by badminme | May 18, 2021 | Members News, PPN News
Ennis 2040 Economic & Spatial Strategy Presentation to SPCs
Click Ennis-2040-Presentation-to-SPC to view the presentation given to the Clare County Council Strategic Policy Committees on the Ennis 2040 Plan
‘The purpose of Ennis 2040 is to guide the long-term development of Ennis and highlight opportunities that will deliver competitive advantages over the short, medium and long term. In order to achieve this, the Strategy has a Town Centre focus while also looking ahead to prioritise areas that support compact growth, realise economic opportunities and respond to the call for climate adaptation.’ – Ennis 2040 presentation to SPCs’
by badminme | May 18, 2021 | Members News, PPN News
Click Plenary Meeting notes 11th May 2021 to view the notes and suggested actions as a result of our plenary meeting on 11th May 2021. It as a very productive evening with great ideas and discussions that could have gone on all night!
by badminme | May 17, 2021 | Members News, PPN News, SPC for Rural Development
Clare County Council Community Development Officers
This team works with community groups of all sizes, local and regional organisations and other engaged parties, building the capacity of voluntary community leaders and organisations to identify and implement projects, which will provide their areas with an identifiable comparative advantage.
- Ennis Municipal District – Niamh Wiley nwiley@clarecoco.ie 087 0611943
- Killaloe Municipal District – Seamus Murrihy smurrihy@clarecoco.ie 087 3834382
- Shannon Municipal District – Jennifer O’Brien jaobrien@clarecoco.ie 087 4131596
- West Clare Municipal District – Margaret Cotter mcotter@clarecoco.ie 087 1089847
https://www.clarecoco.ie/your-council/contact-the-council/directory/rural-and-community-dev-dept/rural-dev-officers/
Clare Local Development Company Community Development Workers
Clare Local Development Company has over 21 years experience of providing a wide range of local development services including training, work placements, grants and advice. Currently the company employs over 200 people on a wide range of programs and schemes LEADER, SICAP (Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme) Local Training Initiatives, Rural Social Scheme, Community Employment Scheme and Rural Recreation Project and Tús. https://cldc.ie/contact/
- Monica McKenna – mmckenna@cldc.ie 087 4194542
- Michelle Nolan – mnolan@cldc.ie 087 6542234
Volunteer Centre Clare
The Clare Volunteer Centre is part of the national network of volunteer centres, supported by Volunteer Centres Ireland. They are based in Ennis and open to meet volunteers Monday to Friday, between 9am and 5pm. Browse the website to look at the latest volunteering opportunities or contact them directly to talk about the volunteering roles that may suit you! If you are an organisation that involves volunteers or is planning to involve volunteers contact Sharon or Dolores to find out more about their training, Garda Vetting Service, support on policy development, volunteer referral service and much more! https://www.volunteerclare.ie/
Tel: +353 65 68 455 13 / +353 65 68 455 17
Manager – Sharon Meaney
Email: sharon@volunteerclare.ie
Placement Officer – Dolores O Halloran
Email: dolores@volunteerclare.ie
by badminme | May 11, 2021 | Members News
Engaging with your PPN Representatives:
Representatives of Clare PPN’s member groups sit on the following committees in County Clare:
- Local Community Development Committee
- Economic Development Strategic Policy Committee
- Physical Development Strategic Policy Committee
- Social Development Strategic Policy Committee
- Rural Development Strategic Policy Committee
- Joint Policing Committee
- Local Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee
If you would like to be involved with inputting to or discussing the issues raised at these committees you can join one of our linkage groups. Joining a linkage group means that you will be notified by Clare PPN when there is a meeting of the Committee you are interested in coming up and invited to a pre-meeting with your PPN representative on that committee. These meetings are currently taking place on line and our representatives would appreciate input from our member groups.
How to join a linkage group: Select which college of Clare PPN your group belongs to (Social Inclusion/ Community and Voluntary/ Environment) and using the appropriate link below register for any committee that interests you. If you have any difficulty with this please email admin@clareppn.ie and we can help you sign up.
Social Inclusion Linkage Groups
Community and Voluntary Linkage Groups
Environmental Linkage Groups
by badminme | May 6, 2021 | Current, Local Community Development Committee, Members News, PPN News
Welcome your new Clare PPN Representatives:
Congratulations to Cornelia Wahli, Christy Sinclair and Collette Bradley we look forward to working with you all.
