgrade the property to become of use where the use thereof repays the Council for its contributions. Potential long term partnership with a fiscal return and positive impact in localities.
Older Persons
Older Persons demographics are growing more than any other. Therefore, there is an extreme need for Older Persons supports in areas. Planning should require in-built supports for older persons. Recreational areas for older persons in all estates and seats and benches in same.
Key Services
Key services in areas are almost entirely Mon-Fri 9-5. It’s time to smash open the office-timetabled format of care and lobby care providers to be more flexible in their services. It was also identified that many GPs are servicing nursing care homes and therefore absent from their clinics for long periods of the working week. This means a skeleton crew in many clinics if they are lucky.
Finally, the absence of Social Services during key times when they are needed (weekends and nights) is entirely unfair to their service users. “It’s like only selling ice cream in winter.”
Joint Policing Committee
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Community Liaison
Strong need for a community Liaison officer for the Gardai. There was one present in Cavan Town and his visibility and engagement encouraged young people and locals to build a relationship with the service. At present there is a gulf of disengagement perceived between the general community and Gardai.
Joint PPN-Garda workshops in 2018 to “introduce the service” to communities would be beneficial.
Visible Presence
It was identified that the simple “walk about” of Gardai in a local area is an incredible deterrent to potential crime. Drive arounds don’t hold the same visual presence as a person in uniform carrying out a walking patrol in urban areas of the county.
West Cavan
Distinct gap in policing services in West Cavan. Ballyconnel Garda Station now closed at night time and Manorhamilton downgraded so a vast swathe of the border region is now almost entirely unpatrolled.
Tax Collectors
There is a perception in light of decreasing visibility of Gardai on the streets but increased visibility of checks for tax and insurance that Garda Siochana are doing the job more of tax enforcers/collectors than crime preventers. 2 suggestions: (i) Dispel this idea with advertising or greater presence on streets or community talks and/or (ii) free Gardai from this job by having automatic fines for those not reinsuring/retaxing cars without declaring them off the road. Make it automated rather than diverting valuable staff to this job.
Hiring Admin Staff
Free up our Garda members to do what they’re good at by hiring administrative staff to undertake the paperwork which denies them time out in the community. Each Garda is an invaluable resource and any time spent doing paperwork for accountability-however needed-is time away from what they are best trained to do. i.e. misallocation of skillsets.
Community Empowerment
Just as text and community alert schemes seem to be working, perhaps community awareness projects could be deployed or developed to identify, train and support community volunteers to do walk abouts and support security and awareness in the local areas where Garda presence is lacking.
Drugs & Alcohol
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Data
More data on the impact of drugs and alcohol needs to be spread into the general community. For example, in the UK 55% of crime is related to drugs & alcohol. How much of an impact is that here and early intervention for youth will be the key to diffusing these crimes before they happen
Users
More understanding of drug users is needed. Perception of users as in need of help, rather than in need of punishment essential : “I’ve never met an addict yet who isn’t a loving person in need of love. They’re just in a bad place and need help” remarked one ex-addicts father.
Community Drugs Initiative
Engaged, educational and linked up drugs strategy required ON THE GROUND in Cavan. Most have been academic or ivory tower exercises by services and professionals without much engagement or empowering or local communities to tackle this issue. All agreed that drug & alcohol are the most distressing social issue in Cavan at the moment.
Fear
There is a genuine fear of reporting drug dealers due to potential reprisals. A greater advertising of the Garda Confidential Number is needed. There is fear of crime growing to feed the money needed by addicts, fear of violence as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and fear of needles and broken glass in areas that in previous generations where parks and play areas. Fear needs to be tackled by workshops in the community to encourage local people to take ownership of the areas to clean up, clean out and stand strong against these.
Treatment
Emphasis should be on treating the causes of addiction and not just the addiction itself. Social deprivation, depression, domestic violence are all contributing to rising levels of suicide, drug dependency and alcohol abuse.
Alcohol
Insist on plastic cups only in bars. There are far too many broken glasses smashed in public areas on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
A schools program to educate children on the dangers of excessive drinking would be of use.
Increase the age of consumption to 21?
Community Support Officer
Designate a community person in each village/housing estate/street as a go-to person with training in citizens information, basic counselling & to act as a liaison with other services on behalf of those areas.
Economic SPC
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
Price Changing
Some businesses are altering prices according to the popularity of events, increasing them when more people attend. This occurred during the Fleadh and at recent matches in Breifne Park and after certain times in drinking establishments. Suggestions have been made to have set prices on posters outside premises to secure people’s awareness of what that is and diminish the feeling that visitors are paying more for events and locals are being deprived of fair charges.
Beautiful But Expensive
It has been reported to participants by visiting tourists brought in by them that Cavan is quite expensive. It was suggested that package tours of the county with managed discounts be developed such as deployed in Roscommon between various sites who give a discount when visiting them. Could the PPN develop a brochure or package map and LCDC talk to the identified sites to arrange discount?
Insurance Costs
The cost of insurance is crippling. Business owners, particularly in the hospitality sector are savaged by these costs and participants urged people to raise these concerns with public representatives to drive a coherent campaign against the insurance company’s increases.
LCDC Linkage
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
LECP Awareness
Communication between LCDC and component parts not always smooth. When overviews are being conducted it would be beneficial to notify partners of LECP duties ahead of time.
Representational Confusion
There seems to be some confusion over community representation on the LCDC in regard to Older Persons sharing a post with Disability. Clarity on what the terms of reference and rotation of same would be helpful. It was also suggested that seats not taken up (unions) be taken by more active groups, such as giving Older Persons and Disability full representation.
Peace Fund
There were some queries over the timeline and structure of the forthcoming Peace Fund. Could the LCDC forward updated info to the PPN?
Greenway Supports
It was deemed essential to begin animating and deploying funding to support Greenway orientated businesses in the area of the new Greenway such as bike rental services, orienteering and other tour related services along the track. Plopping a Greenway in alone is not the way to generate success, it has to be built upon.
Tourism Forum
It was suggested that a Community Tourism Forum be established as a link in with the Council via the PPN. This would host quarterly public meetings to get people’s ideas on tourism development and to show interest and engagement with the public on tourism strategies for the county.
Breffni Integrated
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
Item
Details
SICAP Parameters
Can the parameters of SICAP be widened under the second phase? It was suggested that excluding certain members of society (older persons) was socially excluding, particularly for a Social Inclusion Activation Program. If the reason given is that older persons can’t be job activated that SICAP is not a Social Inclusion program but a jobs activation program.
Use of SICAP
Is there any way SICAP can be used to assist with LEADER animation? SICAP could very well be deployed for animating social inclusion groups to making funding applications through skills and group building techniques.
Breffni Promotion
Participants felt that Breffni Integrated’s online presence is almost non-existent and that the website is barely functional. Although the staff are to be commended on their work the PR of the company is severely lacking. Stories of success, social media updates and engagement and other methods of online outreach can only manage to verify the value of Breffni and SICAP.
LEADER
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
Match Funding
It was highlighted that there is a lack of match funding awareness and often this puts off many groups from applying, even with animation workshops being deployed by the PPN. The limitations of match funding were also discussed
Pre-Funding Costs
One of the most off-putting elements discovered in the LEADER process was the incurring of costs for items such as planning etc to have for the application prior to the positive outcome of that application. This was seen as grossly unfair and should be changed immediately.
Open vs Closed Calls
There was a failure to communicate the idea of Closed Calls not being the close of LEADER. Clarity was lacking in many advertising posts and groups often felt that LEADER was closing when that specific call only was closing. Have clarity or ditch the process.
Aim of Fund
LEADER is advertised for “hard to reach communities” but these are exactly the groups who have trouble making and managing applications due to a lack of capacity or animation in the community. It was suggested that an animation worker be hired as outreach and that animation be built into the process of LEADER. Previously it had been suggested that it was the PPN’s job to provide animation but this is not part of the PPN remit nor possible with one worker on top of the core PPN work.
Costings
The length of time in the application process has sometimes led costings to increase from the time of application to the deployment of the project. This must be taken into account.
Simplified
Participants raised the point that attending previous LEADER consultations a simplified process was raised as being required in the absence of groups being animated or capacity-built to make these complicated projects work. Instead the process has become more complex with applications for applications (EOI’s) and then a lengthy application and interview process, all without prior animation which leads previously unapplied groups discouraged from applying. On top of the Closed/Open call confusion it would seem that LEADER has become even more distant from the simplification suggested at consultations in previous years.
Despite this, participants praised the good work of the staff in supporting those who make applications.
Heritage Forum
13/7/17
Old Reference Library, Cavan Town.
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Drumgoon Hill Maintenance & Support Committee, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Cavan Tidy Towns, Birdwatch Cavan, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Drumlin Academy, Community Resilience Cavan, CavanSEC, Killeshandra Tidy Towns.
Graveyards
In Heritage Plan 2006-2011 4.13 there was an action to identify, compile and digitalize graveyards for public awareness. What was the action on this?
- Are there groups identified to carry out audits of graveyards?
- Can a recording form be send out to these groups?
- Can a someone in library/genealogy services be identified as the graveyard liaison person with these groups?
Heritage Plan
The Heritage Plan 2006-2011 seems to have disappeared without a review of its actions or a sequel to the plan. Where has the heritage work derived its community engagement or workplans from since 2012?
Adoption Plans
Can local community groups adopt heritage sites to maintain them when the Local Authority does perhaps an annual clean of the site?
Marketing
Cavan seems to be lacking an adequate marketing strategy. This Is Cavan is very undefined and loose. Something hinging on the folklore, drumlin topography and wetlands element of the county would be unique and brilliant. England’s Lakelands do this in the UK and Estonia’s Fenlands in Europe. “Wetlands Paradise”
Abbeylands
Local Community Groups eager to find out what the progress is on Cavan Town’s most identifiable heritage site? 5 years on and the Abbeylands are still closed.
Bridge Street River
The scene left & right on the Bridge St bridge is rather dull. Some riverside development involving the dippers and sandmartins (there is a fund) would help to brighten it and identify biodiversity.
Guides
A brief guide or “10 things to see in Cavan” would be very beneficial to the county.
Environment
13/7/17
Old Reference Library, Cavan Town.
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Drumgoon Hill Maintainence & Support Committee, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Cavan Tidy Towns, Birdwatch Cavan, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Drumlin Academy, Community Resilience Cavan, CavanSEC, Killeshandra Tidy Towns.
Tidy towns
Many Tidy Towns are excluded from registering as environment groups as per the recommendations of The Environment Pillar. Due to the increasing amount of environmental criteria in the Tidy Towns process it was recommended the PPN request the Pillar withdraw this veto.
Heritage Week
Can CavanPPN lend some support to promotion of Environmental projects at Heritage Week. Daniel Downey to liaise with Heather Bothwell on same.
Green Lake Park
Could the lake area be identified as an Eco-Pollinator site?
Participants also felt it was very ready for a Phase II to develop the area more. The PPN could do a walkability study of the surrounding area in collaboration with the Town Team to assess the potential.
Promotion of locals as Green Lake Stewards seen as key to successful buy-in.
Potential of managing the roadside hedge to allow greater view-ability.
All Island Pollinator Plan
Many Counties are signing up to the All Island Pollinator Plan. Could Cavan County Council see about also adopting this plan and designating certain areas for Eco-Pollinator sites?
Wetlands
Engage the Wetlands initiatives for Cavan and begin selling Cavan as a “Blue County” or a “Wetlands Paradise” ensuring out wetlands and bogs are preserved and looked after.
Nature Talks & Walks
PPN & Council: Could they collaborate on putting on public walks and talks on wildlife and nature for the general public. There is a distinct lack of education workshops for wildlife in Cavan. Engaging birdwatch, bee keepers, Wildlife Assoc etc. would be beneficial in this.
Breffni Integrated Representation
Heather Bothwell of Birdwatch Ireland Cavan Branch volunteered to represent community interests on Breffni Integrated Local Development Company. This was proposed by Tereasa Walsh and seconded by Brian Allen.
Sports
13/7/17
Old Reference Library, Cavan Town.
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Drumgoon Hill Maintainence & Support Committee, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Cavan Tidy Towns, Birdwatch Cavan, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Drumlin Academy, Community Resilience Cavan, CavanSEC, Killeshandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Bowls Network, Cavan Community Games.
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Details
Alternatives
Groups highlighted the need to promote alternative sports outside of soccer, Gaelic and rugby. This might help people to engage more in sports in general.
Sports Facilities
The Sports Facilities Plan which was produced last year was not very widely distributed. Could a copy be sent to the PPN for general distribution to community groups?
Sports Partnership
Participants hailed the great work done by Cavan Sports Partnership, particularly in the arena of supporting older persons activities.
Community
Representative
As per the advertised post, there was only one expression of interest for the role of PPN Community Sports Partnership Representative and this was Christy Quinn who represents Cavan Community Games. He was unanimously accepted as Sports Partnership rep.
Transport & Infrastructure SPC
& Local Link Linkage Groups
20/7/17
Realtog Centre, Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan.
Groups Represented
Older Person’s Council, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, The Realtog Centre, Kilnaleck Social Services, Crosserlough ICA, Cavan Disability Network, East Cavan PTAA, Family Carers Cavan, CavanPPN.
Local Link Timetables
Insertion of timetables at bus stops would be useful
Local Link Passes
Some services are disjointed, e.g. requiring various buses to connect to a destination which costs as much as a taxi. Could a day/week pass be an option for people?
Local Link Ads
Encourage branding of events and services by organisations to encourage use of Local Link e.g. Heatons local ads etc.
Local Link Commuters
Advertising as Local Link as a support to commuters to meet their connecting buses from rural areas outside the Bus Eireann routes.
Kilnaleck Local Link
Kilnaleck was found to have the highest rate of pre-6.30am commuters in the state at 18%. Could an early service of Local Link be extended to Kilnaleck. It would be used.
Awareness of other routes
Very low public awareness of Local Links active outside the pilot scheme. People assume Local Link is only Ballyhaise-Cavan-Ballinagh.
Park & Ride
Increasing demand for a park and ride facility for commuters to leave their cars in a secure location to bus into Dublin. This would increase incentives to commute while decreasing demand on city congestion and/or inward migration to cities.
Hedge Cutting
Clarity required for members of the public on what allowances there are to cut dangerous hedges during the no-hedge cutting season.
Local Link
Participants commended the great work of CMTCU and hailed it as a great benefit to the county. Local participants eagerly await its extension to Kilnaleck.
Tour Buses
Identification & development of a bus park would assist tours coming to Cavan. At present there is no location where tour buses can set passengers down and drive to collect them. This would greatly assist receiving tourism to the county town.
Pedestrian Crossings
Proximity to junction at Con Smith Park-Drumalee turn off to the pedestrian crossing is presenting extreme dangers to pedestrians and drivers.
Pedestrian crossing desperately required near the bus station to assist passengers crossing into Cavan Town. Identification of potential crossing at old Garda barracks. It would be cheaper than diverting outdoor Council stall for 2 hours 5 days per week from other duties as a lollipop man for the 2 schools & station.
CMTCU Reps
A participant did inform us that 2 Cavan members have resigned from CMTCU due to personal commitments. PPN will require 2 reps to replace as soon as possible.
Childcare
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Governance
Greater accountability and uniform approach to childcare services required. Training for childcare services in Good Governance & responsibilities required.
Costs
Childcare costs are so prohibitive as to coax parents away from potential employment opportunities. Tax relief or greater subsidy on childcare services extremely urgent.
Play Areas
Lack of safe/secure play areas in public arena. Development of a safe play area in each population centre essential. Development of playgrounds in every estate. Playground in Kilnavara Cavan identified as falling apart and in need of assistance.
Mental Health
Emotional development and teaching should start to be introduced at earlier ages. Local deployment would lead the way in this and be a preempting removal of mental imbalance among young people as they grow.
Child Protection
Although very required it’s complex bureaucratic nature prohibits any volunteers from engaging with youth and supporting youth activities. There is an avoidance issue in volunteer circles as a result of (i) workload to cover themselves and (ii) paranoia of child protection as being so thorough as to almost be accusing volunteers of being potential criminals.
Outdoor Care
Children in Ireland spending far too much time in indoor education and care. Encourage partnerships with local forest schools and outdoor groups to inspire children at an early age to get out and about.
Housing & Social SPC
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Social Housing
Greater social housing developments required urgently. Waiting lists nationally are terrible but that should not provide locally responsible authorities a reason to shrug responsibility as a “national issue”.
Reduce the waiting lists and build in flexibility on the waiting list in regard to high priority cases.
Emergency Accomodation
No emergency accommodation in County Cavan. Those who are made homeless or victims of domestic violence are “moved on” after being put up in local hotels/B&B’s. This is against our duty-to-care as a society. When the Saint Vincent de Paul night shelter closed it should have been made an emergency priority to reopen it. What provisions are being made to reopen it and to care for our local people in need of emergency accommodation (rather than being moved on).
Derelict Housing
Potential to serve notice to owners of derelict buildings for the upkeep of same. On failure to do so, perhaps an agreement can be reached to jointly upgrade the property to become of use where the use thereof repays the Council for its contributions. Potential long term partnership with a fiscal return and positive impact in localities.
Older Persons
Older Persons demographics are growing more than any other. Therefore, there is an extreme need for Older Persons supports in areas. Planning should require in-built supports for older persons. Recreational areas for older persons in all estates and seats and benches in same.
Key Services
Key services in areas are almost entirely Mon-Fri 9-5. It’s time to smash open the office-timetabled format of care and lobby care providers to be more flexible in their services. It was also identified that many GPs are servicing nursing care homes and therefore absent from their clinics for long periods of the working week. This means a skeleton crew in many clinics if they are lucky.
Finally, the absence of Social Services during key times when they are needed (weekends and nights) is entirely unfair to their service users. “It’s like only selling ice cream in winter.”
Joint Policing Committee
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Community Liaison
Strong need for a community Liaison officer for the Gardai. There was one present in Cavan Town and his visibility and engagement encouraged young people and locals to build a relationship with the service. At present there is a gulf of disengagement perceived between the general community and Gardai.
Joint PPN-Garda workshops in 2018 to “introduce the service” to communities would be beneficial.
Visible Presence
It was identified that the simple “walk about” of Gardai in a local area is an incredible deterrent to potential crime. Drive arounds don’t hold the same visual presence as a person in uniform carrying out a walking patrol in urban areas of the county.
West Cavan
Distinct gap in policing services in West Cavan. Ballyconnel Garda Station now closed at night time and Manorhamilton downgraded so a vast swathe of the border region is now almost entirely unpatrolled.
Tax Collectors
There is a perception in light of decreasing visibility of Gardai on the streets but increased visibility of checks for tax and insurance that Garda Siochana are doing the job more of tax enforcers/collectors than crime preventers. 2 suggestions: (i) Dispel this idea with advertising or greater presence on streets or community talks and/or (ii) free Gardai from this job by having automatic fines for those not reinsuring/retaxing cars without declaring them off the road. Make it automated rather than diverting valuable staff to this job.
Hiring Admin Staff
Free up our Garda members to do what they’re good at by hiring administrative staff to undertake the paperwork which denies them time out in the community. Each Garda is an invaluable resource and any time spent doing paperwork for accountability-however needed-is time away from what they are best trained to do. i.e. misallocation of skillsets.
Community Empowerment
Just as text and community alert schemes seem to be working, perhaps community awareness projects could be deployed or developed to identify, train and support community volunteers to do walk abouts and support security and awareness in the local areas where Garda presence is lacking.
Drugs & Alcohol
27/7/17
Tullacmongan Resource Centre
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Monaghan PPN, Cavan Disability Network, Joint Policing Committee, Belturbet Drama Group, Older Person’s Council, Tearman Group, Drumalee Residents, Cavan Family Support, Drugs & Alcohol Taskforce, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Tullacmongan Resource Centre, Tullacmongan Women’s Group, Cavan Golden Oldies, Tullacmongan FRC, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Community Radio.
Data
More data on the impact of drugs and alcohol needs to be spread into the general community. For example, in the UK 55% of crime is related to drugs & alcohol. How much of an impact is that here and early intervention for youth will be the key to diffusing these crimes before they happen
Users
More understanding of drug users is needed. Perception of users as in need of help, rather than in need of punishment essential : “I’ve never met an addict yet who isn’t a loving person in need of love. They’re just in a bad place and need help” remarked one ex-addicts father.
Community Drugs Initiative
Engaged, educational and linked up drugs strategy required ON THE GROUND in Cavan. Most have been academic or ivory tower exercises by services and professionals without much engagement or empowering or local communities to tackle this issue. All agreed that drug & alcohol are the most distressing social issue in Cavan at the moment.
Fear
There is a genuine fear of reporting drug dealers due to potential reprisals. A greater advertising of the Garda Confidential Number is needed. There is fear of crime growing to feed the money needed by addicts, fear of violence as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and fear of needles and broken glass in areas that in previous generations where parks and play areas. Fear needs to be tackled by workshops in the community to encourage local people to take ownership of the areas to clean up, clean out and stand strong against these.
Treatment
Emphasis should be on treating the causes of addiction and not just the addiction itself. Social deprivation, depression, domestic violence are all contributing to rising levels of suicide, drug dependency and alcohol abuse.
Alcohol
Insist on plastic cups only in bars. There are far too many broken glasses smashed in public areas on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
A schools program to educate children on the dangers of excessive drinking would be of use.
Increase the age of consumption to 21?
Community Support Officer
Designate a community person in each village/housing estate/street as a go-to person with training in citizens information, basic counselling & to act as a liaison with other services on behalf of those areas.
Economic SPC
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
Price Changing
Some businesses are altering prices according to the popularity of events, increasing them when more people attend. This occurred during the Fleadh and at recent matches in Breifne Park and after certain times in drinking establishments. Suggestions have been made to have set prices on posters outside premises to secure people’s awareness of what that is and diminish the feeling that visitors are paying more for events and locals are being deprived of fair charges.
Beautiful But Expensive
It has been reported to participants by visiting tourists brought in by them that Cavan is quite expensive. It was suggested that package tours of the county with managed discounts be developed such as deployed in Roscommon between various sites who give a discount when visiting them. Could the PPN develop a brochure or package map and LCDC talk to the identified sites to arrange discount?
Insurance Costs
The cost of insurance is crippling. Business owners, particularly in the hospitality sector are savaged by these costs and participants urged people to raise these concerns with public representatives to drive a coherent campaign against the insurance company’s increases.
LCDC Linkage
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
LECP Awareness
Communication between LCDC and component parts not always smooth. When overviews are being conducted it would be beneficial to notify partners of LECP duties ahead of time.
Representational Confusion
There seems to be some confusion over community representation on the LCDC in regard to Older Persons sharing a post with Disability. Clarity on what the terms of reference and rotation of same would be helpful. It was also suggested that seats not taken up (unions) be taken by more active groups, such as giving Older Persons and Disability full representation.
Peace Fund
There were some queries over the timeline and structure of the forthcoming Peace Fund. Could the LCDC forward updated info to the PPN?
Greenway Supports
It was deemed essential to begin animating and deploying funding to support Greenway orientated businesses in the area of the new Greenway such as bike rental services, orienteering and other tour related services along the track. Plopping a Greenway in alone is not the way to generate success, it has to be built upon.
Tourism Forum
It was suggested that a Community Tourism Forum be established as a link in with the Council via the PPN. This would host quarterly public meetings to get people’s ideas on tourism development and to show interest and engagement with the public on tourism strategies for the county.
Breffni Integrated
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
Item
Details
SICAP Parameters
Can the parameters of SICAP be widened under the second phase? It was suggested that excluding certain members of society (older persons) was socially excluding, particularly for a Social Inclusion Activation Program. If the reason given is that older persons can’t be job activated that SICAP is not a Social Inclusion program but a jobs activation program.
Use of SICAP
Is there any way SICAP can be used to assist with LEADER animation? SICAP could very well be deployed for animating social inclusion groups to making funding applications through skills and group building techniques.
Breffni Promotion
Participants felt that Breffni Integrated’s online presence is almost non-existent and that the website is barely functional. Although the staff are to be commended on their work the PR of the company is severely lacking. Stories of success, social media updates and engagement and other methods of online outreach can only manage to verify the value of Breffni and SICAP.
LEADER
3/8/17
Old Reference Library
Groups Represented
CavanPPN, Cavan Disability Network, Kilnaleck Community Co-Op, Killsheandra Tidy Towns, Cavan Town Team, Community Resilience Cavan, Cavan Heritage Group, Cavan Town Men’s Shed.
Match Funding
It was highlighted that there is a lack of match funding awareness and often this puts off many groups from applying, even with animation workshops being deployed by the PPN. The limitations of match funding were also discussed
Pre-Funding Costs
One of the most off-putting elements discovered in the LEADER process was the incurring of costs for items such as planning etc to have for the application prior to the positive outcome of that application. This was seen as grossly unfair and should be changed immediately.
Open vs Closed Calls
There was a failure to communicate the idea of Closed Calls not being the close of LEADER. Clarity was lacking in many advertising posts and groups often felt that LEADER was closing when that specific call only was closing. Have clarity or ditch the process.
