Bray Area Partnership 2021 Annual Report

About Bray Area Partnership

achievements

Providing Pathways

2021

a glance

Projects and Initiatives

Children and Families

Collaborative Work

Social Enterprises

Members of the Bray Area Partnership Board in 2021

Bray Area Partnership staff in 2021

of accounts

funders in 2021

FOREWORD

Welcome to our 2021 Annual Report. As we began to see life beyond COVID in 2021, we continued to engage with many individuals, groups and communities, using a mix of online and in-person supports to meet people’s needs while also protecting the health and safety of all involved. You can read about some of our projects and initiatives over the year in the following pages.

During 2021 we delivered a comprehensive programme of supports and services across the greater Bray and north Wicklow areas, including information provision, early intervention and prevention work, education and training programmes, supports to progress to employment and self-employment, health and wellbeing activities and community development and empowerment.

Our Tús initiative engaged with local groups and interests to support the development and operation of many worthwhile local community-based projects and initiatives.

Our Community Employment Scheme was an essential element that enabled us to set-up a new social enterprise, CARA, which carries out minor repairs and improvement works in the homes of older people.

It is pleasing to record that our productivity in 2021 remained high and we met, and in many instances exceeded, our targets for the year.

We also developed a number of new initiatives in 2021. Bray was selected as a site for the new Department of Health / Sláintecare Healthy Communities Programme, designed to support communities to improve health and wellbeing in their local area. BAP will play a significant role in developing and implementing local actions for this programme over the next three years.

IMPACT, an employment support service for people with disabilities, was another new project set up in 2021 by a consortium of local organisations, led by BAP. IMPACT is supported by the Department of Social Protection through the Dormant Accounts Fund.

We are committed to best practice in the delivery of quality and effective services and supports locally. We operate in line with the Charity Regulators Office Governance Code and hold the Q-Mark for quality management systems.

The effectiveness of our work in the area is made possible by the support and involvement of many. This input is fundamental to building and sustaining a more inclusive and vibrant society for all. Long may it continue and be allowed to happen.

ABOUT BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP

Bray Area Partnership is a local development company working in Greater Bray, North Wicklow and surrounding areas.

Our vision

Our vision is a strong, vibrant and inclusive society where everyone has an equal chance to achieve their potential and participate in the social, cultural, economic and political life of the community.

Our mission

Our mission is to work in partnership with all sectors of the local community to achieve a more fair and inclusive society by increasing equality of access to basic services, education, training and employment for marginalised individuals and groups.

We work collaboratively to empower local people and communities to have a say on issues that affect them, identify their own needs and make positive changes in their lives.

To achieve this, we work to:

• bring the local community together to identify the needs and issues of disadvantaged groups and communities;

• take action that will make a real difference - such as setting up initiatives, services and projects in the community;

• provide a range of direct services and supports to individuals and groups;

• bring funding and investment into the local area and fund local services;

• build the capacity of local people and communities to have a say on issues that affect them;

• promote awareness and uptake of services available in our community;

• undertake policy work to bring about change that will improve the situation for local people, groups and communities.

Our strategic approach is developed with input from all sectors of the local community - and is implemented through our support programmes in the areas of community, children and families, health and wellbeing, employment services and enterprise development.

We provide services and supports for a range of people – such as people who are unemployed, disadvantaged, low income or welfaredependent; Travellers; substance misusers; refugees and asylum seekers; ex-offenders; people with disabilities; and young people who may be at risk or are not currently in training, education or employment.

We also provide supports to local community groups who work with people in these target groups.

2021 AT A GLANCE

Supports under SICAP

• 433 people were supported overall.

• 403 people received education & training supports.

• 151 people received employment supports.

• 14 people were supported into employment.

• 22 people progressed into self-employment.

• 1,363 children received educational and developmental supports.

• 27 local community groups were supported

Local Employment Service

• 1,100 people received supports from our Local Employment Service Network.

• 580 progressions into employment, training, education and labour market programmes.

Enterprise service

• 173 people received one-to-one support to progress their business idea.

• 28 people progressed onto the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.

• 6 enterprise workshops took place.

• 7 Start Your Own Business Boot Camps took place.

• 1 Women into Business course was delivered.

• 9 Social Enterprises were supported.

Supporting community groups

• 38 local community groups were supported across all of our programmes.

• 20 of these community groups were also supported through our Tús community work placement initiative.

Labour market programmes

• 39 people took part in our Tús community work placement initiative.

• 14 people took part in our Community Employment scheme.

Integration Support Project

• 29 people received one-to-one support.

• 2 people were supported through the Progression Fund.