We are delighted to let you know that we received nominations for each of three representative roles we advertised to our member groups on April 20th 2021. We are most grateful to all groups who nominated and in particular to the three candidates who have come forward to represent their communities through Clare PPN.
The vacant Environmental Seat on Clare PPN’s Secretariat will be taken up by Cornelia Wahli who was nominated by Clare Environmental Network and who also represents Clare PPN on Clare County Council’s Local Community Development Committee. As part of the Secretariat Cornelia will join 9 other community representatives to help to run Clare PPN on behalf of its member groups between plenary meetings.
The second environment seat- on Clare County Council’s Rural Development Forum goes to Christy Sinclair – nominated by Clare Environmental Network. Christy was one of the founder members of Clare PPN, his interests are environmental sustainability and social justice and he will make a valuable contribution to the ongoing work of the forum.
The third and final seat in this set of elections was for a Social Inclusion Representative to sit on Clare’s Local Community Development Committee and this seat goes to Collette Bradley of Shannon Family Resource Centre. Collette’s experience in community development and support for marginalised communities will be of great value to the LCDC.
We are so grateful to all who came forward, the ratification of these seats will take place at our plenary meeting which is taking place on May 11th online (contact admin@clareppn.ie if you would like to attend this meeting). Following the plenary we will write to each committee chair notifying them of our nominations and this will complete the formal nomination process.
You can read more about each new representative here:
Cornelia Wahli:
Cornelia’s participation in and membership of several environmental groups, including CEN – Clare Environmental Network, emerges from a deep-felt belief that the current man-made climate crisis, which has lead to global warming and loss of biodiversity, can be healed, but only with individual, societal, corporate and political input and action.
Cornelia lives an organic lifestyle without chemicals in her kitchen, utility room, bathroom and garden using vinegar, bread soda and lemon juice instead, sparingly. She believes that a lifestyle change with similar intensity like that imposed by covid-19 is necessary to assure and ensure a continued ‘food and clean water supply’ for now and the future. Cornelia’s vision is of an ‘Organic County Clare’ that is organic in public spaces, in private gardens as well as in agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, silviculture and arboriculture. Such an ‘organic approach’ can facilitate the protection of the environment welcoming diversity of biological life-forms to flourish and allowing our soil, water and air to return to their natural clean state. Cornelia would like to be a voice for the natural world, a healthy and nurturing environment that is capable of feeding and supporting humans as well as fauna and flora with sustainable development a core value. Cornelia also represents Clare PPN’s member groups as the Environmental Representative for Clare PPN on Clare’s Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) since autumn 2020.
Christy Sinclair:
Christy Sinclair was one of the founding members of Clare PPN. He previously served as a Secretariat member and as part of the finance subcommittee. He specialises in the installation and certification of photo-valtic systems and is a keen environmentalist, rock climber and greyhound adopter. He has been involved with a number of community groups in Clare including the Burren Eco Tourism Network and Clare Bus where he served as a board member. His interests are in securing a ‘living wage’ for those working in Clare and ensuring that communities are takings steps towards sustainable energy use. He will bring all these interests to represent Clare PPN’s member groups on the Rural Development Forum.
Collette Bradley:
For the past 6 years Colette Bradley has been the coordinator of Shannon Family Resource Centre and is committed to the delivery and further development of services and activities for the local community. She also recognises the need for more community services for Shannon and the surrounding areas. Prior to Colette’s Coordination position in Shannon she worked in the Community & Voluntary Sector for 12 years based in Ennis.
Colette was a voluntary member of a number of committees over the years including the group which oversaw the establishment of a community crèche and a resource centre, now North West Clare Family Resource Centre, in Ennistymon.
Colette is committed to working towards a more equal society and recognises social inclusion, equal opportunities and environmental protection as key building blocks to the achievement of a fairer and more progressive society.
She feels privileged to call beautiful North Clare her home living in Lisdoonvarna and prior to that in Kilfenora since moving to Co. Clare from Co. Wicklow in 1998.
You can read more here about the Rural Development Strategy here:
https://www.clarecoco.ie/services/community/rural-development/strategy/
And more here about the Local Community Development Committee:
https://www.clarecoco.ie/services/community/lcdc/
