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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, September 23, 2019

QUESTION NO. 23

QUESTION: Councillor D. Richardson

"To ask the CEO to report on current financial support that this Council give to Killinarden Community Centre?" 

REPLY:

"Killinarden Community Centre receives annual support from the Council via the Council's Community Centre Management Assistance Grant. This year a grant of €6000 was paid to the centre, the maximum grant amount available. 

The Centre also benefits from the Council sponsored Community Employment Scheme which provides both the provision of a number of Community Employment Participants to assist with the staffing in the centre and also to access to a material grant related to the duties of the participants, which assist with the centre's running costs.

Killinarden Community Centre also receives annual funding towards the direct employment of staff within the Centre from the Young Peoples Facilities and Service Fund from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, with the funding administered by the Council. This year a fund of  €95,164 was approved by the DCYA for the centre.

In addition to the above annual supports, the Board of Management of the Centre, is also encouraged to take part and apply for funding assistance to help with the delivery of a variety of local Community Events utilising the Centre. This year to date the Centre has received €500 towards the cost of a Easter Community Celebration, €300 towards a Bealtaine Festival activities and €300 towards a local event for Health and Wellbeing Week.

The Centre may also and has applied for other appropriate grants within the Council's Community Grants Programme and the Community Infrastructure Fund. Funding assistance of €8250 was approved this year to assist the Board of Management with an upgrade of the Centres CCTV System "