Supporting families

• 39 families were supported through the Preparing for Life programme.

• Over 249 parents were supported through parenting programmes Parents Plus Early Years and Children’s Programme, Parenting When Separated, Healthy Families, Circle of Security, Non-Violent Resistance.

• 16 staff from six early years settings and five primary schools were supported with language development programmes, impacting over 300 children.

• 8 early years settings and 5 primary schools were supported with language development programmes, impacting 365 children.

• 12 Early Years Services and 5 Schools were involved in the Transitions Programme, supporting over 160 children who started Primary School in the Greater Bray area.

Providing information

• Over 700 people received regular BAP e-newsletters with information on our services and local and national supports available during COVID-19.

• We provided valuable information via our Bray Area Partnership, Disability Bray and Wicklow Community Directory websites and related social media

Wellbeing supports

• 86 people received one-to-one support from our Social Prescribing service.

• 57 people attended Social Prescribing workshops and webinars.

• 360 children took part in Festival-style Wellbeing Workshops we ran in local DEIS schools.

OUR WORK IN 2021

PROVIDING PATHWAYS TO PROGRESSION

Local Employment Service Network (LESN)

programmes.

The display boards in the window of our Local Employment Service office in Main Street Bray continued to provide a valuable space for job seekers to get up-to-date information on current job vacancies, schemes and courses – as did our Facebook and LinkedIn pages, which had over 1,500 followers between them by the end of the year.

Integration Support Project

Our LESN supported over 1,100 job seekers during 2021.

Almost all of these job seekers were referred by the Department of Social Protection under the Pathways to Work Initiative, which aims to make unemployed people more aware of progression options, supports them to overcome barriers to accessing employment, education or training, and provides ongoing LESN guidance support for up to a year, with a focus on progression into employment.

In addition to one-to-one guidance support, our LESN provided a range of services to job seekers such as CV preparation or update, job search, access to education and training, interview skills training, mock interviews, information on welfare to work supports, and inter-agency referrals. During 2021 all LESN client appointments were carried out by telephone due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Over 180 people moved into full-time jobs in 2021 and there were almost 400 other progressions into part-time employment, education, training and labour market

29 people received one-to-one support from our Integration Support Project (ISP) in 2021. Most meetings with clients continued in outdoor settings, except initial meetings with new clients, clients in crisis situations and those accessing the Progression Fund.

Our Integration Support Worker was part of a team that developed a HSE-funded Pilot Stabilisation Programme that ran in Bray during 2021 and he also co-facilitated the programme.

ISP works with stabilised and recovering substance misusers to support them to prevent and manage relapse, meet their basic needs and progress in their lives in areas such as education, training and employment.

The project is supported by Bray Local Drugs & Alcohol Task Force, with funding through the Health Service Executive Addiction Services.

Two people accessed the Progression Fund in 2021, which supported them to take up education, training and personal development options.

OUR WORK IN 2021

PROVIDING PATHWAYS TO PROGRESSION

Supporting people into selfemployment

We worked collaboratively with Bray Community Enterprise (BCE) in 2021 to support 173 people to assess, set up or develop their business, with most supports taking place online due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

Supports provided included:

• Seven virtual Start your Own Business Boot Camps attended by 55 people, giving them the chance to explore their skills, develop their business idea and create a business plan.

• Six online enterprise workshops on topics such as book-keeping, market research, tax returns and keeping in touch with your customers, attended by 55 people.

• One-to-one support to 173 individuals to set up and develop their business, including support to develop a detailed Business Plan and 12-month Cash Flow Forecast, and information on financial supports such as the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance, Enterprise Support Grant and Trading Online Vouchers.

• 28 people progressed to the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.

• Ongoing support after business set-up through networking opportunities, business reviews, financial projections and funding applications.

Case study: Fiona Hannon

We supported Fiona Hannon to set up her dog walking and training business in 2021.

“BCE helped guide me in the right direction of how I should start the business - the dos and don’ts…they were always a phone call or email away. They reviewed any forms I needed to be filled out and gave me tips on how to improve my forms. Their help was amazing and made setting up my business easier than I could have imagined.”

Fiona

Case study: Mihail Nestorov

We supported Mihail Nestorov to set up his own graphic design business - Michael Design Studio - in 2021.

“I would not have been able to begin my business without the guidance and support of Bray Community Enterprise. They supported my first steps towards becoming an entrepreneur by helping me develop my idea and prepare a business plan…and helped with finance through supporting the preparation of my application for the Short-Term Enterprise Allowance, which was critical for the start of my business.” Mihail

OUR WORK IN 2021

PROVIDING PATHWAYS TO PROGRESSION

Work Skills Training programme

groups benefited from support for their valuable work in challenging times.