Aim of Fund
LEADER is advertised for “hard to reach communities” but these are exactly the groups who have trouble making and managing applications due to a lack of capacity or animation in the community. It was suggested that an animation worker be hired as outreach and that animation be built into the process of LEADER. Previously it had been suggested that it was the PPN’s job to provide animation but this is not part of the PPN remit nor possible with one worker on top of the core PPN work.
Costings
The length of time in the application process has sometimes led costings to increase from the time of application to the deployment of the project. This must be taken into account.
Simplified
Participants raised the point that attending previous LEADER consultations a simplified process was raised as being required in the absence of groups being animated or capacity-built to make these complicated projects work. Instead the process has become more complex with applications for applications (EOI’s) and then a lengthy application and interview process, all without prior animation which leads previously unapplied groups discouraged from applying. On top of the Closed/Open call confusion it would seem that LEADER has become even more distant from the simplification suggested at consultations in previous years.
Despite this, participants praised the good work of the staff in supporting those who make applications.
Parents of And Children with Disabilities Public Consultation
Wednesday July 19th 11am-3pm
Hotel Kilmore
Cavan and Monaghan Consultation event with Children and young people with disabilities and their parents / guardians / carers which is taking place next Wednesday 19th July in Hotel Kilmore, Dublin Road, Cavan.http://www.hotelkilmore.ie/
The event will run from 11am-3pm with lunch provided to all participants.
We have been linking with the Cavan Disability Network in relation to this event - please free to forward this to other interested parties or those linking with your own services that it would be relevant to as they would be welcome to attend.
The Consultation will inform both the Children and Young People Services Committees Children and Young People's Plan 2018-2021 for Cavan and Monaghan and the Cavan and Monaghan ETB Youth Work Plan 2018-2021.
The Consultation will seek participants views on:
We would ask that those planning to attend RSVP to ruth@sort-it-now.com as we need to confirm numbers for lunch.
The event will run from 11am-3pm with lunch provided to all participants.
We have been linking with the Cavan Disability Network in relation to this event - please free to forward this to other interested parties or those linking with your own services that it would be relevant to as they would be welcome to attend.
The Consultation will inform both the Children and Young People Services Committees Children and Young People's Plan 2018-2021 for Cavan and Monaghan and the Cavan and Monaghan ETB Youth Work Plan 2018-2021.
The Consultation will seek participants views on:
- What are the priorities issues that Children and Young People with disabilities in Cavan and Monaghan are dealing with?
- What are the gaps in supports available to Children and Young People with disabilities in Cavan and Monaghan?
- What experience do you have of services / supports that work well?
We would ask that those planning to attend RSVP to ruth@sort-it-now.com as we need to confirm numbers for lunch.
FUND OPEN
Measure 2: Life after caring
Measure 4: Pre-activation support for female Refugees
The closing date for receipt of applications is 3pm on Wednesday 26th July 2017.
See below link for all details: https://www.pobal.ie/FundingProgrammes/DormantAccountsFund/Pages/default.aspx?utm_content=buffer5b8a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Measure 2: Life after caring
Measure 4: Pre-activation support for female Refugees
The closing date for receipt of applications is 3pm on Wednesday 26th July 2017.
See below link for all details: https://www.pobal.ie/FundingProgrammes/DormantAccountsFund/Pages/default.aspx?utm_content=buffer5b8a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
2 New Community Representatives
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Heather Bothwell of Birdwatch Ireland Cavan representing environment on the Board of Directors of Breffni Integrated Ltd. and Christy Quinn of Community Games representing community on Sports Partnership. |
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A Change Of First Citizen
Congratulations to Councillor Paddy McDonald on succeeding Councillor Fergal Curtin as Cathaoirleach of County Cavan. Councillor Cutin's year as First Citizen was one of brilliance and leadership and we send him sincere thanks for his hard work and dedication. Succeeding him is Sinn Fein's Paddy McDonald of Bailieborough and we at CavanPPN wish him all our best for the year ahead.
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Welcome to the bumper Summer edition of the CavanPPN Newsletter. Within this you will find news on:
- Bounceback Youth Project
- StreetFeast 50euro support for hosts
- Cavan 2100 Sustainable Competition for Groups
- Report on the Community Support Seminar in May
- Upcoming Linkage Groups for people to participate in civic engagement
- News from the recent Older Person's Council AGM
- The 1st International Twinning of Men's Sheds between Cavan and Australia
- 2 new community representative positions now open!!!
- Cavan Online Radio has a very Ted-ish event coming up
- Local couple will run 3.2kms in all 32 counties for local charity SOSAD this weekend!!!
-Breffni Integrated is rolling out a valuable new Community Services Program
-Cavan Disability Network is hosting a brilliant Seminar in Cavan in June and hosted Minister McGrath in May
All this great news with photos and details for all! Dive in and enjoy the read below:
- Bounceback Youth Project
- StreetFeast 50euro support for hosts
- Cavan 2100 Sustainable Competition for Groups
- Report on the Community Support Seminar in May
- Upcoming Linkage Groups for people to participate in civic engagement
- News from the recent Older Person's Council AGM
- The 1st International Twinning of Men's Sheds between Cavan and Australia
- 2 new community representative positions now open!!!
- Cavan Online Radio has a very Ted-ish event coming up
- Local couple will run 3.2kms in all 32 counties for local charity SOSAD this weekend!!!
-Breffni Integrated is rolling out a valuable new Community Services Program
-Cavan Disability Network is hosting a brilliant Seminar in Cavan in June and hosted Minister McGrath in May
All this great news with photos and details for all! Dive in and enjoy the read below:
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HOST Your Local StreetFeast Now!
TOWN AND VILLAGE RENEWAL SCHEME: Cavan County Council is seeking expressions of interest from groups in Ballyjamesduff, Kingscourt, Belturbet, Mullagh, Ballyconnell, Arvagh, Butlersbridge, Kilnaleck, Blacklion, Swanlinbar, Lough Gowna, or Dowra who may have a suitable project for consideration under the scheme
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Community Focus: late April Supplementary Edition
Hello and welcome to your end of month edition of Community Focus from CavanPPN. In this edition we have lots of news but don't forget this is the final week for the Cathaoirleach Award nominations so get filling those forms as soon as you can to enable a well loved volunteer to get the thanks they deserve.
If you have any news to share to the 200+ groups we have registered then send it into us at cavanppn@gmail.com
1. Brightening Cavan
2. Apprenticeship Recruitment and Networking Event
3. West Cavan Youth Project
4. THE WHEEL ROLLS INTO CAVAN!!!
5. National Heritage Week 2017
6. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
7. Bounceback Youth Support
8. Cathaoirleach Awards
9. STREETFEAST
1. Brightening Cavan
Cavan Tidy Town Committee is organising a Spring Litter Clean Up Day in Cavan Town on Saturday 29th April. This event is being facilitated by Wilton Waste and is being supported by An Taisce, Cavan County Council, Cavan Chamber of Commerce and Tarpeys SuperValu.
High Vis vests, gloves, litter pickers, bags etc. will be available in the Main street car park behind the Farnham Arms Hotel from 9.00 a.m.
Community Groups are asked to preregister before Friday 28th April with Andy Pierce, c/o J&B Hope Ltd., 2 Bridge Street, Cavan, info@jandbhope.com or text 086 1705888. All preregistered Community Groups who take part in the Litter Clean-Up will be automatically entered into a Draw with a total prize fund of €500.
Please encourage family members, neighbours and friends to come along and support this event.
2. Apprenticeship Recruitment and Networking Event
Employers seeking to recruit apprentices are invited to an apprenticeship recruitment and networking event on Wednesday 3rd May from 5.30 pm to 8.00 pm in the Cavan Crystal Hotel. This is an opportunity for potential apprentices to meet employers.
Responsibility for apprenticeship provision has transferred from FAS to Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB). Employers interested in recruiting apprentices are invited to attend on the night, take a stand or meet with CMETB staff to discuss their requirements. For further details please contact Gaye McGuigan or Margaret Smith 049-4353922 gayemcguigan@cmetb.ie or margaretsmith@cmetb.ie
3. West Cavan Youth Project
A new youth project for 16-25 year olds who are unemployed is now up and running in West Cavan. Details are attached and can also be found onwww.westcavan.com . For more information contact Cathy the new youth worker.
4. THE WHEEL ROLLS INTO CAVAN!!!
The Wheel is a support and representative body connecting community and voluntary organisations and charities across Ireland. They are rolling out a new regional programme and as manager of Claremont Stadium I am working with them as Regional Champion for the Meath, Cavan and Louth area.
Following on from a successful first Regional Event held in Navan on the 7th of March, we are interested in hearing groups views on training and access to training.
In order to look at the possibility of regional training for the next training calendar we would value feedback from local groups and their input into the training sessions. This survey should take no longer that 5 minutes to fill in.
I will circulate the outcome of the survey to Louth PPN once completed.
Click HERE to start the survey
Please feel free to contact me on claremontmanager@eircom.net for any further queries or comments.
Kind regards Marjan
Marjan Boers
Centre Manager
5. National Heritage Week 2017
We’re preparing for National Heritage Week 2017 which will take place from 19-27 August and we’re making this the year we help more people learn about and enjoy Ireland’s nature.
We are encouraging environmental, social inclusion and voluntary groups across Ireland to take part as event organisers and participants. Heritage Week is the largest cultural event in Ireland with almost 1,000 organisations and individuals involved in hosting over 1,800 unique events in 2016. The week attracts an annual audience of approximately 430,000 people.
Please find attached our 100 Event Ideas Booklet (also available as Gaeilge). We would be grateful if you could share it with your Public Participation Network. We also have a limited supply of printed booklets, please let me know if you would like us to send you some.
Let us know how we can help you and your network get involved with Heritage Week 2017.
Kind regards,
Niamh
Niamh Donnellan
Heritage Week Project Manager
The Heritage Council
Church Lane, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Tel: 1850 200 878
Mobile: 087 6418440
Fax:+353(0)567770788
www.heritageweek.ie
19-27 August 2017
6. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
Applications are now being invited by the HSE for National Lottery Funding Grants.
This funding is distributed by the HSE each year to community based groups and voluntary organisations under the Respite Care Grant Scheme and the National Lottery Grant Scheme.
Groups and organisations involved in the provision of Health and Personal Social Services can apply for once off funding of between €500 and €10,000 for suitable projects.
The HSE is advertising in regional newspapers over the coming weeks for applications, and you may wish to share this notification among your professional or local networks.
All of the information required, including application forms, is now available on www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
Completed Application Forms must be returned to the local Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO).
Closing Date for Applications – 17:00 on Friday 26th May 2017.
Applicants will be advised as to the outcome of their application no later than Thursday 31.08.2017.
For more, please visit www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
7. Bounceback
The Bounce Back Youth Service is a new service aimed at the young people in the areas of Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Bailieborough within the age bracket of 10 -24 years of age. More info on attached forms
8. Cathaoirleach Awards
The County Chairman will be awarding, recognizing and celebrating community on May 26th in a very worthwhile and enjoyable ceremony that will give something back to the volunteers of County Cavan. The awards are driven by nominations from YOU which are attached and are an opportunity to raise the recognition and thanks to someone or group deserves in your local area. The deadline is the end of this week so get filling those forms (attached below)
9. STREETFEAST
Street Feast is a day of local lunches across Ireland on 11th June, hosted by you and your neighbours. They can be anywhere really — out on the street, in a local park or in your front garden.
There are lots of good reasons to have a Street Feast, but it's really just a great excuse to eat great food, celebrate your local community and meet new people who live near you.
see www.streetfeast.ie for more
If you have any news to share to the 200+ groups we have registered then send it into us at cavanppn@gmail.com
1. Brightening Cavan
2. Apprenticeship Recruitment and Networking Event
3. West Cavan Youth Project
4. THE WHEEL ROLLS INTO CAVAN!!!
5. National Heritage Week 2017
6. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
7. Bounceback Youth Support
8. Cathaoirleach Awards
9. STREETFEAST
1. Brightening Cavan
Cavan Tidy Town Committee is organising a Spring Litter Clean Up Day in Cavan Town on Saturday 29th April. This event is being facilitated by Wilton Waste and is being supported by An Taisce, Cavan County Council, Cavan Chamber of Commerce and Tarpeys SuperValu.
High Vis vests, gloves, litter pickers, bags etc. will be available in the Main street car park behind the Farnham Arms Hotel from 9.00 a.m.
Community Groups are asked to preregister before Friday 28th April with Andy Pierce, c/o J&B Hope Ltd., 2 Bridge Street, Cavan, info@jandbhope.com or text 086 1705888. All preregistered Community Groups who take part in the Litter Clean-Up will be automatically entered into a Draw with a total prize fund of €500.
Please encourage family members, neighbours and friends to come along and support this event.
2. Apprenticeship Recruitment and Networking Event
Employers seeking to recruit apprentices are invited to an apprenticeship recruitment and networking event on Wednesday 3rd May from 5.30 pm to 8.00 pm in the Cavan Crystal Hotel. This is an opportunity for potential apprentices to meet employers.
Responsibility for apprenticeship provision has transferred from FAS to Cavan and Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB). Employers interested in recruiting apprentices are invited to attend on the night, take a stand or meet with CMETB staff to discuss their requirements. For further details please contact Gaye McGuigan or Margaret Smith 049-4353922 gayemcguigan@cmetb.ie or margaretsmith@cmetb.ie
3. West Cavan Youth Project
A new youth project for 16-25 year olds who are unemployed is now up and running in West Cavan. Details are attached and can also be found onwww.westcavan.com . For more information contact Cathy the new youth worker.
4. THE WHEEL ROLLS INTO CAVAN!!!
The Wheel is a support and representative body connecting community and voluntary organisations and charities across Ireland. They are rolling out a new regional programme and as manager of Claremont Stadium I am working with them as Regional Champion for the Meath, Cavan and Louth area.
Following on from a successful first Regional Event held in Navan on the 7th of March, we are interested in hearing groups views on training and access to training.
In order to look at the possibility of regional training for the next training calendar we would value feedback from local groups and their input into the training sessions. This survey should take no longer that 5 minutes to fill in.
I will circulate the outcome of the survey to Louth PPN once completed.
Click HERE to start the survey
Please feel free to contact me on claremontmanager@eircom.net for any further queries or comments.
Kind regards Marjan
Marjan Boers
Centre Manager
5. National Heritage Week 2017
We’re preparing for National Heritage Week 2017 which will take place from 19-27 August and we’re making this the year we help more people learn about and enjoy Ireland’s nature.
We are encouraging environmental, social inclusion and voluntary groups across Ireland to take part as event organisers and participants. Heritage Week is the largest cultural event in Ireland with almost 1,000 organisations and individuals involved in hosting over 1,800 unique events in 2016. The week attracts an annual audience of approximately 430,000 people.
Please find attached our 100 Event Ideas Booklet (also available as Gaeilge). We would be grateful if you could share it with your Public Participation Network. We also have a limited supply of printed booklets, please let me know if you would like us to send you some.
Let us know how we can help you and your network get involved with Heritage Week 2017.
Kind regards,
Niamh
Niamh Donnellan
Heritage Week Project Manager
The Heritage Council
Church Lane, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Tel: 1850 200 878
Mobile: 087 6418440
Fax:+353(0)567770788
www.heritageweek.ie
19-27 August 2017
6. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
Applications are now being invited by the HSE for National Lottery Funding Grants.
This funding is distributed by the HSE each year to community based groups and voluntary organisations under the Respite Care Grant Scheme and the National Lottery Grant Scheme.
Groups and organisations involved in the provision of Health and Personal Social Services can apply for once off funding of between €500 and €10,000 for suitable projects.
The HSE is advertising in regional newspapers over the coming weeks for applications, and you may wish to share this notification among your professional or local networks.
All of the information required, including application forms, is now available on www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
Completed Application Forms must be returned to the local Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO).
Closing Date for Applications – 17:00 on Friday 26th May 2017.
Applicants will be advised as to the outcome of their application no later than Thursday 31.08.2017.
For more, please visit www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
7. Bounceback
The Bounce Back Youth Service is a new service aimed at the young people in the areas of Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Bailieborough within the age bracket of 10 -24 years of age. More info on attached forms
8. Cathaoirleach Awards
The County Chairman will be awarding, recognizing and celebrating community on May 26th in a very worthwhile and enjoyable ceremony that will give something back to the volunteers of County Cavan. The awards are driven by nominations from YOU which are attached and are an opportunity to raise the recognition and thanks to someone or group deserves in your local area. The deadline is the end of this week so get filling those forms (attached below)
9. STREETFEAST
Street Feast is a day of local lunches across Ireland on 11th June, hosted by you and your neighbours. They can be anywhere really — out on the street, in a local park or in your front garden.
There are lots of good reasons to have a Street Feast, but it's really just a great excuse to eat great food, celebrate your local community and meet new people who live near you.
see www.streetfeast.ie for more
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CLÁR programme for the First Response Support Measure. |
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To whom it may concern,
Please see Press Release below regarding the launch of the 2017 CLÁR funding programme. This year there is an allocation of €0.75million under the CLÁR programme for the First Response Support Measure. This measure will be operated directly by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and is open to formally recognised organisations/groups that operate entirely on a voluntary basis and are involved in emergency rescue/first response efforts. We would be grateful if you could pass the attached information on to any organisation that you are aware of that provide such services.
Regards
CLÁR
Rural Development Section
Regional Development and Rural Affairs
Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Government Buildings
Ballina
Co Mayo
CLÁR@ahg.gov.ie
Please see Press Release below regarding the launch of the 2017 CLÁR funding programme. This year there is an allocation of €0.75million under the CLÁR programme for the First Response Support Measure. This measure will be operated directly by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and is open to formally recognised organisations/groups that operate entirely on a voluntary basis and are involved in emergency rescue/first response efforts. We would be grateful if you could pass the attached information on to any organisation that you are aware of that provide such services.
Regards
CLÁR
Rural Development Section
Regional Development and Rural Affairs
Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Government Buildings
Ballina
Co Mayo
CLÁR@ahg.gov.ie
European Funding and Policy - An Interactive Discussion with Matt Carthy MEP: Monaghan - 21 April 2017
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The Wheel is a support and representative body connecting community and voluntary organisations and charities across Ireland.
Here is a bit of information about the upcoming information session:
European Funding and Policy - An Interactive Discussion with Matt Carthy MEP: Monaghan - 21 April 2017
Venue: Hillgrove Hotel, Old Armagh Rd, Latlorcan, Monaghan
Time: 11am-1pm, 21 April 2017
Cost: FREE
Course Details: Taking place in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan from 11am, this short but highly impactful session will inform voluntary and charitable organisations about European funding opportunities available and also give them a chance to consider some crucial questions relating to Europe: What is the impending impact of Brexit on their work; what EU funding is available to civil society; and overall, in a rapidly changing context, what is the value of engaging in Europe? All are welcome but please register a place here.
Here is a bit of information about the upcoming information session:
European Funding and Policy - An Interactive Discussion with Matt Carthy MEP: Monaghan - 21 April 2017
Venue: Hillgrove Hotel, Old Armagh Rd, Latlorcan, Monaghan
Time: 11am-1pm, 21 April 2017
Cost: FREE
Course Details: Taking place in the Hillgrove Hotel, Monaghan from 11am, this short but highly impactful session will inform voluntary and charitable organisations about European funding opportunities available and also give them a chance to consider some crucial questions relating to Europe: What is the impending impact of Brexit on their work; what EU funding is available to civil society; and overall, in a rapidly changing context, what is the value of engaging in Europe? All are welcome but please register a place here.
Cavan County Council Discretionary Fund
Municipal Districts Discretionary Allocation Scheme
The members of Cavan County Council have created a funding scheme in each of the three municipal district areas for the purpose of supporting community groups in delivering and promoting projects in their areas.
Published on: 05 Apr 2017
Facebook Tweet LinkedIn EmailThe scheme is designed for large scale, infrastructural and capital projects. The minimum grant aid payable will be €3,000.
Download the criteria here
Download the application form here
For further details:
• Call: Theresa at 049 437 8587 or
• Email: ttierney@cavancoco.ie or
• Call into your local municipal district office.
Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, 28 April 2017
The members of Cavan County Council have created a funding scheme in each of the three municipal district areas for the purpose of supporting community groups in delivering and promoting projects in their areas.
Published on: 05 Apr 2017
Facebook Tweet LinkedIn EmailThe scheme is designed for large scale, infrastructural and capital projects. The minimum grant aid payable will be €3,000.
Download the criteria here
Download the application form here
For further details:
• Call: Theresa at 049 437 8587 or
• Email: ttierney@cavancoco.ie or
• Call into your local municipal district office.
Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, 28 April 2017
APRIL E-News: Lots of Grant Info This Month!!!!!
Welcome to the April 2017 CavanPPN eNewsletter, Community Focus.
We have items listed below for you to read, peruse or skip at your leisure and if you wish to have your news advertised then let us know prior to the 20th of each month for dispatch on cavanppn@gmail.com We also place it all on our facebook page and website www.cavancommunity.ie
We hope this information reaches you and your community group. Please let us know if your groups details change to keep our database up to date.
Kind Regards
Daniel Downey
CavanPPN Coordinator
Contents
1. Creative Ireland workshop
2. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
4. Community Facilities Scheme OPEN
5. The Community Foundation for Ireland Grant Open
6. Cavan Chairman's Awards Night Coming Up
7. How SICAP Helps Local Communities
8. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April.
9. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!!
10. Cavan2100, A Vision Of A Future
1. Creative Ireland workshop
A workshop on Creative Ireland , the Government Legacy Programme for Ireland 2016 – a five year initiative from 2017 -2022 which places creativity at the centre of public policy will take place in Hotel Kilmore on Monday, April 10 from 6.30 pm to 8.30 All are invited to join the discussion about how the Creative Ireland programme will enable creativity for all citizens. Help share and develop ideas for a Cavan programme that is relevant, inclusive and meaningful
2. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
Applications are now being invited by the HSE for National Lottery Funding Grants.
This funding is distributed by the HSE each year to community based groups and voluntary organisations under the Respite Care Grant Scheme and the National Lottery Grant Scheme.
Groups and organisations involved in the provision of Health and Personal Social Services can apply for once off funding of between €500 and €10,000 for suitable projects.
The HSE is advertising in regional newspapers over the coming weeks for applications, and you may wish to share this notification among your professional or local networks.
All of the information required, including application forms, is now available on www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
Completed Application Forms must be returned to the local Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO).
Closing Date for Applications – 17:00 on Friday 26th May 2017.
Applicants will be advised as to the outcome of their application no later than Thursday 31.08.2017.
For more, please visit www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
4. Community Facilities Scheme OPEN (email cavanppn@gmail.com for forms)
This scheme is to enhance communities, address disadvantage and improve social cohesion at a local level by providing access to small-scale capital grants. An allocation of €64,500 has been made available to Cavan County Council for the scheme in Budget 2017.
Under the scheme community and voluntary groups may apply for a grant in general up to €1000 for capital projects which benefit the local community.
Applications should relate to at least one key target group and thematic area in order to be eligible for consideration e.g. youth, older people, projects promoting integration. Projects or elements of projects of a capital nature may be funded, for example, office equipment, project resources, research facilities, energy efficiency equipment, etc.
The scheme is being administered by the Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) along with the Municipal Districts under the remit of the Local Authorities (LAs).
Local Authorities, on behalf of the Local Community Development Committees, will make payments directly to the successful groups as required. Applications are now being invited for funding under this Scheme.
5. The Community Foundation for Ireland Grant Open
The Community Foundation for Ireland's ongoing grants strategy, now named "Social Change Grants" has been confirmed for 2017.
The Social Change grants that will be open for application will be under the categories of The Older Person's Fund, LGBT+ people who are Migrants and Leadership for Ethnic Minorities.
For further details and to apply to the LGBT+ people who are Migrants category please see here<http://www.foundation.ie/inclusion-lgbt-migrants/>
For further details and to apply to the Leadership for Ethnic Minorities category please see here<http://www.foundation.ie/leadership-ethnic-minorities/>
6. Cavan Chairman's Awards Night Coming Up
The Chairman’s Awards Night is Friday, 26th May in Hotel Kilmore.
We will be sending out application forms but right now start thinking of people or groups you feel are worthy of recognition in the county, those who serve and benefit all our communities and in particular those who are too humble or too hidden to receive the great thanks they deserve.
7. How SICAP Helps Local Communities
SICAP is a national programme that helps unemployed people and other target groups to move closer to the labour market and promotes their inclusion in society. It also works with local community groups in a community development capacity. SICAP stands for ‘Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme’. In Cavan the programme is delivered by Breffni Integrated and overseen by the Cavan Local Community Development Committee.
The SICAP end of year progress report for 2016 showed excellent results for Cavan. Working through SICAP, staff at Breffni Integrated helped 153 people to set up their own businesses. They provided educational supports to 395 people and employment and enterprise training supports to 570 people. A total of 1,426 children and young people were engaged under the programme in 2016. Some fifty four community organisations were supported in 2016.
Notable achievements during 2016 included:
· Setting up the Cavan Disability Network. This network meets on a monthly basis and has nominated a representative to the Cavan Local Community Development Committee.
· A new Social Enterprise Forum for County Cavan was successfully established which will act as a voice for the sector and an influencer in local policy making for social enterprise and enterprise in general.
