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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 14, 2019

QUESTION NO. 30

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the types and levels of financial supports made available to community centres in 2017 and 2018 and to include in his report a breakdown per Local Area Committee.

REPLY:

The Council’s Community Development team offer a range of financial supports for community centres that can generally be categorised as Capital Funding; Community Grants & Operational/Management Supports; Event/Festival Supports and Interagency Funding & Programmes.

The Community Grants programme provides the opportunity for centres to apply for a number of grants including annual management assistance grants and other operational supports.  A number of community centres also benefit from the Council sponsored Community Employment Scheme which provides number of participants to assist with staffing requirements as well as a related grant to assist with centre running costs. Capital funding support is available through the Community Infrastructure Fund.

Boards of Management of centres are encouraged to participate in a variety of Council led community events for which funding is also available including the Bealtaine Festival, Health & Wellbeing Week, Social Inclusion Week as well as seasonal events such as Easter, Halloween and Christmas.

In addition, finanacial support related to some central government funding and interagency programme support is also channelled to some community centres by the Community Development team.

The distribution of funding for 2017-2018 across area committees was as follows:

Community Centre Funding

2017/2018

Capital Funding Event/Festival Support Interagency Funding Community Grants / Operations Support Total
2017          
Clondalkin 5,000 2,400   19,398 26,798
Lucan-Palmerstown-Fonthill 15,219 9,311 4,450 173,488 202,467
Rathfarnham-Templeogue-Firhouse-Bohernabreena   11,203 1,000 22,962 35,165
Tallaght 24,466 23,882 33,650 380,555 462,553
2017 Total 44,685 46,796 39,100 596,403 726,983
2018          
Clondalkin   1,850 940 8,000 10,790
Lucan-Palmerstown-Fonthill 46,235 9,930 13,544 338,626 408,335
Rathfarnham-Templeogue-Firhouse-Bohernabreena 39,618 6,970 2,250 48,075 96,914
Tallaght 28,350 21,375 54,186 147,068 250,978
2018 Total 114,203 40,125 70,919 541,769 767,017
Grand Total 158,888 86,921 110,019 1,138,172 1,494,000