Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party)
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The Community Support Fund, launched on 18 November, is a Fund designed to assist thousands of community groups across the country. Support is available to, for example, Parish Halls, Community Centres, Local Development Associations, Social Clubs, Senior Citizen Groups, Men’s and Women’s Sheds. The fund will deliver small grants to help groups with running costs and rising energy bills. Groups can also use the funding to carry out small upgrade works and to purchase equipment to support their activities such as laptops and printers, lawnmowers, training equipment, etc.

The funding is administered on behalf of my Department locally by Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs) across the country, with support from their Local Authority. The Community Support Fund is now closed to applicants and details of successful projects for Cork East will be published on my Department’s website www.gov.ie/drcd, in the coming weeks.