Amenity and arts grants awarded
Community groups, sports clubs and arts organisations are sharing in a €50,000 amenity and arts grant fund allocated by the members of Wexford District Council while an additional €16,000 is being divided among cultural projects.
The following amenity grants have been approved by the Council: 25th Wexford Piercestown Scout Group €750; 35th Wexford Kilmore, €300; Access 2000 CLG, €400; All Blacks AFC 700; Ard Aoibhinn Services, €100; Baldwinstown Development Fund €600; Ballymore/Mayglass Development Committee €550; Ballymore/Mayglass Parish Council €450; Bridgetown Community Development €300; Bridgetown Handball Club €500; Bridgetown Men's Shed €1300; Burrow Lifeboat Memorial Committee €200; Castlebridge Horticultural and Agricultural Society €100; Cleariestown Hall Development Group €450; Commodore John Barry Branch ONE €200; Corish Park Residents Association €350; County Wexford Community Games €100; Crossabeg Community Hall €300; DMP Athletics Club €1250; Dynamic Kickboxing Academy €200; FAB Community and Family Resource Centre €300; Glynn Barntown AFC €250; IRFU Charitable Trust €650; Irish Wheelchair Association 200; It's Good to Talk Counselling Support €950; Kilcowan Cemetery Committee €200; Killinick and District Garden Club €200; Kilmore Active Retirement Association €400; Kilmore Community Hall €100; Kilmore Scope €900; Kilmore Village Group €400; Kilmore Youth Club €200; Knockingall Centre €650; Liam Mellows Ladies Social Club €300; London Wexford Association €300; Love Redmond Park €50; Mannix Place Community Centre €100; Menapians Athletic Club €200; Murrintown Environmental Group €1300; Murrintown Parish Council €950; Murrintown Village Development Committee €850; Na Fianna Boxing Club, €650; Our Lady's island Parish Committee €350; Our Lady's Island/Tacumshane Senior Citizens €800; Private Andy Wickham Memorial Committee €600; Rathangan Parish Council €500; Rathangan Senior Citizens Housing Association €200; Respond Housing Association €250; Rosslare Community Development Association €200; Rosslare Harbour Maritime Heritage Centre €200; Rosslare Harbour/Kilrane Environmental Group €550; Rosslare Tidy Towns €350; Rosslare Youth Club 600; South East Boxing Club €600; Southend Family Resource Centre €450; St. John's Volunteers GFC €850; St. Joseph's Sunshine Club €100; St. Mary's GAA Club Maudlintown €1350; The Collective Sensory Group €3,000; The Cool Monday Night Club €400; Tomhaggard Community Development Group €350; Tomhaggard Pastoral council €200; Tomhaggard Women's Shed €350; Wexford Academy of Martial Arts €400; Wexford Friends of the Tall Ships €400; South Wexford branch of Multiple Sclerosis Society €700; Wexford town St. Patrick's Day Parade committee €300; Wexford Bullring Market Traders €100; Wexford CBS Boxing Club €450; Wexford Chess €100; Wexford Memorial Trust €500; Wexford Mental Health Association €800; Wexford Working Men's Club €500; Lady's Island GAA Club €300; Ballycogley Village Committee €200 and Killinick Village €200.
The following Arts Grants were allocated: 13th Wexford Scouts €450; Ballycogley Players €500; Cois Barry Community House €250; Community Theatre Project €100; Craobh Loch Garman (CCE) €200; Eugene McEvoy €200; HFC Concert Band €150; Kilmore Quay Craft Group €150; Kilrane Rosslare Harbour Tops Committee €1050; Leo Carthy Traditional Weekend Committee €1100; Na Macallaí €300; Oyster Lane Theatre Group €300; Oyster Lane Theatre Group €100; Rathangan Variety Group €200; Rockwater park Arts Co-op €200; Rosslare Musical Society €650; St. Patrick's Fife and Drum Band €300; Wexford Camera Club €100; Wexford Drama Festival €100; Wexford Drama Group €100; Wexford Festival Singers €600; Wexford Folk Orchestra €400; Wexford Light Opera Society €600; Wexworlds €200; Write by the Sea Kilmore €250; Yola Hedge School and Family Centre 250' Bridgetown Links Together €500; WACT €250; South Wexford Writers Group €200; The Hope Foundation €500 and Bringing Barntown Together €2,550.
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