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| Rapid Newsletter June 2003 2002 ISSUE 6 Over €900,000 of projects approved Since the first AIT meeting in October 2002 over €900,000 of stamped projects have been approved by relevant Departments and agencies. The successful projects are related to Childcare, Education, and some Capital grants. Kilkenny Strategic Planner Completion. The Kilkenny Strategic plan is near completion. The Plan will be forwarded to ADM prior to the 11 th of July, the plan following extensive consultation with Community reps, incorporates a community and agency participation strategy, existing projects and projects for development. The Strategic plan will be a flexible one allowing new projects to be developed during it's lifetime. The Plan will be posted on the Kilkenny County Website. Www.kilkennycoco.ie DR. Maureen Gaffney and RAPID National co-ordinator visit Kilkenny AIT
RAPID South Eastern Forum Up and Running
In Brief Continued……………………… Next COG meeting to take place in the Kilkenny County Hall in June 2003 Music Lessons for young people have commenced, for further details contact, Ray Scanlon at Youthlynx @ 90240 Ossory Park to attend its first COG meeting on June 24th in County Hall. New CSO Statistics to be out in August Anybody with any community news please contact Ronan in the County
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On Thursday the
8th of May Dr. Mauren Gaffney and Gerry Murphy ( National Co-ordinator
) visited the Kilkenny AIT in the Fr. McGrath Center. An informal
meeting was held with AIT and community reps with reference to the
programme.
In June 2003 the
RAPID South Eastern forum met for the first time in Waterford The
idea for the setting up of a South Eastern Community forum evolved
from the First South Eastern RAPID Conference held in Kilkenny in
Feb 2003. The forum will play a key role in cementing community
links in existing RAPID urban areas through the sharing of experiences
, idea generation, and the encouragement of best practice. The forum
and community participants will be supported by each RAPID co-ordinator.
Representatives from Kilkenny included Sandra Hoban, Mags Leaghy
( representing Norah Webster and Ray Scanlon )
As part of DR.
Maureen Gaffney's visit and Gerry Murphy's visit to Kilkenny, visits
were made to the Newpark Close Family Resource center where a meeting
was held with representatives from the center and the Fr. McGrath
center in the Butts
Kilkenny Area Implementation
Team's Community reps, Ray Scanlon, Sandra Hoban and Nora
Webster all of whom have Played a key role in the compilation
of the Kilkenny RAPID Strategic plan, the plan will be posted on
the Kilkenny County Council website, 
Community representatives
have just completed a four session community training programme.
Excellent feedback was received from participants and a special
thanks to Deidre Hennessy, Course tutor. 