Supporting unity in our community
Once again, the team at Skibbereen taking on Food Waste is delighted to share with you the second issue of seasonal food recipes from the students of Gaelscoil Dr. Uí Shúilleabháin. To browse these wonderful recipes for each month of the year, please click on the link below:
http://online.mobissue.com/jopt/ulmk/
The entry in the national Tidy Towns competition, 2023, included a submission regarding the SECAD Sustainable Communities training programme 2021-22, that involved participants from a number of Skibbereen community organisations and interested individuals. The selected project was to develop the green walkways made possible by the flood relief scheme in the last ten years. Set out in three stages, the boardwalk proposal supports the provision of alternative walkways through the town, enabling “a more vibrant commercial hub for pedestrian activities” (p. 13).
When we asked the author for approval to include details from the report in the Skibbereen submssion for the Tidy Towns competition, he responded positively: “All the information generated for the project belongs to the community groups“.
Since the Town Centre First regeneration plan for Skibbereen is now underway it is timely to share the design statement as agreed by participants in the SECAD Skibbereen WhatsApp group who were involved in contributing to the document, available to view and download for offline reading below.
In addition, we wish to share a video recorded featuring selected participants of the group about the importance of the Ilen River to the town of Skibbereen and its selection as our project for the SECAD Sustainable Communities training programme, 2021-22. Unfortunately, our WordPress plan does not include video content so we will aim to share the video directly in our social channels.
We recently asked for your thoughts on how best to spend a small grant from Cork County Council’s Community Recognition Fund for the playground in Cork Road. We are very grateful to over 140 of you who took the time to complete the survey and/or contact us through other channels with your thoughts and suggestions. Further, the data you provided regarding general facilities on the site, along with your interest in the future development of the playground, will be of tremendous value in the months and years ahead. For now, however, we are pleased to share the findings from sections 1 to 3 of the interim report. Section 4, consisting of a discussion and next steps is currently with Cork County Council for review, and will be shared once details of the equipment to be procured from the grant fund is agreed, and the report finalised.
Continue reading “Skibbereen Children’s Playground”
Skibbereen Tidy Towns was recently awarded a small grant from Cork County Council’s Community Recognition Fund for the playground in Cork Road and would love your thoughts on how best to spend it. Interested? Please consider completing our short survey using this Microsoft Forms link: https://forms.office.com/e/mWMJNqQN0U
Alternatively, please feel free to email Sandra at SkibbereenTidyTowns@iCloud.com with any suggestions.
The closing date for all feedback is Monday 31 July so don’t delay, have your say.
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Skibbereen Tidy Towns