Community Groups In Co. Kildare Awarded Over €340,000 Funding

Wednesday, 12 October 2022 10:49

File image: Ballyteague GAA Club via Deputy Martin Heydon's office

For upgrade of local facilities

16 Community Groups in Co. Kildare will receive funding of over €340,000 in total, to upgrade community centre facilities.

Centres in Ballyteague, Bishopsland, Carbury, Rathangan, Cooleragh, Straffan & Ardclough received maximum grants of €25,000.

Grants have also been awarded to Athy Recreational Centre, Kildare town Family Resource Centre, St Laurence's and Two Mile House GAA & community centres in Kilteel, Leixlip, Castlefen and Kilcock.

Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, announced the successful projects - nationwide - under 'Our Rural Future'.

List of the successful projects under Category 1 of the Community Centres Investment Fund
Group / Organisation	Location	Amount awarded
Ardclough GAA Club	Kildare	€25,000.00
Athy Recreational Community Hall	Kildare	€15,326.45
Ballyteague GFC	Kildare	€25,000.00
Bishopsland Awareness	Kildare	€25,000.00
Carbury Village Tidy Towns	Kildare	€25,000.00
Castlefen Residents Association Community Group	Kildare	€17,540.95
Kildare Town Community & Family Resource Centre ltd.	Kildare	€15,000.00
Kilteel Community Hall Company Limited by Guarantee	Kildare	€24,693.46
Leixlip Youth Premises Group Company Limited By Guarantee	Kildare	€22,564.30
Rathangan Community Association Company Limited By Guarantee	Kildare	€25,000.00
Respond	Kildare	€9,584.00
Scouting Ireland 16th Kildare - Kilcock	Kildare	€25,000.00
St.Laurences GAA Complex	Kildare	€13,000.00
Staplestown Cooleragh Parish	Kildare	€25,000.00
Straffan Community Association Limited	Kildare	€25,000.00
Two Mile House GAA	Kildare	€24,970.00
		€342,679.16

Local politicians have expressed their delight regarding the news, Fine Gael Kildare South TD & Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon said, “Community centres are valued shared spaces and are very much at the heart of our Kildare towns and villages. I know this funding will have a huge impact and will assist in making them even better in the provision of services to people all across Kildare.”

Deputy Heydon continued by noting the funding "will deliver high quality capital projects for community facilities that bring benefit to local communities across Kildare".

Fianna Fáil Senator O’Loughlin said, “We all know the huge contribution made to our communities by local volunteers and community centres.”

“We have a wide breath of community facilities in South Kildare and provide a place for people of all ages to meet up and socialise with friends, old and new.”