Community culture and rights workshop series Work continues with Rachel Mullen at the Equality and Rights Alliance. We were well received and supported by Stephen and Treacy in Ballyhaunis FRC and 11 activists and artists attended. Other workshops planned are Sligo in association with Sligo Arts Office and The Model on April 22nd Cork in association with www.cesca.ie in the Traveller Visibility Group on April 24th Wexford in association with TUSLA in FDYS Enniscorthy on April 29th.
We have now completed our Blue Print 2015-2019. The Company AGM, Annual Accounts and Report were published in March. New developments include: Voluntary Code of Governance process concluded and submitted for approval
We’ve had conversations in Limerick, Galway, Dublin and Belfast. Our intention is to explore how to advance community culture and whether a rights framework can help identify practical ways locally in which to be agents of change.
New Board members are: Sheelagh Colclough from Belfast Fiona Woods from Clare Jim Aherne from Galway Ciaran Cuffe from Dublin. Mark McCollum, Mary Doheny and Ken Keogh were reappointed. Eleanor Phillips is now the Company Secretary. We are very thankful to one of our founding members, Mick Daly from Clare who has now retired. The Annual Report and Accounts can be viewed here: 2015 [+] Blue Print can be viewed here: Read [+]
Creative Parenting As a follow-up to our 3 year Happy Parent work we now seek to establish a practice site in which to understand resilience of parents with young children (0-7yrs) through art/culture practice. Eurofound as well as UK based Young and Joseph Rowntree Foundations found that parenting support is a major gap 1
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