The Tús team also supported our BIA Food Project and local communities in areas such as estate maintenance and the positive development of their local living environments.

Community Employment scheme

Our Warmer Homes CE scheme employed 14 people in 2021 - providing participants with work experience and the chance to develop skills they could use in the workplace, as well as on-the-job training.

We provided training to individuals in 2021 to help them upskill, gain qualifications and progress to employment.

• A Career Skills programme

• Two Food Safety, Hygiene and Allergen courses

• Three Safe Pass courses

• Two Manual Handling courses

• Two Barista Essentials courses

• A Gel Nails course for Syrian Asylum Seekers

Tús Work Placement Initiative

COVID-19 restrictions continued to have a significant impact on our Tús work placement initiative in 2021, with many host organisations still not operating normally and unable to provide suitable placements. In addition, government guidelines on safe interaction with potential Tús candidates meant a sharp decline in referrals.

Despite this, Tús provided short-term work opportunities for 39 unemployed people, who benefited from gaining valuable work experience and skills. 20 local community

Participants were then encouraged to seek permanent part-time and full-time jobs elsewhere based on experience and skills they gained on the scheme.

Education Grants Scheme

Our Education Grants Scheme provided grants to a number of low income students from disadvantaged communities in 2021 to help towards the costs of college registration, course or exam fees.

Grant recipients took up courses in areas such as Applied Social Studies, Applied Psychology, Trinity Access Programme, Holistic Well Being and Legal Secretary studies.

The costs of attending further or higher education can be a real barrier for students and families on a low income and 2021 presented further challenges to our grant recipients, with many reporting difficulties in accessing broadband, college fees and childcare.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

BIA Food Initiative

During 2021, we expanded our BIA Food Initiative in response to local food poverty identified by our survey of Bray Homeless Forum member groups. The initiative was originally set up in 2020 to provide food to local people in their homes during the COVID-19 crisis.

Every week, our BIA team collected food from Food Cloud, Good Grub and local supermarkets such as Tesco and Lidl and brought it to The Well for sorting and packing. 14 local groups received weekly food bags for individuals and families they were supporting and to provide communal meals for people experiencing food insecurity or food poverty.

Tesco shoppers also donated food and toiletries to BIA to the value of over €180 at an instore collection day for Tesco’s 2021 Christmas Food Appeal.

The benefits of BIA have been many: as well as reducing food waste and addressing food poverty, the work allowed us to keep in contact with vulnerable individuals and families during COVID to keep them linked into other services they needed.

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

We provided these courses in 2021 to support people with their wellbeing and creativity during the COVID-19 pandemic:

• Yoga for Beginners

• Introduction to Cookery

• Creative Writing

• Introduction to Online Skills

• Relaxation and Yoga

• Storytelling and Local Folklore

IMPACT Initiative

We were delighted to be successful in securing funding for a new employment project for people with disabilities towards the end of 2021. Bray Area Partnership led a consortium of local organisations to apply for the funding, under the Measure to Support the Employment of People with Disabilities - a Department of Social Protection programme resourced by the Dormant Accounts Fund.

The new initiative, IMPACT, will support job seekers with disabilities to find suitable secure paid employment, advance their careers or become self-employed – and will also work with local employers to support them to create more inclusive workplaces.

Training for Community Groups

13 people from nine local community groups attended our online Introduction to Motivational Interviewing course in 2021, increasing their capacity to support clients in their services to make positive changes in their lives.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

Healthy Eating, Healthy Ageing Programme

ASPIRE Social Prescribing

Our ASPIRE Social Prescribing service supports people with their health and wellbeing by connecting them with services and activities in their local community.

The team works closely with each individual, helping them feel empowered to overcome barriers to their participation such as a lack of knowledge of available supports, or confidence to take the first step.

“I feel free, and I feel like myself again…I’m really happy with the service and the progress I’ve made from it.” ASPIRE client

We worked collaboratively with Purple House Cancer Support Centre in 2021 to deliver a fourweek practical Healthy Eating, Healthy Ageing programme.

Over the four weeks, participants learned how to cook delicious nutritious meals and shared a meal together as a group. They also received a 50-page e-booklet packed with healthy recipes.

Week 1: Eat to balance your blood sugar levels Week 2: Fix your digestion Week 3: Boost your immunity Week 4: Take care of your bones

Tiglin Greystones

In 2021, we supported a group of men from Tiglin Greystones, providing them with training in areas such as Safe Pass, Manual Handling, HACCP and Barista Essentials. Having access to this training helped the men to upskill and increase their employment opportunities.

