€200,000
for local groups
20
local community groups and schools in the Dublin 15 area have been approved
for grant aid under the RAPID Additionality Dormant Accounts Fund administered
by the Department of Community Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs. In total
local groups received €199,639 from the fund in this year’s
allocation.
Among the groups benefiting from the grants are the Mulhuddart Taekwon-Do
club who received a grant of €3,000 to purchase equipment and provide
additional coaching hours for members, while the Tolka River Environmental
Alliance (TREA), which has been heavily involved in environmental projects
on the River Tolka will receive €8,000 for the development of a
network of fishing clubs and purchase of badly needed equipment.
Among the schools to receive grants are Scoil an Ceathrar Álainn
in Ladyswell School who received a grant of €10,000 for the conversion
of an existing building into a parents and children’s activity
room.
Scoil Mhuire SNS in Blakestown was also a major beneficiary of support
receiving a grant of €8,500 for the purchase of computer equipment.
Gerry Murray, who represents the Mulhuddart area as a community representative
on the local board of RAPID welcomed the announcement of the grants
saying ‘’these funds will provide a much needed cash boost
to small groups in Mulhuddart and across the RAPID area who provide
essential services and activities to local communities’’.
Kevin Quinn, Information Officer with the Blanchardstown Centre for
the Unemployed (BCU) who is also the Corduff community representative
on the board was particularly pleased at the decision to make a grant
of €15,466 to the BCU. “This additional funding is very welcome
as it will enable us extend our mobile information service to cater
for more people in the area,” said Kevin.
Other major beneficiaries were Blanchardstown Area Partnership which
received two grants totalling €53,260 for community security projects.
Corduff Community Resource Centre received €16,741 for refurbishment
works at the centre and the FAI were awarded €9,557 for sports
projects with disadvantaged young people in the area.
RAPID is a government programme established to channel resources and
to improve services in designated areas across the state. Since December
2004, over €21m has been committed to key infrastructural and community
based services in the Blanchardstown RAPID area which covers parts of
Blakestown, Corduff, Mountview and Mulhuddart.
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