· A series of in school programmes, after school youth activities, and summer camps were provided to prevent early school leaving or ease the transition to further education and training.
· Breffni Integrated in partnership with the HSE delivered Safetalk suicide alertness workshops to individuals and community groups throughout the county.
· Breffni Integrated also delivered workshops on looking after your mental health, self-care and suicide alertness to secondary school students and youth groups, in association with community and voluntary organisations.
· Beckscourt Centre, Bailieborough, County Cavan serves as a base and resource for the provision of a range of community supports and services. Services operating from the premises include intensive work with unemployed people in the area including personal development training, interview techniques, CV preparation, job seeking skills and support into employment and self-employment delivered by Breffni Integrated SICAP staff.
· Particular supports were provided on an outreach basis to local community groups in West Cavan, which is identified as a disadvantaged area. This support has mainly been focused on organisation development and has included the establishment of two new community groups in Belturbet.
· Under the Congolese Resettlement Programme, Breffni Integrated continue to help this community with resettlement issues. The Congolese community group was also assisted with in a research and storytelling project in 2016
8. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April.
Time To Get Ready
The Local Agenda 21 Environmental
Partnership Fund, which has operated since 1997,
promotes sustainable development by
assisting small-scale environmental
projects at local level. These projects involve partnership arrangements between local
authorities and various local groups including
community groups, schools and
environmental NGOs.
For more info check out the CavanPPN web&facebook pages or email
awareness@environ.ie or call +353 (0)53 911 7475
Email us on cavanppn@gmail.com for a list of previously successful projects for ideas and inspirations.
9. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!!
SAVE THE DATE!
The dates are set for the 2017 Cavan Walking Festival!! It’s going to be AMAZING!!!
Mark the diaries for the 28th April - 5th May for a week of themed and guided 5km and 10km walks. Keep an eye out for updates and join in a walk in this beautiful county of ours.
For more
information contact CavanPPN or Cavan Sports Partnership. Details will be posted to the Anglo Celt in the weeks coming up to this excellent event.
10. Cavan2100, A Vision Of A Future
CavanPPN are
running a Schools competition with a chance to win €300 worth of enviro—goodies for your class and a special prize for the writer of the short story. How?
Imagine it’s the year 2117 and you are your age. We want you to describe the changes; the good and the bad. Has the world become a happy place or a sad place?
Is the environment clean and green or lean and mean?
What are the challenges of the new century?
We want you to let your imagination run free with how you see Cavan in the future, we want to see how you see it becoming in the
future.
NATIONAL SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 2000
Format: Word Document
1 Story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
SECONDARY SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 4000
Format: Word Document
1 story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
DETAILS
Stories can be sent to cavanppn@gmail.com or posted to:
CavanPPN, Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town.
Call 0863512308 for further details.
We have items listed below for you to read, peruse or skip at your leisure and if you wish to have your news advertised then let us know prior to the 20th of each month for dispatch on cavanppn@gmail.com We also place it all on our facebook page and website www.cavancommunity.ie
We hope this information reaches you and your community group. Please let us know if your groups details change to keep our database up to date.
Kind Regards
Daniel Downey
CavanPPN Coordinator
Contents
1. Creative Ireland workshop
2. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
4. Community Facilities Scheme OPEN
5. The Community Foundation for Ireland Grant Open
6. Cavan Chairman's Awards Night Coming Up
7. How SICAP Helps Local Communities
8. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April.
9. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!!
10. Cavan2100, A Vision Of A Future
1. Creative Ireland workshop
A workshop on Creative Ireland , the Government Legacy Programme for Ireland 2016 – a five year initiative from 2017 -2022 which places creativity at the centre of public policy will take place in Hotel Kilmore on Monday, April 10 from 6.30 pm to 8.30 All are invited to join the discussion about how the Creative Ireland programme will enable creativity for all citizens. Help share and develop ideas for a Cavan programme that is relevant, inclusive and meaningful
2. National Lottery Funding Grants Open
Applications are now being invited by the HSE for National Lottery Funding Grants.
This funding is distributed by the HSE each year to community based groups and voluntary organisations under the Respite Care Grant Scheme and the National Lottery Grant Scheme.
Groups and organisations involved in the provision of Health and Personal Social Services can apply for once off funding of between €500 and €10,000 for suitable projects.
The HSE is advertising in regional newspapers over the coming weeks for applications, and you may wish to share this notification among your professional or local networks.
All of the information required, including application forms, is now available on www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
Completed Application Forms must be returned to the local Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO).
Closing Date for Applications – 17:00 on Friday 26th May 2017.
Applicants will be advised as to the outcome of their application no later than Thursday 31.08.2017.
For more, please visit www.hse.ie/lotterygrants
4. Community Facilities Scheme OPEN (email cavanppn@gmail.com for forms)
This scheme is to enhance communities, address disadvantage and improve social cohesion at a local level by providing access to small-scale capital grants. An allocation of €64,500 has been made available to Cavan County Council for the scheme in Budget 2017.
Under the scheme community and voluntary groups may apply for a grant in general up to €1000 for capital projects which benefit the local community.
Applications should relate to at least one key target group and thematic area in order to be eligible for consideration e.g. youth, older people, projects promoting integration. Projects or elements of projects of a capital nature may be funded, for example, office equipment, project resources, research facilities, energy efficiency equipment, etc.
The scheme is being administered by the Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) along with the Municipal Districts under the remit of the Local Authorities (LAs).
Local Authorities, on behalf of the Local Community Development Committees, will make payments directly to the successful groups as required. Applications are now being invited for funding under this Scheme.
5. The Community Foundation for Ireland Grant Open
The Community Foundation for Ireland's ongoing grants strategy, now named "Social Change Grants" has been confirmed for 2017.
The Social Change grants that will be open for application will be under the categories of The Older Person's Fund, LGBT+ people who are Migrants and Leadership for Ethnic Minorities.
For further details and to apply to the LGBT+ people who are Migrants category please see here<http://www.foundation.ie/inclusion-lgbt-migrants/>
For further details and to apply to the Leadership for Ethnic Minorities category please see here<http://www.foundation.ie/leadership-ethnic-minorities/>
6. Cavan Chairman's Awards Night Coming Up
The Chairman’s Awards Night is Friday, 26th May in Hotel Kilmore.
We will be sending out application forms but right now start thinking of people or groups you feel are worthy of recognition in the county, those who serve and benefit all our communities and in particular those who are too humble or too hidden to receive the great thanks they deserve.
7. How SICAP Helps Local Communities
SICAP is a national programme that helps unemployed people and other target groups to move closer to the labour market and promotes their inclusion in society. It also works with local community groups in a community development capacity. SICAP stands for ‘Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme’. In Cavan the programme is delivered by Breffni Integrated and overseen by the Cavan Local Community Development Committee.
The SICAP end of year progress report for 2016 showed excellent results for Cavan. Working through SICAP, staff at Breffni Integrated helped 153 people to set up their own businesses. They provided educational supports to 395 people and employment and enterprise training supports to 570 people. A total of 1,426 children and young people were engaged under the programme in 2016. Some fifty four community organisations were supported in 2016.
Notable achievements during 2016 included:
· Setting up the Cavan Disability Network. This network meets on a monthly basis and has nominated a representative to the Cavan Local Community Development Committee.
· A new Social Enterprise Forum for County Cavan was successfully established which will act as a voice for the sector and an influencer in local policy making for social enterprise and enterprise in general.
· A series of in school programmes, after school youth activities, and summer camps were provided to prevent early school leaving or ease the transition to further education and training.
· Breffni Integrated in partnership with the HSE delivered Safetalk suicide alertness workshops to individuals and community groups throughout the county.
· Breffni Integrated also delivered workshops on looking after your mental health, self-care and suicide alertness to secondary school students and youth groups, in association with community and voluntary organisations.
· Beckscourt Centre, Bailieborough, County Cavan serves as a base and resource for the provision of a range of community supports and services. Services operating from the premises include intensive work with unemployed people in the area including personal development training, interview techniques, CV preparation, job seeking skills and support into employment and self-employment delivered by Breffni Integrated SICAP staff.
· Particular supports were provided on an outreach basis to local community groups in West Cavan, which is identified as a disadvantaged area. This support has mainly been focused on organisation development and has included the establishment of two new community groups in Belturbet.
· Under the Congolese Resettlement Programme, Breffni Integrated continue to help this community with resettlement issues. The Congolese community group was also assisted with in a research and storytelling project in 2016
8. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April.
Time To Get Ready
The Local Agenda 21 Environmental
Partnership Fund, which has operated since 1997,
promotes sustainable development by
assisting small-scale environmental
projects at local level. These projects involve partnership arrangements between local
authorities and various local groups including
community groups, schools and
environmental NGOs.
For more info check out the CavanPPN web&facebook pages or email
awareness@environ.ie or call +353 (0)53 911 7475
Email us on cavanppn@gmail.com for a list of previously successful projects for ideas and inspirations.
9. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!!
SAVE THE DATE!
The dates are set for the 2017 Cavan Walking Festival!! It’s going to be AMAZING!!!
Mark the diaries for the 28th April - 5th May for a week of themed and guided 5km and 10km walks. Keep an eye out for updates and join in a walk in this beautiful county of ours.
For more
information contact CavanPPN or Cavan Sports Partnership. Details will be posted to the Anglo Celt in the weeks coming up to this excellent event.
10. Cavan2100, A Vision Of A Future
CavanPPN are
running a Schools competition with a chance to win €300 worth of enviro—goodies for your class and a special prize for the writer of the short story. How?
Imagine it’s the year 2117 and you are your age. We want you to describe the changes; the good and the bad. Has the world become a happy place or a sad place?
Is the environment clean and green or lean and mean?
What are the challenges of the new century?
We want you to let your imagination run free with how you see Cavan in the future, we want to see how you see it becoming in the
future.
NATIONAL SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 2000
Format: Word Document
1 Story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
SECONDARY SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 4000
Format: Word Document
1 story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
DETAILS
Stories can be sent to cavanppn@gmail.com or posted to:
CavanPPN, Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town.
Call 0863512308 for further details.
Social Farming Network Event
Family Carers Cavan Office Has Moved To The Main Realtog Building.
Family Carers Ireland are providing free training to all participants in Smart Phone & Shopping on Line. For more information or to book please contact Geraldine or Linda.
Male Carers Group Meeting will be held in the Errigal Hotel Cootehill on the 22nd march commencing 10:30am. Guest speakers on the morning and lunch provided. Please contact Geraldine or Linda if you would like to attend.
Geraldine 086 1749715
Office Number 049 4374544
Male Carers Group Meeting will be held in the Errigal Hotel Cootehill on the 22nd march commencing 10:30am. Guest speakers on the morning and lunch provided. Please contact Geraldine or Linda if you would like to attend.
Geraldine 086 1749715
Office Number 049 4374544
COMMUNITY GRANT NEWS 24.2.17
The Community Grant Scheme - a scheme of small grants open to community groups to implement projects that will result in greater social and community activity in their area such as small scale amenity projects, provision of equipment for community halls/groups, materials, etc. The grant will not fund ongoing running costs. This scheme is aimed at groups who have limited fund raising opportunities and the majority of grants awarded are in the region of €200 - €500. Max grant is €1,000
The Festival & Events Grant Scheme - Funding under this scheme is 7k per area. This grant scheme aims to assist those events that have a tourism or community focus. Funding is limited to a maximum of €1,000 (St. Patrick Day festivals do not qualify for funding). This scheme replaces the previous Community Diaspora Grant Scheme
Application forms and details are available at www.cavancoco.ie or by phoning me on 049 4378579. Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday, 20th March, 2017.
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GRANTS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 23rd
This Fund is now open for applications!
The Older Persons’ Fund is a long term philanthropic fund which promotes the civic engagement of older people, as a means of working towards making a difference in their communities.
The Fund builds on our long standing engagement and commitment to supporting older people in their communities. We have invested over €1m in the sector since it was set up in 2000.
This year they have the following two categories that you may apply for a grant under:
1. Inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles – Grants of up to €7,500 will be available to organisations working towards inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles. Application form available here:https://communityfoundationireland.secure.force.com/…/Older…
2. Supporting older peoples’ voices at local & national level – Grants of up to €7,500 will available to organisations working towards supporting older peoples’ engagement in advocacy. Application available here:https://communityfoundationireland.secure.force.com/…/Older…
Deadline
The deadline for applications will be strictly 4.30 pm on Thursday 23rd March 2017. If you need any help or support contact on this, contact my Constituency Office on 042-966 66 66.
See criteria here: http://www.foundation.ie/…/Older-Persons-Fund-R5-Criteria.p…
The Older Persons’ Fund is a long term philanthropic fund which promotes the civic engagement of older people, as a means of working towards making a difference in their communities.
The Fund builds on our long standing engagement and commitment to supporting older people in their communities. We have invested over €1m in the sector since it was set up in 2000.
This year they have the following two categories that you may apply for a grant under:
1. Inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles – Grants of up to €7,500 will be available to organisations working towards inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles. Application form available here:https://communityfoundationireland.secure.force.com/…/Older…
2. Supporting older peoples’ voices at local & national level – Grants of up to €7,500 will available to organisations working towards supporting older peoples’ engagement in advocacy. Application available here:https://communityfoundationireland.secure.force.com/…/Older…
Deadline
The deadline for applications will be strictly 4.30 pm on Thursday 23rd March 2017. If you need any help or support contact on this, contact my Constituency Office on 042-966 66 66.
See criteria here: http://www.foundation.ie/…/Older-Persons-Fund-R5-Criteria.p…
Spring Newsletter 17.2.17
WHY VOLUNTEER: A Story
CavanVIS: Case Study on Volunteer Patsy Sheridan
Patsy Sheridan is and always has been a local of Cavan Town. Patsy was not involved in his local Men’s Shed or the Community Radio before 2014 because he always kept busy, he’s a man with many plans and he likes to keep active and about.
Then, in 2014 Patsy fell ill. It was the type of illness that shakes you to your core and makes you question everything and he had plenty of time to do it because the doctors forbade him from the hectic and physically demanding lifestyle he once had. He’s not young, but nor is he old so Patsy could not simply lie down and die. His motto is “life’s for living, not moping around”.
So, at first he joined a small amateur radio station. A place where he knew no one and he could sit and keep busy but get out and about nonetheless. Two years on Patsy is making 2 shows a week with thousands of listeners tuning in all throughout the year. Everywhere he goes in town, people beep and wave and Patsy brings a smile.
Next, a Men’s Shed opened up and Patsy – being inclined to be a handy enough fella – joined on the promise to his family he’d take it easy. He doesn’t though. He’s in there three times a week busting a gut, but not from hard work; it’s all from laughter. You see, for Patsy a Men’s Shed is there to produce 2 things; a place for men to go and a place for men to laugh. Patsy daily provides this.
So, in 3 years Patsy has gone from a hard working workaholic who had the rug torn from under him by illness and circumstance to seeing that volunteering can transform your life, make you a new and better person and not only bring a smile to his face but put on smile on others. Patsy is a volunteer hero and we’re proud to have him with us.
Daniel Downey of CavanPPN, Shane Dolan of Cavan Radio and Paddy Reilly of Cavan Men's Shed
I have read over this story and though I’m embarrassed I’m happy to see it go out to try and encourage others to get involved in their local communities.
Thanks
_____________________
Patsy Sheridan
Patsy Sheridan is and always has been a local of Cavan Town. Patsy was not involved in his local Men’s Shed or the Community Radio before 2014 because he always kept busy, he’s a man with many plans and he likes to keep active and about.
Then, in 2014 Patsy fell ill. It was the type of illness that shakes you to your core and makes you question everything and he had plenty of time to do it because the doctors forbade him from the hectic and physically demanding lifestyle he once had. He’s not young, but nor is he old so Patsy could not simply lie down and die. His motto is “life’s for living, not moping around”.
So, at first he joined a small amateur radio station. A place where he knew no one and he could sit and keep busy but get out and about nonetheless. Two years on Patsy is making 2 shows a week with thousands of listeners tuning in all throughout the year. Everywhere he goes in town, people beep and wave and Patsy brings a smile.
Next, a Men’s Shed opened up and Patsy – being inclined to be a handy enough fella – joined on the promise to his family he’d take it easy. He doesn’t though. He’s in there three times a week busting a gut, but not from hard work; it’s all from laughter. You see, for Patsy a Men’s Shed is there to produce 2 things; a place for men to go and a place for men to laugh. Patsy daily provides this.
So, in 3 years Patsy has gone from a hard working workaholic who had the rug torn from under him by illness and circumstance to seeing that volunteering can transform your life, make you a new and better person and not only bring a smile to his face but put on smile on others. Patsy is a volunteer hero and we’re proud to have him with us.
Daniel Downey of CavanPPN, Shane Dolan of Cavan Radio and Paddy Reilly of Cavan Men's Shed
I have read over this story and though I’m embarrassed I’m happy to see it go out to try and encourage others to get involved in their local communities.
Thanks
_____________________
Patsy Sheridan
Feb 2017 Community E-News 15.2.17
Welcome to the February 2017 CavanPPN eNewsletter, Community Focus.
We have items listed below for you to read, peruse or skip at your leisure and if you wish to have your news advertised then let us know prior to the 20th of each month for dispatch on cavanppn@gmail.com We also place it all on our facebook page and website www.cavancommunity.ie
We hope this information reaches you and your community group. Please let us know if your groups details change to keep our database up to date.
Kind Regards
Daniel Downey
CavanPPN Coordinator
Contents
1. Europe For Citizens Fund Now Open
2. The Older Persons Fund Now Open
3. Local Artists Seek Local Stories
4. Local SafeTalk and Assist Training
5. Bridge Street Centre Room Hire
6. Cavan Town Hall Receives €730,000
7. Clann Credo LEADER Loan Fund Launch A Success
8. New Community Youtube & Podcast Channels
9. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April, Time To Get Ready
10. Cavan Disability Network Set Up www.facebook.com/Cavandisability/
11. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!! (see attached)
12 GET UP! GET ACTIVE!! In Ballyconnell (see attached)
13. Frolics in Ballyjamesduff (see attached)
14. Cavan2100 Youth Competition by CavanPPN
15. Kilbride Graveyard Project. Mountnugent .
16. "Bounce Back" Community Youth Project
1. EUROPE FOR CITIZENS FUND NOW OPEN
Calls for Proposals - NOW OPEN!The Call for Proposals is now OPEN - APPLY NOW BY VISITING THIS PAGE: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens/funding_en
Deadlines for submission of applications as follows:
Strand 1: European Remembrance 2017
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €100,000
Outline
Actions funded under this strand will invite reflection on European cultural diversity and on common values e.g. reflecting on the causes of totalitarian regimes in Europe's modern history and to commemorate the victims of their crimes. This strand also encompasses activities concerning other defining moments in recent European history.
Preference will be given to projects which encourage tolerance, mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue and reconciliation.
Types of organisations/applicants:
Strand 2: Civil Society Projects 2017
Strand: Democratic engagement and civic participation
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €150,000
Outline
This measure aims to support projects that are promoted by transnational partnerships and organised via networks that directly involve citizens. Projects gather citizens from different horizons on activities directly linked to Union policies, with a view to giving them an opportunity to participate in the policy-making process of the EU. Participation in the process needs to be within areas related to the objectives of the Europe for Citizens Programme.
Projects can be centered around agenda-setting activities; advocating during the preparation phase and negotiation of EU policy; and providing feedback on relevant initiatives that are being implemented. Projects will invite citizens to act together or debate on the annual priority themes of the Programme at local and European level.
A Civil Society Project must include two of the following three types of activities:
Types of organisations/applicants:
Strand: Democratic engagement and civic participation, Town twinning
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €25,000
Outline
This measure aims to support projects bringing together a wide range of citizens from twinned towns around topics in line with the objectives of the Programme. Priority is given to projects targeting the priorities annually defined for this measure.
By mobilizing citizens at local and EU level to debate on concrete issues from the European political agenda, this measure will seek to promote civic participation in the Union policy making process and develop opportunities for societal engagement and volunteering at EU level.
Twinning must be understood to refer to the municipalities which signed or plan to sign twinning agreements, as well as those that have other forms of partnership that fostering cooperation and cultural links.
Types of organisations/applicants:
APPLY BY VISITING THIS PAGE: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens/funding_en
Strand 2: Networks of Towns 2017
Strand: Networks of towns, Democratic engagement and civic participation
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €150,000
Outline
Municipalities and associations working together may wish to develop networks of towns to make their cooperation more sustainable. Twinning is a strong link that binds municipalities, so the networks created by a series of town twinning links should be used for developing thematic and long-lasting cooperation between towns.
Priority is given to networks targeting annual priority themes.
Networks of Towns are expected to:
APPLY NOW BY VISITING THIS PAGE: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens/funding_en
2 The Older Persons’ FundThis Fund is now open for applications!
The Older Persons’ Fund is a long term philanthropic fund which promotes the civic engagement of older people, as a means of working towards making a difference in their communities.
The Fund builds on our long standing engagement and commitment to supporting older people in their communities. We have invested over €1m in the sector since it was set up in 2000.
Why an Older Persons’ Fund?
It is estimated that by 2041, people aged over 65 will account for 22% of the population in Ireland, compared to some 11% today.
The Older Person’s Fund seeks to realise the benefits of this changing demographic by building a long term sustainable fund to support older people’s voices at a local and national level and their capacity to engage fully in all strands of society. In line with this goal, the mission of The Older Persons’ Fund will be to support strategic community based and national activities promoting Older People as Active Citizens and Advocates – including influencing policy, community decision-making processes, leadership, negotiation and other ways to give greater “voice” to Older People.
The Older Persons’ Fund has been set up with an initial investment of €3m provided by us (€1m) and The Atlantic Philanthropies (€2m). We are targeting an additional €1m to be raised and allocated to the fund between now and 2018, as well as on-going fund development in the longer term.
The Fund will initially support projects in the area of civic engagement which
Who can apply
Not-for-profit organisations based in the Republic of Ireland, who believe they have a project which meets the criteria. As we will not consider applications which do not meet the stated criteria, we strongly recommend that you read the criteria (see below) before deciding to complete the application form.
This year we have the following two categories that you may apply for a grant under:
1. Inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles – Grants of up to €7,500 will be available to organisations working towards inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles
2. Supporting older peoples’ voices at local & national level – Grants of up to €7,500 will available to organisations working towards supporting older peoples’ engagement in advocacy.
How to apply
Download the criteria here
Download the online application for Inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles here
Download the online application for Supporting older peoples’ voices at local & national level here
The Foundation has introduced a new online grant application form in 2015. All applications must be submitted using the online application form. We cannot accept any other type of submission.
Contact Us
If you are unsure about any of the above, or have any other queries, please contact the grants team on (0)1 874 7354 or e-mail info@foundation.ie
Deadline
The deadline for applications will be strictly 4.30 pm on Thursday 23rd March 2017.
3. LOCAL ARTISTS SEEK STORIES
Pawel and Kasia Kleszczewski are two Polish artists who have been living here in Cavan for many years. They are embarking on a project to collect local folk talesand stories relating to water in County Cavan and her borders. They are really keen to meet anyone who might have some stories to share so if you are interested in getting involved or having your story recorded, please get in touch with Pawel or Kasia at e: kleszczewski.mail@gmail.com
Click here for further information http://visualartists.ie/listings/exhib-ulster/in-the-beginning-was-water-kasia-zimnoch-and-pawel-kleszczewski-on-residency-at-townhall-cavan/
4. safeTALK and ASIST Training
Please see below dates of upcoming safeTALK and ASIST Training for staff working in Cavan and Monaghan. Further information and application forms are attached. Please circulate this information to your staff, colleagues and members of your networks. Please encourage staff to submit applications in advance of the closing dates noted.
Training
Date
Location
Time
Closing date for Applications
safeTALK
Wednesday 8th February 2017
Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cavan
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 27th January 2017
safeTALK
Wednesday 15th March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 3rd March 2017
ASIST
Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. x 2 days
(Tea/Coffee & Lunch provided)
Friday 17th February 2017
Best regards,
Emer
Emer Mulligan
Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention
HSE Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Services
Carrickmacross Primary Care Centre
Donaghmoyne Road
Carrickmacross
Co Monaghan
Tel: 086 1717 563
5. BRIDGE STREET CENTRE ROOM HIRE
Room hire available in The Bridge Street Centre, Cavan Town. Ideal for training courses, workshops, meetings, computer /I.T. Classes.
1st Floor space:
The layout and furniture in the meeting space allow multiple set up styles and their versatility means that they are the ideal place for a meeting, workshop, training event, or health &
fitness activity such as pilates or yoga.
The space also serves as an area for youth activities, e.g. Youth Café, youth groups. This room is equipped with a pool table, 40” Plasma TV and powerpoint facilities, along with a projector and 2m x 1.5m pull down screen.
This floor also
includes a computer room fitted with 9 PCs all with full INTERNET ACCESS. The room can also be partitioned between meeting space and computer suite. There is also a meeting room on this floor which is ideal for counselling and
mediation services. The room has tea/coffee making
facilities is fully accessible to individuals with disabilities.
