€750,000 funding boost for local community centres

LOCAL community centres have received a funding boost of €750k from South Dublin County Council’s Community Centre Support Management Fund.

The Bawnogue Youth and Community Centre has been awarded €47,300, the Rowlagh Community Centre has received €46,900 and the Jobstown Community and Youth Centre has received €46,600.

The Palmerstown Youth and Community Centre and the Saggart Schoolhouse Community Centre have been granted €44,900 each.

The Park Community Centre in Ballycullen has received a grant of €40,185, while €34,100 has been awarded to the Ballyowen Castle Youth and Community Centre.

A total of €30,600 has been granted to St Finian’s Community Hall in Newcastle, €26,775 will go to the Glenasmole Community Centre and the Adamstown Youth and Community Centre has received €26,100.

Smaller sums were awarded to other youth and community centres, including Brookfield (€18,600), Knockmitten (€17,600), Fettercairn (€17,900), Kingswood (€17,600) and Whitechurch (€16,600).

The council released the details of the grant awardees at Monday’s monthly council meeting and confirmed the sums that were awarded.

“In order to be deemed eligible for Management Support Funding, all boards of management were requested to send at least one representative board member to three governance-related workshops, that were delivered by Governance Ireland on behalf of the council,” said SDCC.

“In addition, each board was also asked to commit to engage with Sportskey to examine the opportunities from implementing an Online Booking System for their respective community centres.

“A total of thirty-two applications were received and assessed with due consideration given to existing core funding and income levels for each centre and how allocations of funding would assist centres to improve both service delivery to the local communities and make improvements to centre management operations.