More than €195,000 has been allocated to 12 Galway community and voluntary groups, including Croí and Our Lady’s Boys Club - to help them “overcome challenges” presented by Covid-19.
The allocations have been made under the Covid Stability Fund, which assists charity and community organisations that have encountered cash-flow issues as a result of the pandemic.
Croí, which will receive €80,000 for general wellbeing supports; Inishturk Community Club was allocated just under €25,000 for essential social services; Our Lady’s Boys Club will receive c€14,000 for the provision of youth services; and the Ballybane Community Centre will receive more than €13,000.
Fobairt Pobail Maigh Cuilinn was allocated €12,000 for wellbeing supports; Area Renewal Company Clifden received €2,000. This brings the amount allocated to groups in Galway to €197,101.
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Minister of State at the Department of Transport, and Fine Gael Galway West TD, Hildegarde Naughton [pictured above], welcomed the funds, saying it was an acknowledgement of the “important services” the organisations provide.
“These groups achieve their time and resources so generously, and their efforts have seldom been so important to those who benefit from them since the onset of the pandemic,” she said. “They will be well placed to play an important role in the social and economic recovery as we continue to emerge from the pandemic.”