This room is now available on the
following days:
v Mon. - 9am - 6pm
v Wed - 9am - 6pm
v Thurs - 9am - 5pm
v Fri- 9am - 2pm
v evening availability 5pm-11pm
For further info:
Bridge Street Centre
049 4325070
087 3558447
estafford@cavancoco.ie
www.bridgestreetcentre.ie
6. Cavan Town Hall Receives €730,000 Fund
Great performance by The Cavan Band 'The Strypes' at the February 13th launch of €9million under the Arts and Cultural Capital Scheme at Cavan Townhall Cavan.
Three arts centres in Cavan/Monaghan are to be funded. Cavan Town Hall will receive €750,000 for the redevelopment of the building as a fit for purpose arts and cultural centre. The Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen, Monaghan are set to get €188,636 for structural re-
furbishment and the old Post Office in Clones will receive a grant of €144,077 to allow it to be re- developed as an arts studio and
community hub.
7. Clann Credo LEADER Loan Fund Launch A Success
Community Groups have big ideas and LEADER Grants make those visions become realities. But Bridging Finance and Match Funding can be obstacles for groups
trying to avail of LEADER Grants.
To avail of the LEADER grant, you may need to show that your project is fully-funded. This can include demonstrating that your organisation has the ability to pay for goods and services in advance of you receiving the LEADER Grant.
You may also need to show that your organisation has sufficient money to complete the project.This may be difficult for some organisations, but Clann Credo can help you by providing Bridging Loans or Match Funding Loans.
Between 2007 and 2013 Clann Credo provided over €34m to 319 LEADER projects,
creating, sustaining, and supporting almost 3,000 jobs.
Check www.clanncredo.ie for this an 2 other community loan funds available.
8. New Community Youtube & Podcast Channels
Changing times need changing voices and CavanPPN has set up a new YouTube Channel for
community groups. Throughout 2017 we will promote
community interests, put up training
sessions and funding information on this channel. To access simply go to www.youtube.com and type in CavanPPN.
Likewise CavanPPN has also set up an audio version of Community Focus which is played weekly on Cavan Online Radio. This includes news & views, interviews & community help. To access this simple go to:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/cavanonlineradio
And under Episodes play the Community Focus episode.
Enjoy!!!
9. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April, Time To Get Ready
The Local Agenda 21 Environmental
Partnership Fund, which has operated since 1997,
promotes sustainable development by
assisting small-scale environmental
projects at local level. These projects involve partnership arrangements between local
authorities and various local groups including
community groups, schools and
environmental NGOs.
For more info check out the CavanPPN web&facebook pages or email
awareness@environ.ie or call +353 (0)53 911 7475
Email us on cavanppn@gmail.com for a list of previously successful projects for ideas and inspirations.
10. Cavan Disability Network Set Up www.facebook.com/Cavandisability/
Cavan County Council, Breffni Integrated and CavanPPN are working with local volunteers and activists to set up a Cavan Disability Network.
It’s vital to have a representative voice for those at risk of being unheard in society and so the initiative is to give a forum for voices to reach out and represent across the county as widely as possible.
The core idea is that there is no such thing as a DIS-ability, only a society’s IN-ability to cater for those with different needs.
The Cavan Disability Network was set up to make sure those needs are met by the society of Cavan to make it the best possible place to live.
If you want to know more contact your PPN or Council or check their FB page (above)
11. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!! (see attached)
SAVE THE DATE!
The dates are set for the 2017 Cavan Walking Festival!! It’s going to be AMAZING!!!
Mark the diaries for the 28th April - 5th May for a week of themed and guided 5km and 10km walks. Keep an eye out for updates and join in a walk in this beautiful county of ours.
For more
information contact CavanPPN or Cavan Sports Partnership. Details will be posted to the Anglo Celt in the weeks coming up to this excellent event.
12 GET UP! GET ACTIVE!! In Ballyconnell
Sign up, sign up, sign up!!! Set
yourself a terrific goal and run, jog or walk our 5km on the 25th Feb! It's open to one and all even if you haven't done the Ballyconnell Get Up! Get Active!programme. We're continuing to raise funds for the
fantastic SOSAD Cavan. You can get forms and pay your €10 fee in Donohoes Supervalu
Ballyconnell or you can sign up online: http://www.oneillphysiotherapy.com/sign-up-online/
See you there!!
13. Frolics in Ballyjamesduff (see attached)
14. Cavan2100, A Vision Of A Future
CavanPPN are
running a Schools competition with a chance to win €300 worth of enviro—goodies for your class and a special prize for the writer of the short story. How?
Imagine it’s the year 2117 and you are your age. We want you to describe the changes; the good and the bad. Has the world become a happy place or a sad place?
Is the environment clean and green or lean and mean?
What are the challenges of the new century?
We want you to let your imagination run free with how you see Cavan in the future, we want to see how you see it becoming in the
future.
NATIONAL SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 2000
Format: Word Document
1 Story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
SECONDARY SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 4000
Format: Word Document
1 story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
DETAILS
Stories can be sent to cavanppn@gmail.com or posted to:
CavanPPN, Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town.
Call 0863512308 for further details.
Use of images will be allowed to accompany the stories but priority is on the ability of the
student to write their vision of the future.Environmental aspects will be given greater consideration but also visions of technological enhancements, changes in lifestyle etc.
Students may use background information for their stories as long as the main theme and writing comes from the students’ themselves.
Closing date September 29th, winners will be declared prior to the Halloween break. The competition is open from February 28th.
15. Kilbride Graveyard Project. Mountnugent .
Anyone with details of relatives interned in Kilbride Graveyard . Please or contact Tess Brady 0872052861.
16. Bounce Back Community Project
The Bounce Back Youth Service is a new service aimed at the young people in the areas of Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Bailieborough within the age bracket of 10 -24 years of age.
As you are a valuable stakeholder to this service we want to provide you with the full details of the Bounce Back Youth Service and everything we have to offer.
There are two elements to the service, one being the Rural Resilience Project and the other being the Detached Youth Work element.
Rural Resilience Project
The Bounce Back Youth Service offers a rural resilience project that reaches out to young people who are isolated in the rural communities of South East Cavan. This is a confidential service that is available to anyone between the ages of 10-18 years. Through strength based assessment looking at the young person’s life, the support worker and the young person will create an individualised programme together, focusing on goals and outcomes to be achieved and agreeing the steps to success. The support worker will engage weekly with the young person and work in partnership with their families in achieving their individual goals. The young person can then be supported to engage with the step down services offered by Youth Work Ireland through their Youth Cafes and other specified programmes.
What are the benefits of the Rural Resilience Project?
· Better mental health through increased psychological resilience- building strong, healthy families, who can cope with challenges, solve problems and raise happy resilient children.
· Better relationships through increased social support- keeping young people safe and connected with their families and community.
· More stable, secure and engaged through increasing children and young people’s ability to manage their behaviour and emotions effectively.
This is a referral based service and Bounce Back accepts referrals from professionals, parents and young people themselves. Referrals can be accepted for young people experiencing issues such as:
· Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
· Social Isolation
· Social Anxiety
· Poor coping skills and poor decision making skills
· Experience of, or engaging in bullying behaviours
· Dealing with loss, bereavement or parental separation
· Relationship difficulties - problems relating to others
· Parenting difficulties in managing young person’s behaviours and emotions.
· Issues related to complex family experiences (substance misuse, mental health difficulties)
· Family Breakdown, transition to care.
Shield My School
The Shield Programme is how the ISPCC supports communities, school and clubs to tackle and prevent bullying. The ISPCC believes that there is a need for a concerted effort nationwide to work in partnership with schools, parents and communities to reduce incidents of bullying using evidence based approaches and materials that have proven effective.
The ISPCC has developed a range of Shield resources, providing children and young people with the necessary coping skills to deal with and protect themselves from bullying. Shield has four key elements
· Shield My School Tool/Shield my Club Tool – self-evaluation
· Shield Youth Award – anti-bullying themed competition for students
· Standing Up Online Form – an anti-bullying resource for your website
· Shield Flag – gain recognition for your work against bullying
By utilising the tool schools and clubs realise what their strengths are in terms of managing bullying with the process highlighting all the positive proactive work and initiatives that are already in place. However it also identifies areas that schools and clubs need to develop.
Detached Youth Work
The Detached Youth Work element of this service will be carried out by staff members of Youth Work Ireland by being present on the streets of Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Bailieborough on key nights when we know the more at risk young people are hanging around the streets and possibly engaging in antisocial behaviour.
What is Detached Youth Work?
Detached Youth Work is a distinct form of youth work, it uses the principles and practices of informal education to engage young people in constructive dialogue within a broad agenda of personal and social development. It seeks to work on and from young peoples “territory”, meaning detached youth workers work where young people have chosen to be, whether this is on the streets, cafes, shopping centres etc.
What We Do:
Our detached youth workers will engage with the young people on the streets and develop relationships with those young people, we provide confidential advice, information and support on any of the following:
l Homelessness
l Education, Employment & Training
l Sexual Health
l Drugs & Alcohol use/misuse, including information on drugs and the law
l Crime diversion including anti social behaviour and its consequences
l Counselling, dealing with issues such as stress & depression
How We Do It:
l Develop and maintain contact with the young people
l Support young people who do not access existing services
l Provide informal opportunities for social and personal development
l Support young people at risk
l Recruit for specific programmes and services
l Support young people to access other supports and appropriate services
l Provide young people with information, advice and support
Volunteers
Volunteering plays a significant and positive contribution to improving the lives of everyone in society and strengthening your local community, which is vital to our work. This includes supporting a network of people who are available to work for and support the work of Youth Work Ireland Cavan. If you feel you can contribute or are interested in becoming involved in the project please contact us on the below email address.
If you are interested in availing of these services please contact us in our Cavan Office:
Bounce Back Youth Service
CMETB Adult & Community Education Centre
Virginia Road
Ballyjamesduff
Co Cavan
Emails:
Cyril@ywicavan.ie
Sharon@ywicavan.ie
Michelle.Green@ispcc.ie
Yvonne.Lowry@ispcc.ie
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Daniel Downey
Cavan Public Participation Coordinator
Cana House,
Cavan Town,
Co. Cavan
0863512308
cavanppn@gmail.com
www.cavancommunity.ie
We have items listed below for you to read, peruse or skip at your leisure and if you wish to have your news advertised then let us know prior to the 20th of each month for dispatch on cavanppn@gmail.com We also place it all on our facebook page and website www.cavancommunity.ie
We hope this information reaches you and your community group. Please let us know if your groups details change to keep our database up to date.
Kind Regards
Daniel Downey
CavanPPN Coordinator
Contents
1. Europe For Citizens Fund Now Open
2. The Older Persons Fund Now Open
3. Local Artists Seek Local Stories
4. Local SafeTalk and Assist Training
5. Bridge Street Centre Room Hire
6. Cavan Town Hall Receives €730,000
7. Clann Credo LEADER Loan Fund Launch A Success
8. New Community Youtube & Podcast Channels
9. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April, Time To Get Ready
10. Cavan Disability Network Set Up www.facebook.com/Cavandisability/
11. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!! (see attached)
12 GET UP! GET ACTIVE!! In Ballyconnell (see attached)
13. Frolics in Ballyjamesduff (see attached)
14. Cavan2100 Youth Competition by CavanPPN
15. Kilbride Graveyard Project. Mountnugent .
16. "Bounce Back" Community Youth Project
1. EUROPE FOR CITIZENS FUND NOW OPEN
Calls for Proposals - NOW OPEN!The Call for Proposals is now OPEN - APPLY NOW BY VISITING THIS PAGE: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens/funding_en
Deadlines for submission of applications as follows:
Strand 1: European Remembrance 2017
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €100,000
Outline
Actions funded under this strand will invite reflection on European cultural diversity and on common values e.g. reflecting on the causes of totalitarian regimes in Europe's modern history and to commemorate the victims of their crimes. This strand also encompasses activities concerning other defining moments in recent European history.
Preference will be given to projects which encourage tolerance, mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue and reconciliation.
Types of organisations/applicants:
- Local and regional authorities
- NGOs including civil society organisations, survivors' associations, educational, cultural, youth, educational or research associations.
- A project must involve organisations from at least 1 Member State. Preference is given to transnational projects.
Strand 2: Civil Society Projects 2017
Strand: Democratic engagement and civic participation
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €150,000
Outline
This measure aims to support projects that are promoted by transnational partnerships and organised via networks that directly involve citizens. Projects gather citizens from different horizons on activities directly linked to Union policies, with a view to giving them an opportunity to participate in the policy-making process of the EU. Participation in the process needs to be within areas related to the objectives of the Europe for Citizens Programme.
Projects can be centered around agenda-setting activities; advocating during the preparation phase and negotiation of EU policy; and providing feedback on relevant initiatives that are being implemented. Projects will invite citizens to act together or debate on the annual priority themes of the Programme at local and European level.
A Civil Society Project must include two of the following three types of activities:
- Promotion of Societal Engagement and Solidarity: activities that promote debate on the themes of common interest in the larger framework of the rights and responsibilities of EU citizens and make the link to the European political agenda and policy-making process
- Gathering of Opinions: Activities aiming to gather the opinions of citizens on the specific topic (to be defined yearly), favouring a bottom-up approach and media literacy
- Volunteering: Activities promoting solidarity among EU citizens and beyond.
Types of organisations/applicants:
- NGOs including civil society organisations, educational, cultural or research institutions.
- A project must involve organisations from at least 3 countries. Partners can be local authorities, NGOs, educational, cultural or research institutions, town-twinning committees and networks.
Strand: Democratic engagement and civic participation, Town twinning
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €25,000
Outline
This measure aims to support projects bringing together a wide range of citizens from twinned towns around topics in line with the objectives of the Programme. Priority is given to projects targeting the priorities annually defined for this measure.
By mobilizing citizens at local and EU level to debate on concrete issues from the European political agenda, this measure will seek to promote civic participation in the Union policy making process and develop opportunities for societal engagement and volunteering at EU level.
Twinning must be understood to refer to the municipalities which signed or plan to sign twinning agreements, as well as those that have other forms of partnership that fostering cooperation and cultural links.
Types of organisations/applicants:
- Towns/municipalities or their twinning committees or other non-profit organisations representing local authorities.
APPLY BY VISITING THIS PAGE: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens/funding_en
Strand 2: Networks of Towns 2017
Strand: Networks of towns, Democratic engagement and civic participation
Deadline: 1 March 2017 - 11am Irish time
Maximum eligible grant for a project: €150,000
Outline
Municipalities and associations working together may wish to develop networks of towns to make their cooperation more sustainable. Twinning is a strong link that binds municipalities, so the networks created by a series of town twinning links should be used for developing thematic and long-lasting cooperation between towns.
Priority is given to networks targeting annual priority themes.
Networks of Towns are expected to:
- Integrate a range of activities around the subject(s) of common interest to be addressed in the context of the Programme’s objectives or annual priorities
- Have defined target groups for which the selected themes are particularly relevant and involve community members active in the subject area (i.e. experts, local associations, citizens and citizens’ groups directly affected by the theme, etc.)
- Serve as a basis for future initiatives and actions between the towns involved, on the issues addressed or possibly on further issues of common interest.
- Towns/municipalities or their twinning committees or networks;
- Other levels of local/regional authorities;
- Federations/associations of local authorities.
- Non-profit organisations representing local authorities.
APPLY NOW BY VISITING THIS PAGE: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/europe-for-citizens/funding_en
2 The Older Persons’ FundThis Fund is now open for applications!
The Older Persons’ Fund is a long term philanthropic fund which promotes the civic engagement of older people, as a means of working towards making a difference in their communities.
The Fund builds on our long standing engagement and commitment to supporting older people in their communities. We have invested over €1m in the sector since it was set up in 2000.
Why an Older Persons’ Fund?
It is estimated that by 2041, people aged over 65 will account for 22% of the population in Ireland, compared to some 11% today.
The Older Person’s Fund seeks to realise the benefits of this changing demographic by building a long term sustainable fund to support older people’s voices at a local and national level and their capacity to engage fully in all strands of society. In line with this goal, the mission of The Older Persons’ Fund will be to support strategic community based and national activities promoting Older People as Active Citizens and Advocates – including influencing policy, community decision-making processes, leadership, negotiation and other ways to give greater “voice” to Older People.
The Older Persons’ Fund has been set up with an initial investment of €3m provided by us (€1m) and The Atlantic Philanthropies (€2m). We are targeting an additional €1m to be raised and allocated to the fund between now and 2018, as well as on-going fund development in the longer term.
The Fund will initially support projects in the area of civic engagement which
- Support older people’s ‘voice’ at a local and national level, and their capacity to engage in all strands of society.
- Promote older people’s participation as active citizens in their communities and their inclusion in civic life.
Who can apply
Not-for-profit organisations based in the Republic of Ireland, who believe they have a project which meets the criteria. As we will not consider applications which do not meet the stated criteria, we strongly recommend that you read the criteria (see below) before deciding to complete the application form.
This year we have the following two categories that you may apply for a grant under:
1. Inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles – Grants of up to €7,500 will be available to organisations working towards inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles
2. Supporting older peoples’ voices at local & national level – Grants of up to €7,500 will available to organisations working towards supporting older peoples’ engagement in advocacy.
How to apply
Download the criteria here
Download the online application for Inclusion of older people in active citizenship roles here
Download the online application for Supporting older peoples’ voices at local & national level here
The Foundation has introduced a new online grant application form in 2015. All applications must be submitted using the online application form. We cannot accept any other type of submission.
Contact Us
If you are unsure about any of the above, or have any other queries, please contact the grants team on (0)1 874 7354 or e-mail info@foundation.ie
Deadline
The deadline for applications will be strictly 4.30 pm on Thursday 23rd March 2017.
3. LOCAL ARTISTS SEEK STORIES
Pawel and Kasia Kleszczewski are two Polish artists who have been living here in Cavan for many years. They are embarking on a project to collect local folk talesand stories relating to water in County Cavan and her borders. They are really keen to meet anyone who might have some stories to share so if you are interested in getting involved or having your story recorded, please get in touch with Pawel or Kasia at e: kleszczewski.mail@gmail.com
Click here for further information http://visualartists.ie/listings/exhib-ulster/in-the-beginning-was-water-kasia-zimnoch-and-pawel-kleszczewski-on-residency-at-townhall-cavan/
4. safeTALK and ASIST Training
Please see below dates of upcoming safeTALK and ASIST Training for staff working in Cavan and Monaghan. Further information and application forms are attached. Please circulate this information to your staff, colleagues and members of your networks. Please encourage staff to submit applications in advance of the closing dates noted.
Training
Date
Location
Time
Closing date for Applications
safeTALK
Wednesday 8th February 2017
Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cavan
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 27th January 2017
safeTALK
Wednesday 15th March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 3rd March 2017
ASIST
Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. x 2 days
(Tea/Coffee & Lunch provided)
Friday 17th February 2017
Best regards,
Emer
Emer Mulligan
Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention
HSE Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Services
Carrickmacross Primary Care Centre
Donaghmoyne Road
Carrickmacross
Co Monaghan
Tel: 086 1717 563
5. BRIDGE STREET CENTRE ROOM HIRE
Room hire available in The Bridge Street Centre, Cavan Town. Ideal for training courses, workshops, meetings, computer /I.T. Classes.
1st Floor space:
The layout and furniture in the meeting space allow multiple set up styles and their versatility means that they are the ideal place for a meeting, workshop, training event, or health &
fitness activity such as pilates or yoga.
The space also serves as an area for youth activities, e.g. Youth Café, youth groups. This room is equipped with a pool table, 40” Plasma TV and powerpoint facilities, along with a projector and 2m x 1.5m pull down screen.
This floor also
includes a computer room fitted with 9 PCs all with full INTERNET ACCESS. The room can also be partitioned between meeting space and computer suite. There is also a meeting room on this floor which is ideal for counselling and
mediation services. The room has tea/coffee making
facilities is fully accessible to individuals with disabilities.
This room is now available on the
following days:
v Mon. - 9am - 6pm
v Wed - 9am - 6pm
v Thurs - 9am - 5pm
v Fri- 9am - 2pm
v evening availability 5pm-11pm
For further info:
Bridge Street Centre
049 4325070
087 3558447
estafford@cavancoco.ie
www.bridgestreetcentre.ie
6. Cavan Town Hall Receives €730,000 Fund
Great performance by The Cavan Band 'The Strypes' at the February 13th launch of €9million under the Arts and Cultural Capital Scheme at Cavan Townhall Cavan.
Three arts centres in Cavan/Monaghan are to be funded. Cavan Town Hall will receive €750,000 for the redevelopment of the building as a fit for purpose arts and cultural centre. The Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Inniskeen, Monaghan are set to get €188,636 for structural re-
furbishment and the old Post Office in Clones will receive a grant of €144,077 to allow it to be re- developed as an arts studio and
community hub.
7. Clann Credo LEADER Loan Fund Launch A Success
Community Groups have big ideas and LEADER Grants make those visions become realities. But Bridging Finance and Match Funding can be obstacles for groups
trying to avail of LEADER Grants.
To avail of the LEADER grant, you may need to show that your project is fully-funded. This can include demonstrating that your organisation has the ability to pay for goods and services in advance of you receiving the LEADER Grant.
You may also need to show that your organisation has sufficient money to complete the project.This may be difficult for some organisations, but Clann Credo can help you by providing Bridging Loans or Match Funding Loans.
Between 2007 and 2013 Clann Credo provided over €34m to 319 LEADER projects,
creating, sustaining, and supporting almost 3,000 jobs.
Check www.clanncredo.ie for this an 2 other community loan funds available.
8. New Community Youtube & Podcast Channels
Changing times need changing voices and CavanPPN has set up a new YouTube Channel for
community groups. Throughout 2017 we will promote
community interests, put up training
sessions and funding information on this channel. To access simply go to www.youtube.com and type in CavanPPN.
Likewise CavanPPN has also set up an audio version of Community Focus which is played weekly on Cavan Online Radio. This includes news & views, interviews & community help. To access this simple go to:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/cavanonlineradio
And under Episodes play the Community Focus episode.
Enjoy!!!
9. LOCAL AGENDA 21 Grant To Open In April, Time To Get Ready
The Local Agenda 21 Environmental
Partnership Fund, which has operated since 1997,
promotes sustainable development by
assisting small-scale environmental
projects at local level. These projects involve partnership arrangements between local
authorities and various local groups including
community groups, schools and
environmental NGOs.
For more info check out the CavanPPN web&facebook pages or email
awareness@environ.ie or call +353 (0)53 911 7475
Email us on cavanppn@gmail.com for a list of previously successful projects for ideas and inspirations.
10. Cavan Disability Network Set Up www.facebook.com/Cavandisability/
Cavan County Council, Breffni Integrated and CavanPPN are working with local volunteers and activists to set up a Cavan Disability Network.
It’s vital to have a representative voice for those at risk of being unheard in society and so the initiative is to give a forum for voices to reach out and represent across the county as widely as possible.
The core idea is that there is no such thing as a DIS-ability, only a society’s IN-ability to cater for those with different needs.
The Cavan Disability Network was set up to make sure those needs are met by the society of Cavan to make it the best possible place to live.
If you want to know more contact your PPN or Council or check their FB page (above)
11. Cavan Walking Festival is NIGH!!! (see attached)
SAVE THE DATE!
The dates are set for the 2017 Cavan Walking Festival!! It’s going to be AMAZING!!!
Mark the diaries for the 28th April - 5th May for a week of themed and guided 5km and 10km walks. Keep an eye out for updates and join in a walk in this beautiful county of ours.
For more
information contact CavanPPN or Cavan Sports Partnership. Details will be posted to the Anglo Celt in the weeks coming up to this excellent event.
12 GET UP! GET ACTIVE!! In Ballyconnell
Sign up, sign up, sign up!!! Set
yourself a terrific goal and run, jog or walk our 5km on the 25th Feb! It's open to one and all even if you haven't done the Ballyconnell Get Up! Get Active!programme. We're continuing to raise funds for the
fantastic SOSAD Cavan. You can get forms and pay your €10 fee in Donohoes Supervalu
Ballyconnell or you can sign up online: http://www.oneillphysiotherapy.com/sign-up-online/
See you there!!
13. Frolics in Ballyjamesduff (see attached)
14. Cavan2100, A Vision Of A Future
CavanPPN are
running a Schools competition with a chance to win €300 worth of enviro—goodies for your class and a special prize for the writer of the short story. How?
Imagine it’s the year 2117 and you are your age. We want you to describe the changes; the good and the bad. Has the world become a happy place or a sad place?
Is the environment clean and green or lean and mean?
What are the challenges of the new century?
We want you to let your imagination run free with how you see Cavan in the future, we want to see how you see it becoming in the
future.
NATIONAL SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 2000
Format: Word Document
1 Story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
SECONDARY SCHOOLS:
Max Words: 4000
Format: Word Document
1 story per student
Prize: €300 of
environmental materials for your class & a prize for the winner.
Closing Date: September 29th
DETAILS
Stories can be sent to cavanppn@gmail.com or posted to:
CavanPPN, Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town.
Call 0863512308 for further details.
Use of images will be allowed to accompany the stories but priority is on the ability of the
student to write their vision of the future.Environmental aspects will be given greater consideration but also visions of technological enhancements, changes in lifestyle etc.
Students may use background information for their stories as long as the main theme and writing comes from the students’ themselves.
