The entry for this year’s competition was submitted to the Tidy Towns Unit of the Department of Rural and Community Development at the end of April, ahead of the mid-May deadline. A competition adjudicator uses the entry that includes a customised map, to guide their visit to the town that can take place any timeContinue reading “Midsummer newsletter – July 2024”
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Reflections of a Tidy Towns volunteer
What is it they say about all good things coming to an end? Or ‘as one door closes another door opens’. I’m not so sure about these sayings since the Tidy Towns movement is now into its seventh decade of the national competition and Skibbereen has entered since 1961 – if that’s not continuity IContinue reading “Reflections of a Tidy Towns volunteer”
A journey with Abbeystrewry NS, AY 2023-24
Choosing a title for this blog post was difficult since there has been so much wonderful work undertaken by staff and students at Abbeystrewy National School in the academic year 2023-24 to support the ethos of the Tidy Towns movement across multiple competition categories. These include Community, Green Spaces and Landscaping, Nature and Biodiversity inContinue reading “A journey with Abbeystrewry NS, AY 2023-24”
Skibbereen Boardwalk Proposal – Design Statement
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. SetContinue reading “Skibbereen Boardwalk Proposal – Design Statement”
Skibbereen Tidy Towns 