A total of 18 services in Wexford have benefited from over €2.3m in funding from the Government’s Community Services Programme (CSP), Fine Gael Minister Michael D’Arcy has told WexfordToday.com
The CSP supports community-based organisations delivering vital services through a social enterprise model. Nationwide, some €46 million will be made available under the Programme in 2019.
In Wexford, the following local organisations received the funding:
Feachtas Ealaion Cuideachta Faoi Theorainn Rathaiochta €193,064.
Hook Heritage Company €193,064
Hook Rural Tourism Company €72,266
John F. Kennedy Trust €263,529
Kilcannon Industries Company, Enniscorthy €222,300
Kilmore Quay Community development Association Company €89,099
Kilmuckridge Community and Family Resource Enterprises €30,200
New Ross Needlecraft Company €60,399
Rosslare Community Development Association Company €127,165
Senior Citizens Concern Company €233,330
St Joseph’s Community Centre Company €72,266
St Aidan’s Day Care Centre, Gorey, €167,431
Templeshannon Community and Childcare Centre Company, Enniscorthy €120,532
The National 1798 Historical Centre Company, Enniscorthy €92,399
Wexford Arts Centre Limited €40,266
Wexford Community Development Association Society Limited €156,229
Wexford Heritage Trust €112,532
Windmill Therapeutic (Training) Unit Company €45,162
All finance comes from Minister Michael Ring’s Rural and Community Development Department.
Minister D’Arcy said such funding is immensely important to all beneficiaries across Wexford.

DIARMUID DEVEREUX welcomes CSP funding for local services.

“The CSP currently supports community-based organisations to provide local social, economic and environmental services through a social enterprise model, providing a contribution towards the cost of their staff.
“It typically supports organisations to meet local service gaps and provide access to services and facilities that would otherwise generally be unavailable. Eligible organisations are supported under three strands: community halls and facilities, community services for disadvantaged communities
and community organisations employing people distant from the labour market,” Minister D’Arcy said.
Funding is provided to community organisations as a fixed contribution towards the cost of employing a manager and/or an agreed number of full-time equivalent positions (FTEs).
Minister Ring recently appointed Indecon Consultants to carry out an independent review of the programme as no formal review has been carried out since it began in 2006.
“A formal review will ensure the programme is more closely aligned with current department and Government policy and better placed to meet community needs,” Gorey District Local Election Candidate, Diarmuid Devereux said.