Closing date September 29th, winners will be declared prior to the Halloween break. The competition is open from February 28th.
15. Kilbride Graveyard Project. Mountnugent .
Anyone with details of relatives interned in Kilbride Graveyard . Please or contact Tess Brady 0872052861.
16. Bounce Back Community Project
The Bounce Back Youth Service is a new service aimed at the young people in the areas of Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Bailieborough within the age bracket of 10 -24 years of age.
As you are a valuable stakeholder to this service we want to provide you with the full details of the Bounce Back Youth Service and everything we have to offer.
There are two elements to the service, one being the Rural Resilience Project and the other being the Detached Youth Work element.
Rural Resilience Project
The Bounce Back Youth Service offers a rural resilience project that reaches out to young people who are isolated in the rural communities of South East Cavan. This is a confidential service that is available to anyone between the ages of 10-18 years. Through strength based assessment looking at the young person’s life, the support worker and the young person will create an individualised programme together, focusing on goals and outcomes to be achieved and agreeing the steps to success. The support worker will engage weekly with the young person and work in partnership with their families in achieving their individual goals. The young person can then be supported to engage with the step down services offered by Youth Work Ireland through their Youth Cafes and other specified programmes.
What are the benefits of the Rural Resilience Project?
· Better mental health through increased psychological resilience- building strong, healthy families, who can cope with challenges, solve problems and raise happy resilient children.
· Better relationships through increased social support- keeping young people safe and connected with their families and community.
· More stable, secure and engaged through increasing children and young people’s ability to manage their behaviour and emotions effectively.
This is a referral based service and Bounce Back accepts referrals from professionals, parents and young people themselves. Referrals can be accepted for young people experiencing issues such as:
· Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties
· Social Isolation
· Social Anxiety
· Poor coping skills and poor decision making skills
· Experience of, or engaging in bullying behaviours
· Dealing with loss, bereavement or parental separation
· Relationship difficulties - problems relating to others
· Parenting difficulties in managing young person’s behaviours and emotions.
· Issues related to complex family experiences (substance misuse, mental health difficulties)
· Family Breakdown, transition to care.
Shield My School
The Shield Programme is how the ISPCC supports communities, school and clubs to tackle and prevent bullying. The ISPCC believes that there is a need for a concerted effort nationwide to work in partnership with schools, parents and communities to reduce incidents of bullying using evidence based approaches and materials that have proven effective.
The ISPCC has developed a range of Shield resources, providing children and young people with the necessary coping skills to deal with and protect themselves from bullying. Shield has four key elements
· Shield My School Tool/Shield my Club Tool – self-evaluation
· Shield Youth Award – anti-bullying themed competition for students
· Standing Up Online Form – an anti-bullying resource for your website
· Shield Flag – gain recognition for your work against bullying
By utilising the tool schools and clubs realise what their strengths are in terms of managing bullying with the process highlighting all the positive proactive work and initiatives that are already in place. However it also identifies areas that schools and clubs need to develop.
Detached Youth Work
The Detached Youth Work element of this service will be carried out by staff members of Youth Work Ireland by being present on the streets of Ballyjamesduff, Virginia & Bailieborough on key nights when we know the more at risk young people are hanging around the streets and possibly engaging in antisocial behaviour.
What is Detached Youth Work?
Detached Youth Work is a distinct form of youth work, it uses the principles and practices of informal education to engage young people in constructive dialogue within a broad agenda of personal and social development. It seeks to work on and from young peoples “territory”, meaning detached youth workers work where young people have chosen to be, whether this is on the streets, cafes, shopping centres etc.
What We Do:
Our detached youth workers will engage with the young people on the streets and develop relationships with those young people, we provide confidential advice, information and support on any of the following:
l Homelessness
l Education, Employment & Training
l Sexual Health
l Drugs & Alcohol use/misuse, including information on drugs and the law
l Crime diversion including anti social behaviour and its consequences
l Counselling, dealing with issues such as stress & depression
How We Do It:
l Develop and maintain contact with the young people
l Support young people who do not access existing services
l Provide informal opportunities for social and personal development
l Support young people at risk
l Recruit for specific programmes and services
l Support young people to access other supports and appropriate services
l Provide young people with information, advice and support
Volunteers
Volunteering plays a significant and positive contribution to improving the lives of everyone in society and strengthening your local community, which is vital to our work. This includes supporting a network of people who are available to work for and support the work of Youth Work Ireland Cavan. If you feel you can contribute or are interested in becoming involved in the project please contact us on the below email address.
If you are interested in availing of these services please contact us in our Cavan Office:
Bounce Back Youth Service
CMETB Adult & Community Education Centre
Virginia Road
Ballyjamesduff
Co Cavan
Emails:
Cyril@ywicavan.ie
Sharon@ywicavan.ie
Michelle.Green@ispcc.ie
Yvonne.Lowry@ispcc.ie
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Daniel Downey
Cavan Public Participation Coordinator
Cana House,
Cavan Town,
Co. Cavan
0863512308
cavanppn@gmail.com
www.cavancommunity.ie
CAVAN ENVIRONMENT LINKAGE GROUP MEETING WED FEB 15th @7.30pm
Cavan Environmental Network Wed. February 15th @7.30pm
Spring Meeting Old Reference Library
Farnham Street, Cavan.
Agenda
Groups Invited:
Birdwatch Ireland (Cavan Branch), Bat Conservation Society, Irish Wildlife Trust Cavan Branch, Cavan Beekeepers, Community Resilience Cavan, Drumlane Community Gardens, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Realtog Community Garden, Loch Gowna Preservation Society, Killeshandra Community Organic Gardening Club, Cavan County Council and open public invite.
Spring Meeting Old Reference Library
Farnham Street, Cavan.
Agenda
- Welcome & Introduction. 7.30pm
- Grant & Funding Updates: 7.35pm
- Local Agenda 21.
-Community Grants. - The CavanPPN 2017 Environment Actions: 7.50pm
- “Support Our Bees” campaign with Cavan Bee Keepers.
- “2100” Cavan Schools Visioning Competition.
- Community Gardens & Recylcing Centre Map.
- Litter Blackspot Identification Campaign. - Setting Up An S.E.C.: 8.20pm
A new environmental initiative nationwide supported by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland with impacts for environmental development in Cavan.
See www.seai.ie/sec for more. - AOB 8.40pm
Meeting To End 8.50pm
Groups Invited:
Birdwatch Ireland (Cavan Branch), Bat Conservation Society, Irish Wildlife Trust Cavan Branch, Cavan Beekeepers, Community Resilience Cavan, Drumlane Community Gardens, Fairgreen Community Gardens, Realtog Community Garden, Loch Gowna Preservation Society, Killeshandra Community Organic Gardening Club, Cavan County Council and open public invite.
Clann Credo €25m LEADER Loan Fund Launch in Virginia Feb 6th.
Community Groups have big ideas and LEADER Grants make those visions become realities. But Bridging Finance and Match Funding can be obstacles for groups trying to avail of LEADER Grants.
To avail of the LEADER grant, you may need to show that your project is fully-funded. This can include demonstrating that your organisation has the ability to pay for goods and services in advance of you receiving the LEADER Grant.
You may also need to show that your organisation has sufficient money to complete the project.
This may be difficult for some organisations, but Clann Credo can help you by providing Bridging Loans or Match Funding Loans.
Between 2007 and 2013 Clann Credo provided over €34m to 319 LEADER projects, creating, sustaining, and supporting almost 3,000 jobs.
Why Clann Credo?
To avail of the LEADER grant, you may need to show that your project is fully-funded. This can include demonstrating that your organisation has the ability to pay for goods and services in advance of you receiving the LEADER Grant.
You may also need to show that your organisation has sufficient money to complete the project.
This may be difficult for some organisations, but Clann Credo can help you by providing Bridging Loans or Match Funding Loans.
Between 2007 and 2013 Clann Credo provided over €34m to 319 LEADER projects, creating, sustaining, and supporting almost 3,000 jobs.
Why Clann Credo?
- Affordable interest and repayment rates
- No Personal Guarantees required
- No application forms
- Experienced, Regionally-based staff - Dublin, North, East,West, North West, Midlands, South
- Community impact of project an important consideration in your loan request
NOTICE TO COMMUNITY GROUPS
Dear Public Participation Network Co-ordinators
The current Social Inclusion Community Programme (SICAP) is due to complete at the end of 2017.
The Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (DHPCLG) has authorised Pobal to conduct a structured consultation which will shape the next phase of SICAP from 2018-2020. This consultation process will offer key stakeholders the opportunity to inform the development of the successor SICAP programme.
A survey for national and local stakeholders has been designed to gather initial feedback on the development of ‘SICAP 2’. This feedback will provide the basis for more in-depth discussions at regional consultations and focus groups later in the year.
A link to the survey is attached below. We would be grateful if you could forward this survey to registered members of your Public Participation Network.
Please note, Pobal can only accept one survey response from each organisation. A copy of the survey is attached to enable each organisation to fully consult with relevant staff or membership on the questions asked.
All survey answers must be inputted from the same PC / Laptop. Therefore, each organisation should nominate one person who is best placed to complete the survey on their behalf.
The deadline for completing this survey is Wednesday 15th February.
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SICAPsurvey2
If you have any questions about this survey or the wider consultation, Please contact us at email: SICAP2@pobal.ie
Kind regards
The SICAP Team
The current Social Inclusion Community Programme (SICAP) is due to complete at the end of 2017.
The Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (DHPCLG) has authorised Pobal to conduct a structured consultation which will shape the next phase of SICAP from 2018-2020. This consultation process will offer key stakeholders the opportunity to inform the development of the successor SICAP programme.
A survey for national and local stakeholders has been designed to gather initial feedback on the development of ‘SICAP 2’. This feedback will provide the basis for more in-depth discussions at regional consultations and focus groups later in the year.
A link to the survey is attached below. We would be grateful if you could forward this survey to registered members of your Public Participation Network.
Please note, Pobal can only accept one survey response from each organisation. A copy of the survey is attached to enable each organisation to fully consult with relevant staff or membership on the questions asked.
All survey answers must be inputted from the same PC / Laptop. Therefore, each organisation should nominate one person who is best placed to complete the survey on their behalf.
The deadline for completing this survey is Wednesday 15th February.
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SICAPsurvey2
If you have any questions about this survey or the wider consultation, Please contact us at email: SICAP2@pobal.ie
Kind regards
The SICAP Team
Built Heritage Investment Scheme
The Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs is continuing the Built Heritage Investment Scheme (hereafter referred to as BHIS) in 2017.
The purpose of the BHIS is to encourage the leveraging of private capital to invest in a number of small scale, labour intensive projects, to repair and conserve structures protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).
The Scheme seeks to support the employment of skilled and experienced conservational professional, craft workers and trades people. This scheme will be administered by Local Authorities and project supports will range from a minimum of €2,500 to a maximum of €10,000 per application.
Cavan County Council has received €50,000 under this scheme and full details are contained within circular BHIS 17/1, which can be requested from the Heritage Office, Cavan County Council, Farnham St, Cavan.
The closing date for members of the public to apply to the Local Authority under this scheme is close of business on Tuesday, 28 February 2017.
See:
http://www.cavancoco.ie/Default.aspx?StructureID_str=255&guid=1942
for more info
The purpose of the BHIS is to encourage the leveraging of private capital to invest in a number of small scale, labour intensive projects, to repair and conserve structures protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).
The Scheme seeks to support the employment of skilled and experienced conservational professional, craft workers and trades people. This scheme will be administered by Local Authorities and project supports will range from a minimum of €2,500 to a maximum of €10,000 per application.
Cavan County Council has received €50,000 under this scheme and full details are contained within circular BHIS 17/1, which can be requested from the Heritage Office, Cavan County Council, Farnham St, Cavan.
The closing date for members of the public to apply to the Local Authority under this scheme is close of business on Tuesday, 28 February 2017.
See:
http://www.cavancoco.ie/Default.aspx?StructureID_str=255&guid=1942
for more info
EPISODE 1 OF COMMUNITY FOCUS PODCAST
Welcome To Episode 1 of of Community Focus, our audio-community news format:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/cavanonlineradio/community-focus-jan-2017
1. Winter 2017 Poetry Workshop
2. Clan Credo LEADER Loan Funding
3. Local Artists Seek Local Stories
4. Local SafeTalk and Assist Training
5. Irish Sign Language Courses
6. Better Energy Communities Reminder
7. New GoPro Photo Club in Cavan
8. Global Citizenship Creative Fairs
9. Cavan LEADER Targeted Calls Reminder
10. Computers For Farmers, West Cavan.
11. Top Tips For Bridging Community Based Capital Grants in Ireland
12. CavanPPN 2017 Workplan
13. CavanPPN 2016 Report (attached)
14. Community Radio Training (attached)
15. Cavan Peace Partnership Fund Reminder (criteria & forms attached)
https://www.spreaker.com/user/cavanonlineradio/community-focus-jan-2017
1. Winter 2017 Poetry Workshop
2. Clan Credo LEADER Loan Funding
3. Local Artists Seek Local Stories
4. Local SafeTalk and Assist Training
5. Irish Sign Language Courses
6. Better Energy Communities Reminder
7. New GoPro Photo Club in Cavan
8. Global Citizenship Creative Fairs
9. Cavan LEADER Targeted Calls Reminder
10. Computers For Farmers, West Cavan.
11. Top Tips For Bridging Community Based Capital Grants in Ireland
12. CavanPPN 2017 Workplan
13. CavanPPN 2016 Report (attached)
14. Community Radio Training (attached)
15. Cavan Peace Partnership Fund Reminder (criteria & forms attached)
January 2017 Community Focus
Welcome to the January 2017 CavanPPN Newsletter, Community Focus.
We have items listed below for you to read, peruse or skip at your leisure and if you wish to have your news advertised then let us know prior to the 20th of each month for dispatch on cavanppn@gmail.com We also place it all on our facebook page and website www.cavancommunity.ie
We hope this information reaches you and your community group. Please let us know if your groups details change to keep our database up to date.
Kind Regards
Daniel Downey
CavanPPN Coordinator
Contents
1. Winter 2017 Poetry Workshop
2. Clan Credo LEADER Loan Funding
3. Local Artists Seek Local Stories
4. Local SafeTalk and Assist Training
5. Irish Sign Language Courses
6. Better Energy Communities Reminder
7. New GoPro Photo Club in Cavan
8. Global Citizenship Creative Fairs
9. Cavan LEADER Targeted Calls Reminder
10. Computers For Farmers, West Cavan.
11. Top Tips For Bridging Community Based Capital Grants in Ireland
12. CavanPPN 2017 Workplan
13. CavanPPN 2016 Report (attached)
14. Community Radio Training (attached)
15. Cavan Peace Partnership Fund Reminder (criteria & forms attached)
1. Winter 2017 Poetry Workshop
Poetry Workshop every Wednesday from 25 Jan to Wed 15 March 2017in Cavan Town
Facilitated by Kate Ennals
Seamus Heany thought that poetry provided a ‘glimpse’ of the alternative and ‘redressed’ spiritual balance. He believed that poems functioned as a counterweight to hostile or oppressive forces in the world. Maybe we should start 2017 with poetry. An eight week poetry workshop will be facilitated by Kate Ennals every Wednesday evening from Wed 25 January to 15 March between 7pm and 9pm in Swellan, Cavan Town with tea and cakes.
The workshop will be based on a mix of themes and forms. Kate will provide poems for discussion, and set poetry assignments which the group will workshop each week. The aim is to bring together local poets/writers to stimulate and develop their work. There will be a limit of eight participants allocated on a first come, first served basis. Cost is €80 payable at first workshop. Deposit €25
For further information and to register, contact Kate Ennals on 0863737847 or email kateennals@live.co.uk.
Note to Editors
Kate Ennals is a poet and short story writer. Her first poetry collection, AT The Edge, came out in September 2015, published by Lapwing. She has been published in various literary publications such as Crannog, Skylight 47, Burning Bush 2, The Galway Review, Ropes, Boyne Berries, North West Words, New Ulster Anthology, The International Lakeview Journal and featured in The Spark. Her work was shortlisted (and performed) in the Claremorris Fringe festival, the Swift Festival, in the Doolin Short Story competition in 2014, and the Stephen King short story competition, 2015. She also run AT The Edge, Cavan, a literary evening.
2. CLAN CREDO LEADER LOAN FUND
Clann Credo €25 Million Community LEADER Loan Fund Launch and Workshop 6th February 2017
Clann Credo are also hosting a FREE Funding and Community Loan Finance Workshop on the afternoon of 6th Februaryfor attendees from 2pm-4.30pm at Virginia Show Centre in Virginia, Co. Cavan. This could be very useful for community groups planning to apply for a LEADER Grant.
Spring is a time for renewal and growth and Clann Credo aims to help community and voluntary groups, charities, and amateur sports clubs to grow and to strengthen communities nationwide.
The LEADER Grants help community groups realise their big project ideas. Bridging Finance and Match Funding can be obstacles for groups trying to avail of LEADER Grants, but Clann Credo Community Loans help ensure that finance should not be an issue.
We would like to invite you to the Launch of Clann Credo’s €25 million LEADER Loan Fund on Monday the 6th February at 10.30am.
We are delighted that Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys, TD will be launching the Clann Credo’s €25 million LEADER Loan Fund at Virginia Show Centre in Virginia, Co. Cavan. There will be other speakers at the launch representing: Clann Credo; The Irish Local Development Network; The Local Community Development Committees and the Virginia Show Centre.
We are also hosting a FREE Funding and Community Loan Finance Workshop on the afternoon of 6th February for attendees from 2pm-4.30pm. This would be very useful for community groups planning to apply for a LEADER Grant. Speakers will include representatives from: Clann Credo; Cavan LCDC; The Fundraising Sector; Brefni Integrated Limited and the Acre Project, Co. Meath.
You could attend either the morning or afternoon events or both. Refreshments will be provided.
This event is open to everyone, so if you are in a position to spread the word, please pass on this invitation through your networks.
To register on Eventbrite and for more information click here
Looking forward to meeting you there,
Paul O'Sullivan, Clann Credo CEO
3. LOCAL ARTISTS SEEK STORIES
Pawel and Kasia Kleszczewski are two Polish artists who have been living here in Cavan for many years. They are embarking on a project to collect local folk talesand stories relating to water in County Cavan and her borders. They are really keen to meet anyone who might have some stories to share so if you are interested in getting involved or having your story recorded, please get in touch with Pawel or Kasia at e: kleszczewski.mail@gmail.com
Click here for further information http://visualartists.ie/listings/exhib-ulster/in-the-beginning-was-water-kasia-zimnoch-and-pawel-kleszczewski-on-residency-at-townhall-cavan/
4. safeTALK and ASIST Training
Please see below dates of upcoming safeTALK and ASIST Training for staff working in Cavan and Monaghan. Further information and application forms are attached. Please circulate this information to your staff, colleagues and members of your networks. Please encourage staff to submit applications in advance of the closing dates noted.
Training
Date
Location
Time
Closing date for Applications
safeTALK
Wednesday 8th February 2017
Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cavan
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 27th January 2017
safeTALK
Wednesday 15th March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 3rd March 2017
ASIST
Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. x 2 days
(Tea/Coffee & Lunch provided)
Friday 17th February 2017
Best regards,
Emer
Emer Mulligan
Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention
HSE Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Services
Carrickmacross Primary Care Centre
Donaghmoyne Road
Carrickmacross
Co Monaghan
Tel: 086 1717 563
5. IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE COURSES
Please see attached details of upcoming Irish Sign Language course to be run by the Irish Deaf Society in the Bridge Street Centre over the course of 15 Wednesday evenings, 6.30pm-8.00pm, from 31st January. (see attached for more details)
The accredited QQI/FETAC Level 3 classes are 15 weeks (1.5 hours per class)
Cost: €200.00 per learner (excluding €50.00 optional examination fee)
Payments must be paid by 18th January
More details: https://www.irishdeafsociety.ie/irish-sign-language/booking-an-irish-sign-language-classes/
Please forward to any persons or groups you think may be interested.
6. BETTER ENERGY COMMUNITIES
Better Energy Communities 2017 was officially launched on 6th December by Denis Naughten T.D., Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. SEAI will offer €30 million in grant supports for community energy projects in 2017. This represents a 50% increase in funding from the 2016 grant levels - an additional €10 million for this. The scheme, which is administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), has supported 300 community energy efficiency projects over the last five years. (http://www.seai.ie/Grants/Better_Energy_Communities/)
Important Dates for Better Energy Communities 2017
· 19th December 2016: Application form available to download
· Mid Jan 2017: Applications can be submitted
· 17th February 2017: Deadline for receipt of Applications
· April 2017: Notification of successful projects
· 13th October 2017: Project completion
7. New GoPro Photography Group in Cavan
"GoPro Photography Cavan is a new, vibrant, up & coming Photography Group for enthusiasts who want to learn, improve and perfect their Photography.
We are an all inclusive group whose emphasis is working with the equipment you have to get the results you desire.
With experienced, qualified and friendly people at the helm, we want to help you get off that Auto button and go from snaps to images!
Membership is open to everyone over 18. Our Meetings are held each Wednesday fortnight at 8pm in The Orchard Function Room, Cootehill Road, Drumalee Cross, Cavan Town, H12 T9X6, beginning Wed 18th January 2017.
* TWO FREE Introductory Beginner Courses available for
everyone who signs up before February 28 2017. "
Creativity and Change
Connecting the head hand and heart in practices to nurture global citizenship
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design's Creativity and Change programme offers an exciting range of 1 & 2 day workshops/ events for artists, educators, youth and community workers and anyone who is interested in creativity and it's power to ignite empathy, passion and learning about our interconnected and interdependent world. We believe creativity can help connect our head, hand and heart in transformative learning experiences.
Find out more and follow us on our facebook page.
If you have contacts or networks who may be interested please forward this email or share via facebook.
8. Global Citizenship Creative fairs
Start the year with inspiration and motivation!
CIT CCAD's Creativity and change programme invites you to join
us for the Global Citizenship Creative fairs/ Training days
where you will be engaged your passions and gather lots of creative tools and methods to bring to your workplace. It will take place
in Cork, Waterford, Limerick or Dublin
between Jan 19th and 27th
Find out more here
or on Creativity and Changes facebook page
Book your ticket here
Spring Workshop Series
A series of workshops (below) will take place in Cork during February and March.
Nominal ticket price of €40/ weekend workshop.
A limited, special discount combination ticket is available to receive €
40 discount if you attend all workshops.
Follow this link for combination ticket. Otherwise follow links below each workshop to get tickets.
ENGAGE///VISUALISE///SHARE
Eimear McNally
Feb 4th & 5th
Graphic Harvesting and Visual Facilitation: Using Visuals to Help You THINK better and MAKE Meaning to enhance engagement with Global citizenship themes
Find out more and get your ticket here
IMAGE///CAPTURE///ACTIVATE
Declan Sheridan
Feb 18th & 19th
Explore how to convey powerful Global Justice messages through metaphors and imagery using Photo Image Making & Stop Motion
Find out more and get your ticket here
ART///TRANSFORMATION///CITIZENSHIP
Sheelagh Broderick & Declan MacGonagle
March 3rd
A day of inputs, explorations and conversations about the potential of the artist as a citizen contributing to change in the world.
Find out more and get your ticket here
CONNECT///IMAGINE///CREATE
Susanne Bosch
March 4th & 5th
Connecting to imagine and create a better future for our world through meaningful dialogue: Who, what and how?
Find out more and get your ticket here
Creativity & Change
Crawford College of Art & Design,
Cork Institute of Technology
Follow us on
facebook
Email us at
creativityandchange@cit.ie
http://www.creativityandchange.info/
9. CAVAN LEADER TARGETED CALLS (Reminder)
Anyone interest in applying for LEADER funding for the following 3 strategic actions - don’t miss out closing date for receipt of Expression of Interest form is Tuesday 31st January, 2017.
Cavan LEADER Targeted Calls (Phase 1)
The LEADER Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 for County Cavan is open for Expressions of Interest (EOI) across the range of programme actions.
As previously indicated Cavan LEADER Local Action Group are now announcing details of the targeted (time limited) calls for submission of Expressions of Interest for the following three sub-themes.
RDP Theme
Sub-Theme
Strategic Action
Total Budget €
EOI Call Opens
EOI Call Closes
Economic Development, Enterprise Development & Job Creation
Rural Tourism
1.1.5 Support for sustainable tourism accommodation units & facilities - Renovation of existing or derelict buildings exclusively for B&Bs and Self-catering.
€300,000
30/11/2016
31/01/2017
Social Inclusion
Provision of Basic Services targeted at hard to reach communities
2.1.1 Construction and upgrading of new and existing community facilities
€600,000
30/11/2016
31/01/2017
Social Inclusion
Rural Youth
2.2.1 Purchase of equipment for sports, arts based, drama/music youth organisations.
€100,000
30/11/2016
31/01/2017
Maximum level of funding: 50% for Private Projects and 75% for Community Projects.
If you have a project idea that would come under any of the above 3 Strategic Actions, please contact Breffni Integrated CLG, Unit 6A Corlurgan Business Park, Ballinagh Road, Cavan, H12DP86 at 049-4331029, Extension 3 or email LEADER@breffniint.ie to request an ‘Expression of Interest Form’. For further details on this targeted process please refer to www.breffniint.ie www.cavancoco.ie www.cavancommunity.ie
If you have already submitted an Expression of Interest form which may be eligible under any of the above 3 Strategic Actions, these EOI forms will now be included in the targeted calls therefore there is no need to re-submit another EOI form.
NOTE: Potential projects covered by the above targeted calls will be ineligible under the ‘Open/Rolling Calls’ process for a period of six months following the closing date of these targeted calls.
Please note that all other RDP Themes are currently open on a rolling call basis.
Regards,
Elaine Halpin
Rural Development Manager
Breffni Integrated CLG
Unit 6a Corlurgan Business Park
Ballinagh Road
Cavan.
H12 DP86
+353 (0) 49 4331029 ext. 3
10. Computers For Farmers in West Cavan
Breffni Integrated and CMETB are arranging the following courses for Farmers in West Cavan and have a few spaces left. The course will be run in the Church Street Centre, Ballyconnell.
· QQI Level 3 Spreadsheets Wednesday night 7.00pm - 10.00pm commencing Wednesday 25th January 2017.
· QQI level 3 Internet and Email Thursday night 7.00pm - 10.00pm commencing Thursday 26th January 2017.
If you would like to book or find out more, please contact Sandy or Geraldine Tel: 071 9853321 Email:sholland@breffniint.ie
11. TOP TIPS FOR BRIDGING COMMUNITY BASED
CAPITAL GRANTS IN IRELAND
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the many changes we’ve seen over the last 20 plus years in this sector, one feature which continues to re-energise the enthusiasm of the Volunteer above many others, is the availability of Capital Grants from various sources.
With the recent announcement of €30m in Sports Capital Grant Aid in Ireland, as well as the current application process for Rural Development Programme funding, we in Community Finance (Ireland) thought this might be a good time to suggest the following “Top Tips for Bridging Community Based Capital Grants in Ireland.”
A slightly more detailed PDF on the matter is attached. We would be grateful if you could share this PDF (and indeed the email) among your network, with a view to ensuring the future allocation of Grant Aid is as hassle free, and cost effective, to Voluntary Groups as possible.
Should you or any of your colleagues wish to have Community Finance (Ireland) discuss the matter further, either with you, or in a forum setting, we would be keen to facilitate any such requests.
In the interim please feel free to visit www.communityfinance.ie for specific information on what we do and get a feel for the types of communities which have benefited from our assistance thus far.
Tip No. 1:
Identify where possible, the maximum number of stage payments you can agree with your Contractor AND Grant Provider, and subsequently draw, on a phased basis, from the latter.
Tip No. 2:
Where possible utilise YOUR OWN RESERVES to bridge this Grant Aid.
Tip No. 3:
Where Reserves are not an option – Source a Local Corporate “Sponsor” who may be agreeable to bridge the Grant interest free, on the understanding that the Capital will be repaid to them, upon payment of the grant to the Voluntary Group.
Tip No. 4:
Engage closely with the Grant Liaison Officer throughout the project development phase to ensure eligibility compliance.
Tip No. 5:
If you do need to access an Interest bearing, Loan Facility, “SHOP AROUND!” for the LOWEST possible rate!
Tip No. 6:
Do not leave applying for bridging finance to the last minute!
Tip No. 7:
Under no circumstances should Voluntary Directors or Trustees need to provide Personal Guarantees to access such Bridging Loans – Steer Clear of Such a Request!
Tip No. 8:
Be wary of additional charges, and ask for the APR. Do Not Pay Arrangement Fees on Bridging Loans.
Tip No. 9:
Budget for a possible delay in the eventual drawdown of the grant, and subsequent monthly interest costs.
Tip No. 10:
Wherever there is the slightest query with regard to Planning Permission or the possible exemption of same, GET IT IN WRITING before commencing works.
Tip No. 11:
If you are not incorporated as a Ltd. Company, (i.e. but rather a club or association), you must assign Trustees to borrow legally on the club’s behalf. They in turn must sign a Declaration of Trust.
Wishing you the very best for the New Year. Let’s All Pull Together Now!
Donal Traynor MBS LIB QFA
Associate Director
Tel: +353 (0) 41 6858637 Web: www.communityfinance.ie
Twitter: /@ComFinanceIrl
Facebook: Community Finance Ireland
Unit 16 Ardee Business Park, Hale St., Ardee, Co. Louth
12. Cavan Public Participation Network 2017 Workplan
Environment Sector - Declan Fitzpatrick & Heather Bothwell
- Launch a “Support Our Bees” campaign with Cavan Beekeepers Association.
- Engage Green Schools in a 21st Century Visioning exercise to see what future they want.
- Info flier on public/community gardens, public space, and bottle banks.
- Identify litter blackspot areas without deterrents and support deployment of such.
Social Inclusion Sector – Thomas Maughan & Marisa Goldstone
- Develop and support the concept of Youth Cafes in County Cavan (as per LECP)
- Sharing support services information with the community groups via info-flier:
(i) Mental Health Supports (ii) Diversity & Discrimination/Know Your Rights
(iii)Adult literacy supports (iv) Disability supports & rights.
- A Positive Mental Health Event in partnership with key actors.
- Community Health Training for groups
- PPN newsletter in larger print (14) with audio & online versions made available.
- Disability awareness and training.
Community & Voluntary Sector – Jim Reilly & Finian McNamara
- Small grants awareness and support in partnership with Cavan County Council.
- Continued support for the LECP (Local Economic Community Plan)
- Invite The Wheel/Charity Regulator to deliver “Registering As A Charity” Workshop.
- Develop a Community Youtube channel.
- 1st Aid training for groups.
- Tidy Towns Workshop/Annual get together or “think in” in partnership with Conor Craven.
- Support & make aware the First Responder strategy across the county.
- Publicize the Digital Strategy.
Cavan-Belturbet Municipal District – Eamon Donnelly & Thomas Smith
- A Tidy Towns Annual Workshop and sharing event.
- Overviews of existing Greenways & plan of Cavan based greenway.
- Geopark awareness support and liaise with Joanne Hayes to see how we can help.
Ballyjamesduff Municipal District – Noleen Brady Smith & Patricia O’Reilly
- Support any development of a Youth Cafe in the town.
- Local tourism consultation session from groups.
- Advertise/support after school study groups or drop in centres for youth.
- Engage younger people in Tidy Towns activities.
Bailieborough-Cootehill Municipal District – Angie McKenna & Theresa Walsh.
- Make aware the distance in the length of Cavan from Blacklion to Kingscourt (92kms)
Possible event spanning the distance?
- Illegal dumping signage in strategic/dumping blackspot areas.
- Increased awareness of defibulators deployed across the Muncipal District/County.
13. CavanPPN 2016 Report (see attached)
14. Community Radio Training (see attached)
15. Cavan Peace Partnership Fund Reminder
Cavan County Council is seeking applications for funding from the PEACE IV Programme under the following measure:
Building Positive Relations: Objective 4.1 ''Local Authority Action Plans Shared Spaces and Services Measure
Summary of CallCavan County Council is seeking applications from Community Groups, Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations or Statutory bodies.
Organisations are invited to submit project proposals with the following specific objective:The creation of a more cohesive society through an increased provision of shared space and services; Successful projects will develop Cross Community shared spaces of a transformative nature and that deal with the legacy of conflict.
A total of €963,385 (subject to funding being approved) may be allocated to this measure. The minimum level of funding available per project will be €200,000.
The timetable for the submission of applications is as follows:
This project/initiative is supported by the EU’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.
We have items listed below for you to read, peruse or skip at your leisure and if you wish to have your news advertised then let us know prior to the 20th of each month for dispatch on cavanppn@gmail.com We also place it all on our facebook page and website www.cavancommunity.ie
We hope this information reaches you and your community group. Please let us know if your groups details change to keep our database up to date.
Kind Regards
Daniel Downey
CavanPPN Coordinator
Contents
1. Winter 2017 Poetry Workshop
2. Clan Credo LEADER Loan Funding
3. Local Artists Seek Local Stories
4. Local SafeTalk and Assist Training
5. Irish Sign Language Courses
6. Better Energy Communities Reminder
7. New GoPro Photo Club in Cavan
8. Global Citizenship Creative Fairs
9. Cavan LEADER Targeted Calls Reminder
10. Computers For Farmers, West Cavan.
11. Top Tips For Bridging Community Based Capital Grants in Ireland
12. CavanPPN 2017 Workplan
13. CavanPPN 2016 Report (attached)
14. Community Radio Training (attached)
15. Cavan Peace Partnership Fund Reminder (criteria & forms attached)
1. Winter 2017 Poetry Workshop
Poetry Workshop every Wednesday from 25 Jan to Wed 15 March 2017in Cavan Town
Facilitated by Kate Ennals
Seamus Heany thought that poetry provided a ‘glimpse’ of the alternative and ‘redressed’ spiritual balance. He believed that poems functioned as a counterweight to hostile or oppressive forces in the world. Maybe we should start 2017 with poetry. An eight week poetry workshop will be facilitated by Kate Ennals every Wednesday evening from Wed 25 January to 15 March between 7pm and 9pm in Swellan, Cavan Town with tea and cakes.
The workshop will be based on a mix of themes and forms. Kate will provide poems for discussion, and set poetry assignments which the group will workshop each week. The aim is to bring together local poets/writers to stimulate and develop their work. There will be a limit of eight participants allocated on a first come, first served basis. Cost is €80 payable at first workshop. Deposit €25
For further information and to register, contact Kate Ennals on 0863737847 or email kateennals@live.co.uk.
Note to Editors
Kate Ennals is a poet and short story writer. Her first poetry collection, AT The Edge, came out in September 2015, published by Lapwing. She has been published in various literary publications such as Crannog, Skylight 47, Burning Bush 2, The Galway Review, Ropes, Boyne Berries, North West Words, New Ulster Anthology, The International Lakeview Journal and featured in The Spark. Her work was shortlisted (and performed) in the Claremorris Fringe festival, the Swift Festival, in the Doolin Short Story competition in 2014, and the Stephen King short story competition, 2015. She also run AT The Edge, Cavan, a literary evening.
2. CLAN CREDO LEADER LOAN FUND
Clann Credo €25 Million Community LEADER Loan Fund Launch and Workshop 6th February 2017
Clann Credo are also hosting a FREE Funding and Community Loan Finance Workshop on the afternoon of 6th Februaryfor attendees from 2pm-4.30pm at Virginia Show Centre in Virginia, Co. Cavan. This could be very useful for community groups planning to apply for a LEADER Grant.
Spring is a time for renewal and growth and Clann Credo aims to help community and voluntary groups, charities, and amateur sports clubs to grow and to strengthen communities nationwide.
The LEADER Grants help community groups realise their big project ideas. Bridging Finance and Match Funding can be obstacles for groups trying to avail of LEADER Grants, but Clann Credo Community Loans help ensure that finance should not be an issue.
We would like to invite you to the Launch of Clann Credo’s €25 million LEADER Loan Fund on Monday the 6th February at 10.30am.
We are delighted that Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Heather Humphreys, TD will be launching the Clann Credo’s €25 million LEADER Loan Fund at Virginia Show Centre in Virginia, Co. Cavan. There will be other speakers at the launch representing: Clann Credo; The Irish Local Development Network; The Local Community Development Committees and the Virginia Show Centre.
We are also hosting a FREE Funding and Community Loan Finance Workshop on the afternoon of 6th February for attendees from 2pm-4.30pm. This would be very useful for community groups planning to apply for a LEADER Grant. Speakers will include representatives from: Clann Credo; Cavan LCDC; The Fundraising Sector; Brefni Integrated Limited and the Acre Project, Co. Meath.
You could attend either the morning or afternoon events or both. Refreshments will be provided.
This event is open to everyone, so if you are in a position to spread the word, please pass on this invitation through your networks.
To register on Eventbrite and for more information click here
Looking forward to meeting you there,
Paul O'Sullivan, Clann Credo CEO
3. LOCAL ARTISTS SEEK STORIES
Pawel and Kasia Kleszczewski are two Polish artists who have been living here in Cavan for many years. They are embarking on a project to collect local folk talesand stories relating to water in County Cavan and her borders. They are really keen to meet anyone who might have some stories to share so if you are interested in getting involved or having your story recorded, please get in touch with Pawel or Kasia at e: kleszczewski.mail@gmail.com
Click here for further information http://visualartists.ie/listings/exhib-ulster/in-the-beginning-was-water-kasia-zimnoch-and-pawel-kleszczewski-on-residency-at-townhall-cavan/
4. safeTALK and ASIST Training
Please see below dates of upcoming safeTALK and ASIST Training for staff working in Cavan and Monaghan. Further information and application forms are attached. Please circulate this information to your staff, colleagues and members of your networks. Please encourage staff to submit applications in advance of the closing dates noted.
Training
Date
Location
Time
Closing date for Applications
safeTALK
Wednesday 8th February 2017
Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Cavan
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 27th January 2017
safeTALK
Wednesday 15th March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Friday 3rd March 2017
ASIST
Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd March 2017
Child Wellbeing Centre, Castleblayney
Link to map of location
9.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. x 2 days
(Tea/Coffee & Lunch provided)
Friday 17th February 2017
Best regards,
Emer
Emer Mulligan
Resource Officer for Suicide Prevention
HSE Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Services
Carrickmacross Primary Care Centre
Donaghmoyne Road
Carrickmacross
Co Monaghan
Tel: 086 1717 563
5. IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE COURSES
Please see attached details of upcoming Irish Sign Language course to be run by the Irish Deaf Society in the Bridge Street Centre over the course of 15 Wednesday evenings, 6.30pm-8.00pm, from 31st January. (see attached for more details)
The accredited QQI/FETAC Level 3 classes are 15 weeks (1.5 hours per class)
Cost: €200.00 per learner (excluding €50.00 optional examination fee)
Payments must be paid by 18th January
More details: https://www.irishdeafsociety.ie/irish-sign-language/booking-an-irish-sign-language-classes/
Please forward to any persons or groups you think may be interested.
6. BETTER ENERGY COMMUNITIES
Better Energy Communities 2017 was officially launched on 6th December by Denis Naughten T.D., Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment. SEAI will offer €30 million in grant supports for community energy projects in 2017. This represents a 50% increase in funding from the 2016 grant levels - an additional €10 million for this. The scheme, which is administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), has supported 300 community energy efficiency projects over the last five years. (http://www.seai.ie/Grants/Better_Energy_Communities/)
Important Dates for Better Energy Communities 2017
· 19th December 2016: Application form available to download
· Mid Jan 2017: Applications can be submitted
· 17th February 2017: Deadline for receipt of Applications
· April 2017: Notification of successful projects
· 13th October 2017: Project completion
7. New GoPro Photography Group in Cavan
"GoPro Photography Cavan is a new, vibrant, up & coming Photography Group for enthusiasts who want to learn, improve and perfect their Photography.
We are an all inclusive group whose emphasis is working with the equipment you have to get the results you desire.
With experienced, qualified and friendly people at the helm, we want to help you get off that Auto button and go from snaps to images!
Membership is open to everyone over 18. Our Meetings are held each Wednesday fortnight at 8pm in The Orchard Function Room, Cootehill Road, Drumalee Cross, Cavan Town, H12 T9X6, beginning Wed 18th January 2017.
* TWO FREE Introductory Beginner Courses available for
everyone who signs up before February 28 2017. "
Creativity and Change
Connecting the head hand and heart in practices to nurture global citizenship
CIT Crawford College of Art and Design's Creativity and Change programme offers an exciting range of 1 & 2 day workshops/ events for artists, educators, youth and community workers and anyone who is interested in creativity and it's power to ignite empathy, passion and learning about our interconnected and interdependent world. We believe creativity can help connect our head, hand and heart in transformative learning experiences.
Find out more and follow us on our facebook page.
If you have contacts or networks who may be interested please forward this email or share via facebook.
8. Global Citizenship Creative fairs
Start the year with inspiration and motivation!
CIT CCAD's Creativity and change programme invites you to join
us for the Global Citizenship Creative fairs/ Training days
where you will be engaged your passions and gather lots of creative tools and methods to bring to your workplace. It will take place
in Cork, Waterford, Limerick or Dublin
between Jan 19th and 27th
Find out more here
or on Creativity and Changes facebook page
Book your ticket here
Spring Workshop Series
A series of workshops (below) will take place in Cork during February and March.
Nominal ticket price of €40/ weekend workshop.
A limited, special discount combination ticket is available to receive €
40 discount if you attend all workshops.
Follow this link for combination ticket. Otherwise follow links below each workshop to get tickets.
ENGAGE///VISUALISE///SHARE
Eimear McNally
Feb 4th & 5th
Graphic Harvesting and Visual Facilitation: Using Visuals to Help You THINK better and MAKE Meaning to enhance engagement with Global citizenship themes
Find out more and get your ticket here
IMAGE///CAPTURE///ACTIVATE
Declan Sheridan
Feb 18th & 19th
Explore how to convey powerful Global Justice messages through metaphors and imagery using Photo Image Making & Stop Motion
Find out more and get your ticket here
ART///TRANSFORMATION///CITIZENSHIP
Sheelagh Broderick & Declan MacGonagle
March 3rd
A day of inputs, explorations and conversations about the potential of the artist as a citizen contributing to change in the world.
Find out more and get your ticket here
CONNECT///IMAGINE///CREATE
Susanne Bosch
March 4th & 5th
Connecting to imagine and create a better future for our world through meaningful dialogue: Who, what and how?
Find out more and get your ticket here
Creativity & Change
Crawford College of Art & Design,
Cork Institute of Technology
Follow us on
Email us at
creativityandchange@cit.ie
http://www.creativityandchange.info/
9. CAVAN LEADER TARGETED CALLS (Reminder)
Anyone interest in applying for LEADER funding for the following 3 strategic actions - don’t miss out closing date for receipt of Expression of Interest form is Tuesday 31st January, 2017.
Cavan LEADER Targeted Calls (Phase 1)
The LEADER Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 for County Cavan is open for Expressions of Interest (EOI) across the range of programme actions.
As previously indicated Cavan LEADER Local Action Group are now announcing details of the targeted (time limited) calls for submission of Expressions of Interest for the following three sub-themes.
RDP Theme
Sub-Theme
Strategic Action
Total Budget €
EOI Call Opens
EOI Call Closes
Economic Development, Enterprise Development & Job Creation
Rural Tourism
1.1.5 Support for sustainable tourism accommodation units & facilities - Renovation of existing or derelict buildings exclusively for B&Bs and Self-catering.
€300,000
30/11/2016
31/01/2017
Social Inclusion
Provision of Basic Services targeted at hard to reach communities
2.1.1 Construction and upgrading of new and existing community facilities
€600,000
30/11/2016
31/01/2017
Social Inclusion
Rural Youth
2.2.1 Purchase of equipment for sports, arts based, drama/music youth organisations.
€100,000
30/11/2016
31/01/2017
Maximum level of funding: 50% for Private Projects and 75% for Community Projects.
If you have a project idea that would come under any of the above 3 Strategic Actions, please contact Breffni Integrated CLG, Unit 6A Corlurgan Business Park, Ballinagh Road, Cavan, H12DP86 at 049-4331029, Extension 3 or email LEADER@breffniint.ie to request an ‘Expression of Interest Form’. For further details on this targeted process please refer to www.breffniint.ie www.cavancoco.ie www.cavancommunity.ie
If you have already submitted an Expression of Interest form which may be eligible under any of the above 3 Strategic Actions, these EOI forms will now be included in the targeted calls therefore there is no need to re-submit another EOI form.
NOTE: Potential projects covered by the above targeted calls will be ineligible under the ‘Open/Rolling Calls’ process for a period of six months following the closing date of these targeted calls.
Please note that all other RDP Themes are currently open on a rolling call basis.
Regards,
Elaine Halpin
Rural Development Manager
Breffni Integrated CLG
Unit 6a Corlurgan Business Park
Ballinagh Road
Cavan.
H12 DP86
+353 (0) 49 4331029 ext. 3
10. Computers For Farmers in West Cavan
Breffni Integrated and CMETB are arranging the following courses for Farmers in West Cavan and have a few spaces left. The course will be run in the Church Street Centre, Ballyconnell.
· QQI Level 3 Spreadsheets Wednesday night 7.00pm - 10.00pm commencing Wednesday 25th January 2017.
· QQI level 3 Internet and Email Thursday night 7.00pm - 10.00pm commencing Thursday 26th January 2017.
If you would like to book or find out more, please contact Sandy or Geraldine Tel: 071 9853321 Email:sholland@breffniint.ie
11. TOP TIPS FOR BRIDGING COMMUNITY BASED
CAPITAL GRANTS IN IRELAND
Dear Colleagues,
Despite the many changes we’ve seen over the last 20 plus years in this sector, one feature which continues to re-energise the enthusiasm of the Volunteer above many others, is the availability of Capital Grants from various sources.
With the recent announcement of €30m in Sports Capital Grant Aid in Ireland, as well as the current application process for Rural Development Programme funding, we in Community Finance (Ireland) thought this might be a good time to suggest the following “Top Tips for Bridging Community Based Capital Grants in Ireland.”
A slightly more detailed PDF on the matter is attached. We would be grateful if you could share this PDF (and indeed the email) among your network, with a view to ensuring the future allocation of Grant Aid is as hassle free, and cost effective, to Voluntary Groups as possible.
Should you or any of your colleagues wish to have Community Finance (Ireland) discuss the matter further, either with you, or in a forum setting, we would be keen to facilitate any such requests.
In the interim please feel free to visit www.communityfinance.ie for specific information on what we do and get a feel for the types of communities which have benefited from our assistance thus far.
Tip No. 1:
Identify where possible, the maximum number of stage payments you can agree with your Contractor AND Grant Provider, and subsequently draw, on a phased basis, from the latter.
Tip No. 2:
Where possible utilise YOUR OWN RESERVES to bridge this Grant Aid.
Tip No. 3:
Where Reserves are not an option – Source a Local Corporate “Sponsor” who may be agreeable to bridge the Grant interest free, on the understanding that the Capital will be repaid to them, upon payment of the grant to the Voluntary Group.
Tip No. 4:
Engage closely with the Grant Liaison Officer throughout the project development phase to ensure eligibility compliance.
Tip No. 5:
If you do need to access an Interest bearing, Loan Facility, “SHOP AROUND!” for the LOWEST possible rate!
Tip No. 6:
Do not leave applying for bridging finance to the last minute!
Tip No. 7:
Under no circumstances should Voluntary Directors or Trustees need to provide Personal Guarantees to access such Bridging Loans – Steer Clear of Such a Request!
Tip No. 8:
Be wary of additional charges, and ask for the APR. Do Not Pay Arrangement Fees on Bridging Loans.
Tip No. 9:
Budget for a possible delay in the eventual drawdown of the grant, and subsequent monthly interest costs.
Tip No. 10:
Wherever there is the slightest query with regard to Planning Permission or the possible exemption of same, GET IT IN WRITING before commencing works.
Tip No. 11:
If you are not incorporated as a Ltd. Company, (i.e. but rather a club or association), you must assign Trustees to borrow legally on the club’s behalf. They in turn must sign a Declaration of Trust.
Wishing you the very best for the New Year. Let’s All Pull Together Now!
Donal Traynor MBS LIB QFA
Associate Director
Tel: +353 (0) 41 6858637 Web: www.communityfinance.ie
Twitter: /@ComFinanceIrl
Facebook: Community Finance Ireland
Unit 16 Ardee Business Park, Hale St., Ardee, Co. Louth
12. Cavan Public Participation Network 2017 Workplan
Environment Sector - Declan Fitzpatrick & Heather Bothwell
- Launch a “Support Our Bees” campaign with Cavan Beekeepers Association.
- Engage Green Schools in a 21st Century Visioning exercise to see what future they want.
- Info flier on public/community gardens, public space, and bottle banks.
- Identify litter blackspot areas without deterrents and support deployment of such.
Social Inclusion Sector – Thomas Maughan & Marisa Goldstone
- Develop and support the concept of Youth Cafes in County Cavan (as per LECP)
- Sharing support services information with the community groups via info-flier:
(i) Mental Health Supports (ii) Diversity & Discrimination/Know Your Rights
(iii)Adult literacy supports (iv) Disability supports & rights.
- A Positive Mental Health Event in partnership with key actors.
- Community Health Training for groups
- PPN newsletter in larger print (14) with audio & online versions made available.
- Disability awareness and training.
Community & Voluntary Sector – Jim Reilly & Finian McNamara
- Small grants awareness and support in partnership with Cavan County Council.
- Continued support for the LECP (Local Economic Community Plan)
- Invite The Wheel/Charity Regulator to deliver “Registering As A Charity” Workshop.
- Develop a Community Youtube channel.
- 1st Aid training for groups.
- Tidy Towns Workshop/Annual get together or “think in” in partnership with Conor Craven.
- Support & make aware the First Responder strategy across the county.
- Publicize the Digital Strategy.
Cavan-Belturbet Municipal District – Eamon Donnelly & Thomas Smith
- A Tidy Towns Annual Workshop and sharing event.
- Overviews of existing Greenways & plan of Cavan based greenway.
- Geopark awareness support and liaise with Joanne Hayes to see how we can help.
Ballyjamesduff Municipal District – Noleen Brady Smith & Patricia O’Reilly
- Support any development of a Youth Cafe in the town.
- Local tourism consultation session from groups.
- Advertise/support after school study groups or drop in centres for youth.
- Engage younger people in Tidy Towns activities.
Bailieborough-Cootehill Municipal District – Angie McKenna & Theresa Walsh.
- Make aware the distance in the length of Cavan from Blacklion to Kingscourt (92kms)
Possible event spanning the distance?
- Illegal dumping signage in strategic/dumping blackspot areas.
- Increased awareness of defibulators deployed across the Muncipal District/County.
13. CavanPPN 2016 Report (see attached)
14. Community Radio Training (see attached)
15. Cavan Peace Partnership Fund Reminder
Cavan County Council is seeking applications for funding from the PEACE IV Programme under the following measure:
Building Positive Relations: Objective 4.1 ''Local Authority Action Plans Shared Spaces and Services Measure
Summary of CallCavan County Council is seeking applications from Community Groups, Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations or Statutory bodies.
Organisations are invited to submit project proposals with the following specific objective:The creation of a more cohesive society through an increased provision of shared space and services; Successful projects will develop Cross Community shared spaces of a transformative nature and that deal with the legacy of conflict.
A total of €963,385 (subject to funding being approved) may be allocated to this measure. The minimum level of funding available per project will be €200,000.
The timetable for the submission of applications is as follows:
- Opening Date: Wednesday, 14 December 2016
- Closing Date: Friday, 27 January 2017
- Download: Application forms and Guidelines here
- Call/Email: Contact Jane Crudden on 049 437 8585 or email jcrudden@cavancoco.ie
This project/initiative is supported by the EU’s PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.
Computers for Farming (must have herd Number) Fetec Level 3 Spreadsheets. Spaces available in Ballyconnell Church Street Centre Wednesday nights 7pm - 10pm. Contact Sandy Holland: 0877667637 |
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2017 Workplan for the CavanPPN
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Cavan Public Participation Network 2017 Workplan
In Attendance: Thomas Smith, Finian McNamara, Declan Fitzpatrick, Eamon Donnelly, Jim Reilly, Bob Gilbert, Helen O’Reilly, Olive Hannigan, Brian McDermott, Patricia O’Reilly, David Cahill, Ron Reilly. Facilitated by Daniel Downey, PPN Coordinator.
Drawing on a facilitated session with the CavanPPN Secretariat members (listed above) the following are the aims, objectives & suggestions by the community representatives for the work of the PPN in 2017. It was agreed to allocate €1000 to each of the Sectors/Municipal Districts to work on this from within the PPN budget to empower and support the representatives.
Environment Sector
- Launch a “Support Our Bees” campaign with Cavan Beekeepers Association.
- Engage Green Schools in a 21st Century Visioning exercise to see what future they want.
- Info flier on public/community gardens, public space, and bottle banks.
- Identify litter blackspot areas without deterrents and support deployment of such.
Social Inclusion Sector
- Develop and support the concept of Youth Cafes in County Cavan (as per LECP)
- Sharing support services information with the community groups via info-flier:
(i) Mental Health Supports (ii) Diversity & Discrimination/Know Your Rights
(iii)Adult literacy supports (iv) Disability supports & rights.
- A Positive Mental Health Event in partnership with key actors.
- Community Health Training for groups
- PPN newsletter in larger print (14) with audio & online versions made available.
- Disability awareness and training.
Community & Voluntary Sector
- Small grants awareness and support in partnership with Cavan County Council.
- Continued support for the LECP (Local Economic Community Plan)
- Invite The Wheel/Charity Regulator to deliver “Registering As A Charity” Workshop.
- Develop a Community Youtube channel.
- 1st Aid training for groups.
- Tidy Towns Workshop/Annual get together or “think in” in partnership with Conor Craven.
- Support & make aware the First Responder strategy across the county.
- Publicize the Digital Strategy.
Cavan-Belturbet Municipal District
- A Tidy Towns Annual Workshop and sharing event.
- Overviews of existing Greenways & plan of Cavan based greenway.
- Geopark awareness support and liaise with Joanne Hayes to see how we can help.
Ballyjamesduff Municipal District
- Support any development of a Youth Cafe in the town.
- Local tourism consultation session from groups.
- Advertise/support after school study groups or drop in centres for youth.
- Engage younger people in Tidy Towns activities.
Bailieborough-Cootehill Municipal District
- Make aware the distance in the length of Cavan from Blacklion to Kingscourt (192kms)
Possible event spanning the distance?
- Illegal dumping signage in strategic/dumping blackspot areas.
- Increased awareness of defibulators deployed across the Muncipal District/County.
In Attendance: Thomas Smith, Finian McNamara, Declan Fitzpatrick, Eamon Donnelly, Jim Reilly, Bob Gilbert, Helen O’Reilly, Olive Hannigan, Brian McDermott, Patricia O’Reilly, David Cahill, Ron Reilly. Facilitated by Daniel Downey, PPN Coordinator.
Drawing on a facilitated session with the CavanPPN Secretariat members (listed above) the following are the aims, objectives & suggestions by the community representatives for the work of the PPN in 2017. It was agreed to allocate €1000 to each of the Sectors/Municipal Districts to work on this from within the PPN budget to empower and support the representatives.
Environment Sector
- Launch a “Support Our Bees” campaign with Cavan Beekeepers Association.
- Engage Green Schools in a 21st Century Visioning exercise to see what future they want.
- Info flier on public/community gardens, public space, and bottle banks.
- Identify litter blackspot areas without deterrents and support deployment of such.
Social Inclusion Sector
- Develop and support the concept of Youth Cafes in County Cavan (as per LECP)
- Sharing support services information with the community groups via info-flier:
(i) Mental Health Supports (ii) Diversity & Discrimination/Know Your Rights
(iii)Adult literacy supports (iv) Disability supports & rights.
- A Positive Mental Health Event in partnership with key actors.
- Community Health Training for groups
- PPN newsletter in larger print (14) with audio & online versions made available.
- Disability awareness and training.
Community & Voluntary Sector
- Small grants awareness and support in partnership with Cavan County Council.
- Continued support for the LECP (Local Economic Community Plan)
- Invite The Wheel/Charity Regulator to deliver “Registering As A Charity” Workshop.
- Develop a Community Youtube channel.
- 1st Aid training for groups.
- Tidy Towns Workshop/Annual get together or “think in” in partnership with Conor Craven.
- Support & make aware the First Responder strategy across the county.
- Publicize the Digital Strategy.
Cavan-Belturbet Municipal District
- A Tidy Towns Annual Workshop and sharing event.
- Overviews of existing Greenways & plan of Cavan based greenway.
- Geopark awareness support and liaise with Joanne Hayes to see how we can help.
Ballyjamesduff Municipal District
- Support any development of a Youth Cafe in the town.
- Local tourism consultation session from groups.
- Advertise/support after school study groups or drop in centres for youth.
- Engage younger people in Tidy Towns activities.
Bailieborough-Cootehill Municipal District
- Make aware the distance in the length of Cavan from Blacklion to Kingscourt (192kms)
Possible event spanning the distance?
- Illegal dumping signage in strategic/dumping blackspot areas.
- Increased awareness of defibulators deployed across the Muncipal District/County.
CavanPPN in 2016!!!!
Cavan Public Participation Network End of Year Workers Report
Here is a summary of the actions of the PPN from 2016, facilitated by the Coordinator.
6 Secretariat Meetings
6 Officers/Directors Meetings
2 Plenary Events: 2nd April & 1st September
Co-establishment of Social Enterprise Forum with Terry Hyland.
Organise & man Taste of Cavan Stall: 12th & 13th August.
Organise and launch Congolese Refugee Exhibition and book.
Assist members in organising 1916 play.
Writing & printing 3 x newsletters (Spring x 500, Summer x 1000 and Autumn x 500)
Establishment of the Volunteer Information Service
Writing and sending of 18 Community E-News Editions.
Hosting of Africa Day Multicultural Event: 2nd June
4 National Workers Meetings with Department.
1 Regional PPN Meeting hosted in Cavan.
Elections: LEADER Evaluation Subcommittee (interview process)
LCDC Elections
Disability Network Elections
PPN Secretariat AGM and elections at Plenary Event September 1st.
Breffni Integrated Representative Elections.
Training: Men’s Shed Grant Forms and Language Training 27th Jan
Radio Volunteers Training 10th Feb
Grant Workshop to Community Groups 11th Feb
“ Sustainable Funding” Workshop 15th Feb
“Getting Your Garden Growing” 18th Feb
Setting Up A Community Group 14th March
How To Establish A Network (Bowls Groups) 23rd March
Faroige Community & Radio Training 18th,25th&29th April
Drugs & Alcohol Secretariat Training 26th April
SAFETALK Secretariat Training 5th May
Templeport Community Group Animation 7th June
LA21 Training 13th June
SAOR Addiction Studied Training 10th September
PPN Special Training (“What is the PPN? 27th Sept, 3rd,10th&17th Nov
“Directors Responsibilities”, “Good Governance”
“Animation & Energizing Your Group”)
Here is a summary of the actions of the PPN from 2016, facilitated by the Coordinator.
6 Secretariat Meetings
6 Officers/Directors Meetings
2 Plenary Events: 2nd April & 1st September
Co-establishment of Social Enterprise Forum with Terry Hyland.
Organise & man Taste of Cavan Stall: 12th & 13th August.
Organise and launch Congolese Refugee Exhibition and book.
Assist members in organising 1916 play.
Writing & printing 3 x newsletters (Spring x 500, Summer x 1000 and Autumn x 500)
Establishment of the Volunteer Information Service
Writing and sending of 18 Community E-News Editions.
Hosting of Africa Day Multicultural Event: 2nd June
4 National Workers Meetings with Department.
1 Regional PPN Meeting hosted in Cavan.
Elections: LEADER Evaluation Subcommittee (interview process)
LCDC Elections
Disability Network Elections
PPN Secretariat AGM and elections at Plenary Event September 1st.
Breffni Integrated Representative Elections.
Training: Men’s Shed Grant Forms and Language Training 27th Jan
Radio Volunteers Training 10th Feb
Grant Workshop to Community Groups 11th Feb
“ Sustainable Funding” Workshop 15th Feb
“Getting Your Garden Growing” 18th Feb
Setting Up A Community Group 14th March
How To Establish A Network (Bowls Groups) 23rd March
Faroige Community & Radio Training 18th,25th&29th April
Drugs & Alcohol Secretariat Training 26th April
SAFETALK Secretariat Training 5th May
Templeport Community Group Animation 7th June
LA21 Training 13th June
SAOR Addiction Studied Training 10th September
PPN Special Training (“What is the PPN? 27th Sept, 3rd,10th&17th Nov
“Directors Responsibilities”, “Good Governance”
“Animation & Energizing Your Group”)
The first branch outing of the New Year will take place on Sunday 8th January. We will meet up at 10am at Drumlane Abbey car park, Milltown. At Miltown lake, we hope to see a selection of waterbirds including some whooper swans. We will also carry out I-WeBS (Irish Wetland Bird Survey) counts on Milltown Lake and other lakes in the area. It is recommended to wear warm waterproof clothing and appropriate footwear. Beginners and non-members are very welcome to attend all events! For information on The Irish Wetland Bird Survey click here To become a member of Birdwatch Ireland click here
DECEMBER COMMUNITY FOCUS E-NEws
1, €498,184 Clár Funding
2. Cavan Peace Funding Open
3. Cavan LEADER Open
4. Cavan Community Radio Needs YOU
5. Community Transformation IS BACK!!!
6. Focus KIlleshandra Courses
1. €498,184 Clár Funding has been approved by Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Type of works to be done are Pedestrian Crossings, Upgrading of road markings/Safety Signage and Playgrounds/Games area. For listing areas/works to be done click here http://bit.ly/2gFEfTk
2. PEACE IV Programme: Expressions of Interest sought for Objective 4.1 Building Positive Relations. The minimum level of funding available per project will be €200,000.
Applications open from Wed 14 Dec and closing on 27 Jan 2017. To download application form and guidelines click here: http://bit.ly/2htwMXE
3. Cavan LEADER (Phase 1) Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 is open for Expressions of Interest (EOI) across the range of programme actions. Phase 1 Budget €1M maximum level of funding: 50% for Private Projects and 75% for Community Projects.
For more information, forms etc http://bit.ly/2h1XOsT. Closing date 31st Jan 2017
4. Cavan Community Online Radio are looking for new voluntary hosts,if you have an idea,or know someone that would fit the bill for a show,whether it is music,sport or talk related then drop us a message and become a presenter with times that suit you....no experience necessary,just your voice and ideas needed!
5. Community Transformation is back and it’s bigger and better than before! Kick start your new year and join one of the communities in Cootehill, Kilnaleck or Virginia for Community Transformation 2017. http://bit.ly/2gJdo97
6. Focus Killeshandra Courses:
Upcoming Courses January 2017.
(Pending Numbers)
Beginners Computers
Starting Wednesday 18/01/2017
9.30AM—12.30pm
Introduction to Healthcare Support
(Level 4 Module) Starting Tuesday 10/01/2017 9.30am-4pm for 12 weeks
Employability Skills
1 year level 3 full Award covering career planning , personal/ interpersonal skills,
retail skills Monday & Thursday mornings
9.30—1.30pm starting 16/01/17
Introduction to Ipads/Mobile phones/Social Media
Starting Monday 16/01/17 7-9pm
(6week course)
Electrical Skills
Level 3 Accredited starting 17/01/17 Tuesday &
Thursday Evenings in Mens Shed
7pm—10pm (8-10weeks)
Spreadsheets
Level 3 Tuesday 10/01/17
Culinary Operations (Cookery)
Level 3 Thursday 12/01/17
9.30—1.30pm
Contact us to book your place on
0494364065
2. Cavan Peace Funding Open
3. Cavan LEADER Open
4. Cavan Community Radio Needs YOU
5. Community Transformation IS BACK!!!
6. Focus KIlleshandra Courses
1. €498,184 Clár Funding has been approved by Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Type of works to be done are Pedestrian Crossings, Upgrading of road markings/Safety Signage and Playgrounds/Games area. For listing areas/works to be done click here http://bit.ly/2gFEfTk
2. PEACE IV Programme: Expressions of Interest sought for Objective 4.1 Building Positive Relations. The minimum level of funding available per project will be €200,000.
Applications open from Wed 14 Dec and closing on 27 Jan 2017. To download application form and guidelines click here: http://bit.ly/2htwMXE
3. Cavan LEADER (Phase 1) Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 is open for Expressions of Interest (EOI) across the range of programme actions. Phase 1 Budget €1M maximum level of funding: 50% for Private Projects and 75% for Community Projects.
For more information, forms etc http://bit.ly/2h1XOsT. Closing date 31st Jan 2017
4. Cavan Community Online Radio are looking for new voluntary hosts,if you have an idea,or know someone that would fit the bill for a show,whether it is music,sport or talk related then drop us a message and become a presenter with times that suit you....no experience necessary,just your voice and ideas needed!
5. Community Transformation is back and it’s bigger and better than before! Kick start your new year and join one of the communities in Cootehill, Kilnaleck or Virginia for Community Transformation 2017. http://bit.ly/2gJdo97
6. Focus Killeshandra Courses:
Upcoming Courses January 2017.
(Pending Numbers)
Beginners Computers
Starting Wednesday 18/01/2017
9.30AM—12.30pm
Introduction to Healthcare Support
(Level 4 Module) Starting Tuesday 10/01/2017 9.30am-4pm for 12 weeks
Employability Skills
1 year level 3 full Award covering career planning , personal/ interpersonal skills,
retail skills Monday & Thursday mornings
9.30—1.30pm starting 16/01/17
Introduction to Ipads/Mobile phones/Social Media
Starting Monday 16/01/17 7-9pm
(6week course)
Electrical Skills
Level 3 Accredited starting 17/01/17 Tuesday &
Thursday Evenings in Mens Shed
7pm—10pm (8-10weeks)
Spreadsheets
Level 3 Tuesday 10/01/17
Culinary Operations (Cookery)
Level 3 Thursday 12/01/17
9.30—1.30pm
Contact us to book your place on
0494364065
Local festivals and events can now apply for funding under Failte Ireland’s Regional Festivals Programme
Cavan and Monaghan festivals and events can now apply for funding under Fáilte Ireland’s Regional Festivals Programme.
The funding aims to support festivals and events which drive local tourism and help to improve the experience on the ground by bringing Ireland to life for the visitors.
The scheme last year supported 205 events across the country to the value of over €690k.
Applications opened on December 5th and will close at noon on January 16th.
The funding aims to support festivals and events which drive local tourism and help to improve the experience on the ground by bringing Ireland to life for the visitors.
The scheme last year supported 205 events across the country to the value of over €690k.
Applications opened on December 5th and will close at noon on January 16th.
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€498,184 Clár Funding has been approved by Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Type of works to be done are Pedestrian Crossings, Upgrading of road markings/Safety Signage and Playgrounds/Games area. For listing areas/works to be done click here http://bit.ly/2gFEfTk |
PEACE IV Programme: Expressions of Interest sought for Objective 4.1 Building Positive Relations. The minimum level of funding available per project will be €200,000.
Applications open from Wed 14 Dec and closing on 27 Jan 2017. To download application form and guidelines click here: http://bit.ly/2htwMXE
Applications open from Wed 14 Dec and closing on 27 Jan 2017. To download application form and guidelines click here: http://bit.ly/2htwMXE
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Community Transformation is back and it’s bigger and better than before! Kick start your new year and join one of the communities in Cootehill, Kilnaleck or Virginia for Community Transformation 2017. http://bit.ly/2gJdo97 |
LEADER CALLS FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Notice of the
County Cavan Joint Policing Committee
Annual Public Meeting
A public meeting of the County Cavan Joint Policing Committee will be held in the Cavan Crystal Hotel on: Tuesday, 6th December 2016 from 7pm to 9pm.
The meeting will focus on the following topics:
Any queries in relation to this meeting please contact 049 4378586 or e-mail gboyle@cavancoco.ie.
County Cavan Joint Policing Committee
Annual Public Meeting
A public meeting of the County Cavan Joint Policing Committee will be held in the Cavan Crystal Hotel on: Tuesday, 6th December 2016 from 7pm to 9pm.
The meeting will focus on the following topics:
- Victims of Crime
- Operation Thor
- Consultation workshop for the County Cavan JPC Strategic Plan
Any queries in relation to this meeting please contact 049 4378586 or e-mail gboyle@cavancoco.ie.
Support Our Local Cavan Down Syndrome Branch
To whom it may concern,
I am writing on behalf of Cavan Down Syndrome Branch. We are a small local charity that provide a range of supports and services to children, adolescents and adults with Down syndrome and their families in Cavan and the surrounding area. We receive no funding from the government and we are fully reliant on donations and fundraising to support our work, so every penny really will make a difference.
Some of the essential support services that we are working hard to provide are:
- · A homeschool pre-school teacher service: This early intervention is vital to the development and progress for our children at pre-school level and helps to prepare them for starting school.
- · Speech and Language Therapy: This is a vital service for our children. It empowers them to communicate and helps to aid clear speech so that others can understand them. It Promotes positive relationships with others, and encourages positive social skills at home, at school and in their local Community.
- · 'Latch On Programme" This is a two-year literacy programme for adults with Down Syndrome who wish to further their education at 3rd level. The programme provides opportunities for them to continue their literacy development. This is an expensive programme to run, there is no government funding for this and we fundraise to keep this running for our young adults.
- · Other Activities such as: Horse riding, Cycling, Swimming, Music Therapy, Sports activities.
- · Information evenings for parents on issues that are important for our children such as Special Needs Education, Support programmes etc., Occupational Therapy.
We would be very grateful for any assistance that you may be able to give us .
Yours Sincerely,
Andrea Tully on behalf of the Committee .
For further details: tullyandrea@hotmail.com
Cavan Down Syndrome is a registered Charity . Charity No is 6062
CRIME PREVENTION AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME volunteers wanted
CRIME PREVENTION AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME volunteers wanted
The Crime Prevention Ambassadors Programme is a peer program delivering crime prevention information, shared amongst older persons and developed at the National Community Policing Office. The purpose of the initiative to engage the most vulnerable in communities in a crime prevention programme thereby addressing the fear of crime and empowering the target group through a greater awareness of personal safety measures.
Background
The Garda Older people’s strategy 2010 aims to ensure that older people feel safe and secure in the homes and communities. It is from the Garda Older people’s strategy that the Crime Prevention Ambassadors programme emerged. An Garda Síochána recognised the need to support older people who are isolated as often they don’t receive information on crime prevention delivered in other ways. The National Community Policing Office developed this initiative in response to the problem of targeting hard to reach older people.
Who are Crime Prevention Ambassadors?
A Crime Prevention Ambassador can be any person in the community who wishes to volunteer their time to deliver crime prevention messages .Older persons are particularly welcome to apply. Volunteers can be sought from existing Older People networks or associations, such as Community Alert, Neighbourhood Watch, Ageing Well Network, etc...
Contact vanessa@muintir.ie or by text 0866000757 to apply. This is a short tterm volunteering opportunity. each volunteer once trained and Garda vetted undertakes to visit a minimum of 6 persons within their own community in a two month time frame. On completion of the visits a ceremony to recognise the volunteer effort will take place.
Vanessa Clarke
086 6000757
Community Alert Development Officer
Northern Region Sligo Leitrim Cavan Monaghan Donegal Louth
The Crime Prevention Ambassadors Programme is a peer program delivering crime prevention information, shared amongst older persons and developed at the National Community Policing Office. The purpose of the initiative to engage the most vulnerable in communities in a crime prevention programme thereby addressing the fear of crime and empowering the target group through a greater awareness of personal safety measures.
Background
The Garda Older people’s strategy 2010 aims to ensure that older people feel safe and secure in the homes and communities. It is from the Garda Older people’s strategy that the Crime Prevention Ambassadors programme emerged. An Garda Síochána recognised the need to support older people who are isolated as often they don’t receive information on crime prevention delivered in other ways. The National Community Policing Office developed this initiative in response to the problem of targeting hard to reach older people.
Who are Crime Prevention Ambassadors?
A Crime Prevention Ambassador can be any person in the community who wishes to volunteer their time to deliver crime prevention messages .Older persons are particularly welcome to apply. Volunteers can be sought from existing Older People networks or associations, such as Community Alert, Neighbourhood Watch, Ageing Well Network, etc...
Contact vanessa@muintir.ie or by text 0866000757 to apply. This is a short tterm volunteering opportunity. each volunteer once trained and Garda vetted undertakes to visit a minimum of 6 persons within their own community in a two month time frame. On completion of the visits a ceremony to recognise the volunteer effort will take place.
Vanessa Clarke
086 6000757
Community Alert Development Officer
Northern Region Sligo Leitrim Cavan Monaghan Donegal Louth
FINAL CALL FOR PPN TRAINING
Board Membership & Directors Responsibilities
Mon. Nov. 14th in Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town @7pm
This training is mainly for the benefit of those in the roles of Boards and Directorships and sets out to make clear the roles and responsibilities in this regard.
Open to all but capacity for training is 12 persons.
The PPN & Community Groups
Thurs. Nov. 17th in Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town @7pm
The final training session is to bring knowledge of the PPN to community groups who may be unaware of the benefits of engagement in the process. This training will endeavour to also bring community groups’ feedback on how to improve the PPN process to assist them in their development and support.
Open to all but capacity for training is 12 persons.
contact cavanppn@gmail.com to book a place
November Community Focus
1. County Cavan Community and Sports Facilities Survey 2016.
Make sure you facility is included.
A Community and Sports Facilities Survey is being conducted by the
Community & Enterprise Section of Cavan County Council. This is one of the
key actions within the recently launched County Cavan Local Economic and
Community Plan (LECP). The survey will update a previous audit on such
facilities carried out in 2009 for the Department of Environment, Heritage and
Local Government.
This survey is designed to collect information on all facilities which are
available for communities to use within the county. To be included in this
survey such facilities are to be run on a ‘not for profit’ basis only. Privately run
facilities such as hotels or pubs will not be included within the survey. For the
purpose of this survey, we are not including schools either.
The survey sets out to identify the number and distribution of community and
sports facilities within County Cavan. Information will be gathered on
management structure, usage and conditions of the facilities. The results of
the survey will assist Cavan County Council and other development agencies
in identifying the existing stock of community and sporting facilities within the
county, consider future investment needs by this sector and also identify
current blackspots in terms of this infrastructure.
The questionnaire is available to complete on survey monkey at:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/Community-Sports- Survey-Cavan .
A questionnaire has also been issued to all identified community and sporting organisations
within the county to complete. Questionnaires must be completed by
Wednesday 9 th November, those returned by this date will be entered into a
draw for €250. If you are involved in a group who has ownership of such a
facility and has not received a questionnaire or would like to receive further
information on the survey, please contact the Community and Enterprise
Section within Cavan County Council on 049 437 8586 or e-mail:
gboyle@cavancoco.ie.
2. Cavan Public Participation Network Training Session
Hosted by Martin Kennedy & Daniel Downey
The PPN & Community Groups
Thurs. Nov. 17th in Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town @7pm
This training session is to bring knowledge of the PPN to community groups who may be unaware of the benefits of engagement in the process. This training will endeavour to also bring community groups’ feedback on how to improve the PPN process to assist them in their development and support.
Open to all community members but capacity for training is 12 persons.
Contact 0863512308 or cavanppn@gmil.com to book a place.
3. Joint Policing Committee Public Meeting
Notice of the
County Cavan Joint Policing Committee
Annual Public Meeting
A public meeting of the County Cavan Joint Policing Committee will be held in the Trinity Suite of the Cavan Crystal Hotel on: Tuesday, 6th December 2016 from 7pm to 9pm.
The meeting will focus on the following topics:
• Victims of Crime
• Operation Thor
• Consultation workshop for the County Cavan JPC Strategic Plan
Members of the public are welcome to attend this public meeting. The function of a Joint Policing Committee is to serve as a forum for consultations, discussions and recommendations on matters affecting the policing of the local authority’s administrative area .Members of the public have the right to make their views known and ask questions. Senior members of An Garda Síochána will be present on the evening to answer questions.
To facilitate the preparation of a full response to questions raised by members of the public, all questions are to be submitted in advance of the public meeting. Questions can be taken on the day but full information may not be available. Questions can be forwarded in writing in advance to Gráinne Boyle, Cavan County Council, Community & Enterprise, Farnham Centre, Farnham St., County Cavan or by email to gboyle@cavancoco.ie. Alternatively you can call 049 4378586. All questions should be received no later than 4.30pm on Wednesday, 23rd November 2016
All questions should be accompanied by a name, address and contact numbers. These details will remain confidential.
4. Site Co-ordinator for the Cavan & Monaghan Strengthening Families Programme
It has been agreed that payment will offered for somebody to take on the role of Site Co-ordinator for the Cavan & Monaghan Strengthening Families Programme. This will be an incentive for somebody to take on the role on a part basis over a temporary period. A cover letter and résumé must be send to the Social Inclusion Unit by the 16thNovember.
Please find attached the Expression of Interest. Would you please assist in circulating this as widely as possible and let any suitable people you think may be interested in the post know about it.
I will send a separate e-mail out to the wider network of people mentioned at yesterday’s meeting.
Kind Regards,
Gráinne Boyle / Social Inclusion Office / Community & Enterprise
Cavan County Council / Farnham St. / Cavan
049 437 8586 / gboyle@cavancoco.ie
5. New €500,000 fund available to improve access to angling facilities
Inland Fisheries Ireland invites applications for funding from the public
Tuesday, 18th October 2016: A new fund to support projects that will contribute to the delivery of an accessible and sustainable, world class inland fisheries resource has been established. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has announced an overall Capital Works Fund of €500,000 available for angling groups and clubs who are looking to improve access and infrastructure for angling.
The fund is aimed specifically at capital improvement works with grants available to all groups and individuals including local development associations, tidy towns, angling clubs and others looking to improve access to angling. The types of projects eligible for funding must provide for public access and include the following:
- Clearing and fencing along rivers/ lakes to allow access for angling
- Abled and disabled friendly angling stands
- Car parks to improve access for anglers (new car parks and upgrades to existing carparks)
- Walkways to improve access for anglers
- Stands, styles, footbridges and boat slips
- Accessible angling boats / angling boats
Sean Kyne TD, Minister with responsibility for the Inland Fisheries sector said: “Accessibility for people of all abilities is a priority if our inland fisheries are to be enjoyed by everyone. I welcome the investment which will open angling activity to a wider range of participants and I would encourage the community based groups to apply for funding.”
The funding scheme forms part of Inland Fisheries Ireland’s National Strategy for Angling Development which aims to ensure that Ireland’s fish stocks and angling infrastructure are protected and enhanced for the economic value and recreational benefit which they offer to communities across Ireland. The fisheries resource is worth €836 million to the Irish economy annually and supports upwards of 11,000 jobs, often in rural and peripheral communities.
Suzanne Campion, Head of Business Development at Inland Fisheries Ireland said: “We are now inviting applications for funding for ‘shovel ready’ projects which will improve access to angling. This is a vital step in developing facilities for the 273,600 anglers currently in Ireland and the 163,000 international visitors who fished here in 2015. By improving access, we can help grow domestic participation in angling and encourage more visitors to our country every year.
The National Strategy for Angling Development aims to grow the annual economic contribution of angling by €96 million over the next five years, creating an additional 1,800 jobs and attracting 40,000 more tourists annually. We are calling on angling development groups to apply for funding through this scheme. Together, we can ensure our angling infrastructure is developed and we can help remove any barriers to participating in this valuable activity.”
Applications for funding should be submitted via the online application form available atwww.fisheriesireland.ie/funding. Applications will be evaluated in light of the objectives of Inland Fisheries Ireland’s National Strategy for Angling Development which aims to make angling accessible and attractive through information, infrastructure and support, to develop tourism through the promotion of angling and to establish recognition of angling as an important leisure and recreational pursuit.
For more information on Inland Fisheries Ireland’s current funding call and to complete the online application form, visit www.fisheriesireland.ie/funding. The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 8th of November 2016.
It is anticipated that Inland Fisheries Ireland will continue funding in this area in the New Year. Inland Fisheries Ireland invites expressions of interest from those wishing to develop more complex projects which will deliver on the National Strategy for Angling Development. Expressions of Interest should be completed through the www.fisheriesireland.ie/funding and will be open until the end of November 2016.
ENDS
About Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI)
Inland Fisheries Ireland is a statutory body operating under the aegis of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) and was established under the Fisheries Act on 1st July 2010. Its principal function is the protection and conservation of the inland fisheries resource. Inland Fisheries Ireland promotes, supports, facilitates and advises the Minister on the conservation, protection, management, development and improvement of inland fisheries, including sea angling. IFI also develops policy and national strategies relating to inland fisheries and sea angling and advises the Minister on same.
About Inland Fisheries Ireland’s National Strategy for Angling Development
The National Strategy for Angling Development is a national framework which aims to deliver a wide-ranging set of investments, innovations and promotions over the coming five years. This will ensure that Ireland’s fish stocks and angling infrastructure are protected and enhanced for both their economic value and their recreational benefit to the communities and visitors they serve across Ireland.
Department Of Housing, Planning,
Community and Local Government.
Custom House,
Dublin 1.
6. Electoral Register
We are currently arranging the annual Register awareness campaign for the 2017-2018 register of electors. As part of this campaign we are placing ads in newspapers carrying out a online campaign as well as organising a poster campaign. I have attached a pdf of the poster in English and Irish that is to be used this year.
I would appreciate if you could highlight our campaign to any of the groups that you have contact with through the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy.
Please feel free to provide my contact details if anyone is interested in either getting posters or is looking for further information on the campaign.
Regards and thanks in advance
Michael O Connor
Franchise Section
Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government An Roinn Tithíochta, Pleanála, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiύil
01-8882757
michael.o'connor@housing.gov.ie
7. Date for your Diary
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen our work against poverty
Free training for activists working against poverty by EAPN Ireland with support from Comhlámh
First Round: Understanding poverty at local and global levels and learning how to use the commitments in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Location
Time and Date
Venue
Galway
30thNovember 2016
9:45am – 3:30pm
People’s Resource Centre, St. Clare’s Walk
Merchants Road, Galway City (www.gprc.ie )
Dublin
1stDecember 2016
9:45am – 3:30pm
Carmelite Centre,56 Aungier St., Dublin 2 https://carmelitecommunitycentre.wordpress.com/
Cork
2ndDecember 2016
9:45am – 3:30pm
Lantern Community Project, George’s Quay, Cork City (http://lanternproject.ie/contact-us.html )
Second Round: Building on knowledge and developing skills and resources for effective activism. Training will take place in the same locations in February/March 2017
The training is participative and relevant for people from communities and groups experiencing poverty and social exclusion, their organisations and other activists working to end poverty
Register now
· Name: ______________________________________________________________
· Organisation: ________________________________________________________
· Contact:
- Address: _____________________________________________________
- Email: _______________________________________________________
- Telephone:___________________________________________________
· Special dietary, access or other requirements: _______________________________
Send your registrations to enquiries@eapn.ie
Further Information: European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland, 100 North King Street; Tel: 01-8745737; email: enquiries@eapn.ie web: www.eapn.ie
UN Sustainable Development Goals: These are the 17 Goals adopted on September 25th 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals apply to all countries, including Ireland. The Goals include a range of targets to be met by 2030 involving the ending of poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland is a network of groups and individuals working against poverty. It is the Irish national network of EAPN Europe, which since 1990 has been lobbying for progressive social change across Europe. EAPN Ireland is made up of over two hundred local, regional and national anti-poverty organisations and individuals and supports members to influence national and European policy through training, information, collective action and networking.
Comhlámh was established in 1975 and is the Irish Association of Development Workers and Volunteers. It protects the interests of people working in development and for human rights. Through awareness raising, research, education and training it empowers individuals to take effective action to address global inequality.
Paul Ginnell
Policy Officer
European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland
100 North King St.
Smithfield
Dublin 7
Ireland
Email: paul@eapn.ie
Tel: 0(0 353) 1 8745737 / 00(353)87 6402200
Web: www.eapn.ie
EAPN Ireland staff e-mail addresses are:
Robin Hanan, Director, robin@eapn.ie
Paul Ginnell, Policy Officer, paul@eapn.ie
Maureen Gondipon, Administration and Finance Officer, maureen.gondipon@eapn.ie
EAPN Ireland is a member of the European Anti-Poverty Network. It is a network of anti-poverty groups working to put the eradication of poverty at the top of the EU and Irish agenda through information, training, advocacy and networking.
8. Our Communities – A National Forum Wednesday, 23 rd November, 2016
9.30am – 16.30pm The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8
The Framework Policy for Local and Community Development is
now in place. To deliver on this Policy we now need to develop an
Implementation Plan. Our Communities – A National Forum will take
place on 23 rd November 2016 and will contribute to the development of
the Plan.
Invites will issue to community and voluntary organisations, LCDC
chairs and chief officers, local development and community development
bodies, government departments, local authorities and others.
The Forum will ensure that people who are directly involved in local
development and community development will have a voice in
developing the Implementation Plan.
Further information, including a detailed programme and booking
arrangements, will be circulated shortly. Please email
forum@housing.gov.ie before 4 November 2016 if you are interested in
participating in the forum.
Places will be limited and participants will be selected on the basis of
ensuring a balanced participation across all stakeholder sectors.
Community & Local Government Division
Department of the Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government
Government Offices
Ballina Co Mayo
Tel: 096 24316
9. How Fiction Works Workshop with Claire Keegan in Cavan
How Fiction Works
Workshop with Claire Keegan, November 19 & 20, Townhall, Cavan
9.30am to 5.30pm daily
Claire Keegan, internationally acclaimed author and teacher of creative writing, will run a 2 day fiction workshop in Cavan. This weekend will concentrate on works-in-progress submitted by the participants. Manuscripts (novel excerpt or short story of up to 3,000 words) are due on Tuesday 8 November, distributed to every participant, and read with care by all. Keegan will spend between 3-5 hours on each text before the workshop begins, and will then examine and discuss every text with the group during the weekend. Discussion will include the structure of a narrative, paragraph structure, time, tension, drama, melodrama, statement, description, suggestion, conflict, character, humour, point of view, place, time and setting. The aim, always, is to help each author with the next draft. The weekend will be of particular interest to those who write, teach, read or edit fiction -- but anyone with an interest in how fiction works, improving their prose and/or helping others to do so, is welcome to attend.
While most participants like to submit a manuscript, this is not a requirement. The course tuition fee is €200, this rate is subsidised by Cavan County Council. There are limited places on this workshop and preference will be to people living in County Cavan.
To book your place, please contact ckfictionclinic@yahoo.com
Make sure you facility is included.
A Community and Sports Facilities Survey is being conducted by the
Community & Enterprise Section of Cavan County Council. This is one of the
key actions within the recently launched County Cavan Local Economic and
Community Plan (LECP). The survey will update a previous audit on such
facilities carried out in 2009 for the Department of Environment, Heritage and
Local Government.
This survey is designed to collect information on all facilities which are
available for communities to use within the county. To be included in this
survey such facilities are to be run on a ‘not for profit’ basis only. Privately run
facilities such as hotels or pubs will not be included within the survey. For the
purpose of this survey, we are not including schools either.
The survey sets out to identify the number and distribution of community and
sports facilities within County Cavan. Information will be gathered on
management structure, usage and conditions of the facilities. The results of
the survey will assist Cavan County Council and other development agencies
in identifying the existing stock of community and sporting facilities within the
county, consider future investment needs by this sector and also identify
current blackspots in terms of this infrastructure.
The questionnaire is available to complete on survey monkey at:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/Community-Sports- Survey-Cavan .
A questionnaire has also been issued to all identified community and sporting organisations
within the county to complete. Questionnaires must be completed by
Wednesday 9 th November, those returned by this date will be entered into a
draw for €250. If you are involved in a group who has ownership of such a
facility and has not received a questionnaire or would like to receive further
information on the survey, please contact the Community and Enterprise
Section within Cavan County Council on 049 437 8586 or e-mail:
gboyle@cavancoco.ie.
2. Cavan Public Participation Network Training Session
Hosted by Martin Kennedy & Daniel Downey
The PPN & Community Groups
Thurs. Nov. 17th in Cana House, Farnham St. Cavan Town @7pm
This training session is to bring knowledge of the PPN to community groups who may be unaware of the benefits of engagement in the process. This training will endeavour to also bring community groups’ feedback on how to improve the PPN process to assist them in their development and support.
Open to all community members but capacity for training is 12 persons.
Contact 0863512308 or cavanppn@gmil.com to book a place.
3. Joint Policing Committee Public Meeting
Notice of the
County Cavan Joint Policing Committee
Annual Public Meeting
A public meeting of the County Cavan Joint Policing Committee will be held in the Trinity Suite of the Cavan Crystal Hotel on: Tuesday, 6th December 2016 from 7pm to 9pm.
The meeting will focus on the following topics:
• Victims of Crime
• Operation Thor
• Consultation workshop for the County Cavan JPC Strategic Plan
Members of the public are welcome to attend this public meeting. The function of a Joint Policing Committee is to serve as a forum for consultations, discussions and recommendations on matters affecting the policing of the local authority’s administrative area .Members of the public have the right to make their views known and ask questions. Senior members of An Garda Síochána will be present on the evening to answer questions.
To facilitate the preparation of a full response to questions raised by members of the public, all questions are to be submitted in advance of the public meeting. Questions can be taken on the day but full information may not be available. Questions can be forwarded in writing in advance to Gráinne Boyle, Cavan County Council, Community & Enterprise, Farnham Centre, Farnham St., County Cavan or by email to gboyle@cavancoco.ie. Alternatively you can call 049 4378586. All questions should be received no later than 4.30pm on Wednesday, 23rd November 2016
All questions should be accompanied by a name, address and contact numbers. These details will remain confidential.
4. Site Co-ordinator for the Cavan & Monaghan Strengthening Families Programme
It has been agreed that payment will offered for somebody to take on the role of Site Co-ordinator for the Cavan & Monaghan Strengthening Families Programme. This will be an incentive for somebody to take on the role on a part basis over a temporary period. A cover letter and résumé must be send to the Social Inclusion Unit by the 16thNovember.
Please find attached the Expression of Interest. Would you please assist in circulating this as widely as possible and let any suitable people you think may be interested in the post know about it.
I will send a separate e-mail out to the wider network of people mentioned at yesterday’s meeting.
Kind Regards,
Gráinne Boyle / Social Inclusion Office / Community & Enterprise
Cavan County Council / Farnham St. / Cavan
049 437 8586 / gboyle@cavancoco.ie
5. New €500,000 fund available to improve access to angling facilities
Inland Fisheries Ireland invites applications for funding from the public
Tuesday, 18th October 2016: A new fund to support projects that will contribute to the delivery of an accessible and sustainable, world class inland fisheries resource has been established. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has announced an overall Capital Works Fund of €500,000 available for angling groups and clubs who are looking to improve access and infrastructure for angling.
The fund is aimed specifically at capital improvement works with grants available to all groups and individuals including local development associations, tidy towns, angling clubs and others looking to improve access to angling. The types of projects eligible for funding must provide for public access and include the following:
- Clearing and fencing along rivers/ lakes to allow access for angling
- Abled and disabled friendly angling stands
- Car parks to improve access for anglers (new car parks and upgrades to existing carparks)
- Walkways to improve access for anglers
- Stands, styles, footbridges and boat slips
- Accessible angling boats / angling boats
Sean Kyne TD, Minister with responsibility for the Inland Fisheries sector said: “Accessibility for people of all abilities is a priority if our inland fisheries are to be enjoyed by everyone. I welcome the investment which will open angling activity to a wider range of participants and I would encourage the community based groups to apply for funding.”
The funding scheme forms part of Inland Fisheries Ireland’s National Strategy for Angling Development which aims to ensure that Ireland’s fish stocks and angling infrastructure are protected and enhanced for the economic value and recreational benefit which they offer to communities across Ireland. The fisheries resource is worth €836 million to the Irish economy annually and supports upwards of 11,000 jobs, often in rural and peripheral communities.
Suzanne Campion, Head of Business Development at Inland Fisheries Ireland said: “We are now inviting applications for funding for ‘shovel ready’ projects which will improve access to angling. This is a vital step in developing facilities for the 273,600 anglers currently in Ireland and the 163,000 international visitors who fished here in 2015. By improving access, we can help grow domestic participation in angling and encourage more visitors to our country every year.
The National Strategy for Angling Development aims to grow the annual economic contribution of angling by €96 million over the next five years, creating an additional 1,800 jobs and attracting 40,000 more tourists annually. We are calling on angling development groups to apply for funding through this scheme. Together, we can ensure our angling infrastructure is developed and we can help remove any barriers to participating in this valuable activity.”
Applications for funding should be submitted via the online application form available atwww.fisheriesireland.ie/funding. Applications will be evaluated in light of the objectives of Inland Fisheries Ireland’s National Strategy for Angling Development which aims to make angling accessible and attractive through information, infrastructure and support, to develop tourism through the promotion of angling and to establish recognition of angling as an important leisure and recreational pursuit.
For more information on Inland Fisheries Ireland’s current funding call and to complete the online application form, visit www.fisheriesireland.ie/funding. The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 8th of November 2016.
It is anticipated that Inland Fisheries Ireland will continue funding in this area in the New Year. Inland Fisheries Ireland invites expressions of interest from those wishing to develop more complex projects which will deliver on the National Strategy for Angling Development. Expressions of Interest should be completed through the www.fisheriesireland.ie/funding and will be open until the end of November 2016.
ENDS
About Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI)
Inland Fisheries Ireland is a statutory body operating under the aegis of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) and was established under the Fisheries Act on 1st July 2010. Its principal function is the protection and conservation of the inland fisheries resource. Inland Fisheries Ireland promotes, supports, facilitates and advises the Minister on the conservation, protection, management, development and improvement of inland fisheries, including sea angling. IFI also develops policy and national strategies relating to inland fisheries and sea angling and advises the Minister on same.
About Inland Fisheries Ireland’s National Strategy for Angling Development
The National Strategy for Angling Development is a national framework which aims to deliver a wide-ranging set of investments, innovations and promotions over the coming five years. This will ensure that Ireland’s fish stocks and angling infrastructure are protected and enhanced for both their economic value and their recreational benefit to the communities and visitors they serve across Ireland.
Department Of Housing, Planning,
Community and Local Government.
Custom House,
Dublin 1.
6. Electoral Register
We are currently arranging the annual Register awareness campaign for the 2017-2018 register of electors. As part of this campaign we are placing ads in newspapers carrying out a online campaign as well as organising a poster campaign. I have attached a pdf of the poster in English and Irish that is to be used this year.
I would appreciate if you could highlight our campaign to any of the groups that you have contact with through the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy.
Please feel free to provide my contact details if anyone is interested in either getting posters or is looking for further information on the campaign.
Regards and thanks in advance
Michael O Connor
Franchise Section
Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government An Roinn Tithíochta, Pleanála, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiύil
01-8882757
michael.o'connor@housing.gov.ie
7. Date for your Diary
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to strengthen our work against poverty
Free training for activists working against poverty by EAPN Ireland with support from Comhlámh
First Round: Understanding poverty at local and global levels and learning how to use the commitments in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Location
Time and Date
Venue
Galway
30thNovember 2016
9:45am – 3:30pm
People’s Resource Centre, St. Clare’s Walk
Merchants Road, Galway City (www.gprc.ie )
Dublin
1stDecember 2016
9:45am – 3:30pm
Carmelite Centre,56 Aungier St., Dublin 2 https://carmelitecommunitycentre.wordpress.com/
Cork
2ndDecember 2016
9:45am – 3:30pm
Lantern Community Project, George’s Quay, Cork City (http://lanternproject.ie/contact-us.html )
Second Round: Building on knowledge and developing skills and resources for effective activism. Training will take place in the same locations in February/March 2017
The training is participative and relevant for people from communities and groups experiencing poverty and social exclusion, their organisations and other activists working to end poverty
Register now
· Name: ______________________________________________________________
· Organisation: ________________________________________________________
· Contact:
- Address: _____________________________________________________
- Email: _______________________________________________________
- Telephone:___________________________________________________
· Special dietary, access or other requirements: _______________________________
Send your registrations to enquiries@eapn.ie
Further Information: European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland, 100 North King Street; Tel: 01-8745737; email: enquiries@eapn.ie web: www.eapn.ie
UN Sustainable Development Goals: These are the 17 Goals adopted on September 25th 2015 to replace the Millennium Development Goals. The Sustainable Development Goals apply to all countries, including Ireland. The Goals include a range of targets to be met by 2030 involving the ending of poverty, protecting the planet and ensuring prosperity for all. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland is a network of groups and individuals working against poverty. It is the Irish national network of EAPN Europe, which since 1990 has been lobbying for progressive social change across Europe. EAPN Ireland is made up of over two hundred local, regional and national anti-poverty organisations and individuals and supports members to influence national and European policy through training, information, collective action and networking.
Comhlámh was established in 1975 and is the Irish Association of Development Workers and Volunteers. It protects the interests of people working in development and for human rights. Through awareness raising, research, education and training it empowers individuals to take effective action to address global inequality.
Paul Ginnell
Policy Officer
European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland
100 North King St.
Smithfield
Dublin 7
Ireland
Email: paul@eapn.ie
Tel: 0(0 353) 1 8745737 / 00(353)87 6402200
Web: www.eapn.ie
EAPN Ireland staff e-mail addresses are:
Robin Hanan, Director, robin@eapn.ie
Paul Ginnell, Policy Officer, paul@eapn.ie
Maureen Gondipon, Administration and Finance Officer, maureen.gondipon@eapn.ie
EAPN Ireland is a member of the European Anti-Poverty Network. It is a network of anti-poverty groups working to put the eradication of poverty at the top of the EU and Irish agenda through information, training, advocacy and networking.
8. Our Communities – A National Forum Wednesday, 23 rd November, 2016
9.30am – 16.30pm The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8
The Framework Policy for Local and Community Development is
now in place. To deliver on this Policy we now need to develop an
Implementation Plan. Our Communities – A National Forum will take
place on 23 rd November 2016 and will contribute to the development of
the Plan.
Invites will issue to community and voluntary organisations, LCDC
chairs and chief officers, local development and community development
bodies, government departments, local authorities and others.
The Forum will ensure that people who are directly involved in local
development and community development will have a voice in
developing the Implementation Plan.
Further information, including a detailed programme and booking
arrangements, will be circulated shortly. Please email
forum@housing.gov.ie before 4 November 2016 if you are interested in
participating in the forum.
Places will be limited and participants will be selected on the basis of
ensuring a balanced participation across all stakeholder sectors.
Community & Local Government Division
Department of the Housing, Planning, Community & Local Government
Government Offices
Ballina Co Mayo
Tel: 096 24316
9. How Fiction Works Workshop with Claire Keegan in Cavan
How Fiction Works
Workshop with Claire Keegan, November 19 & 20, Townhall, Cavan
9.30am to 5.30pm daily
Claire Keegan, internationally acclaimed author and teacher of creative writing, will run a 2 day fiction workshop in Cavan. This weekend will concentrate on works-in-progress submitted by the participants. Manuscripts (novel excerpt or short story of up to 3,000 words) are due on Tuesday 8 November, distributed to every participant, and read with care by all. Keegan will spend between 3-5 hours on each text before the workshop begins, and will then examine and discuss every text with the group during the weekend. Discussion will include the structure of a narrative, paragraph structure, time, tension, drama, melodrama, statement, description, suggestion, conflict, character, humour, point of view, place, time and setting. The aim, always, is to help each author with the next draft. The weekend will be of particular interest to those who write, teach, read or edit fiction -- but anyone with an interest in how fiction works, improving their prose and/or helping others to do so, is welcome to attend.
While most participants like to submit a manuscript, this is not a requirement. The course tuition fee is €200, this rate is subsidised by Cavan County Council. There are limited places on this workshop and preference will be to people living in County Cavan.
To book your place, please contact ckfictionclinic@yahoo.com
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