86 people engaged with ASPIRE in 2021, receiving one-to-one supports and taking part in programmes and courses such as:

• An online Wellbeing Group Programme

• A Walking Group

• A Smartphone Photography course

• A Gentle Introduction to IT Skills course

In addition, 57 people attended workshops we ran in 2021 to mark Social Prescribing Day and Global Wellness Day:

• A Mental Health and Wellbeing talk, run in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Social Prescribing and SHINE.

• An online dance class, run in collaboration with FYI Dance, Wicklow Sports & Recreation Partnership and County Wicklow Social Prescribing.

• An online Wellbeing Workshop to mark Global Wellness Day, run in collaboration with SOS.

ASPIRE is funded by the Sláintecare Integration Fund and Healthy Ireland

COMMUNITY PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

Fáilte Isteach Project

88 learners and 30 volunteers took part in our Fáilte Isteach conversational English classes in 2021.

Fáilte Isteach is a national Third Age Ireland initiative where volunteers teach conversational English to people from other countries who live in their community. Improving their English helps learners take part more fully in society, further education and employment.

During 2021, we continued to hold our classes online and provided support to learners and tutors so they were able to take part. We also worked with Bray Refugee Solidarity and Respond to connect with refugees and asylum seekers and provide them with information on supports available to them.

Disability Bray Website

Our disabilitybray.ie website continued to provide disability-related information during 2021, across a range of subject areas such as Getting Around, Education, Work, Housing, Health & Wellbeing, Recreational & Social, Finance and Supports and Services.

News and Events pages were a great source of up-to-date local and national information.

In what were still difficult COVID times, disabilitybray.ie and its connected social media pages also provided an important space for local disability groups to connect and promote their activities and supports.

Wicklow Community Directory

We continued to administer and manage the Wicklow Community Directory website in 2021, providing valuable information for people and communities across County Wicklow on supports and activities available in their communities in what were still very challenging times.

Supporting Community Groups

We supported a wide range of community groups in 2021, helping them to build their capacity, providing support for their activities and staff to sit on their committees.

Information Provision

We provided local and national information through our website and social media pages during 2021 to inform people about the different supports and services available to them under continuing COVID-19 restrictions.

Local Resource Centres

We continued in 2021 to support the Bray Family Resource and Development Project to operate resource centres in Fassaroe and Old Court, providing funding of €126,451 from our SICAP programme for staff costs.

SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

SPECS Early Intervention Initiative

Our SPECS Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative continued to provide a range of supports and services in the local community in 2021 to improve outcomes for children and families, with some programmes delivered online due to the ongoing COVID situation.

Baby Massage: a new Baby Massage course gave parents who took part the chance to meet other parents at a time when social isolation was a big issue for them.

Preparing for Life: Family mentors worked with 39 families, starting from pregnancy - visiting families in their homes or online to provide support and information on topics such as child development and parenting. 10 families took part in Baby Yoga online.

Parenting Groups: we delivered nine parenting group programmes, and supported over 200 parents through Parents Plus Early Years (1-6 years), Parenting when Separated, Parents Plus Children’s Programme (6-11 years) and Circle of Security. We successfully secured funding from What Works for a new Parents Plus Core

programme for parents with varied learning styles and abilities. We also provided the Circle of Security teachers programme to three primary schools in Bray, supporting over thirty teachers, SNAs, HSCLOs and support workers.

Transitions: We delivered onsite training, workshops and mentoring to families, early years services and schools to support better outcomes and positive transitions for children into preschool and primary school. In addition, in 2021 SPECS started to support early years services and schools to implement a ‘traumainformed’ approach - with a positive impact on over 600 children.

Family Support: In response to a growing need from parents with anxious children, SPECS introduced a new programme in 2021 called SPACE (Supporting Parents for Anxious Childhood Emotions). The Family Support Worker provided supports to 49 families in 2021 through programmes such as SPACE, Parents Plus Children’s Programme and Non-Violent Resistance.

Language Development: SPECS, in collaboration with HSE Speech and Language, continued the roll-out of language development programmes in early years settings and primary schools, benefiting over 300 children. Parents and children also benefitted from play groups focused on language development.

SPECS is funded under the Government’s Area Based Childhood (ABC) Programme, funded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and aligned with Tusla Prevention Partnership and Family Support (PPFS).

SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Healthy Ireland Schools Programme

360 children took part in a series of festivalstyle Wellbeing Workshops we ran in local DEIS schools in 2021.

The children who took part really enjoyed the fun activities around mindfulness, gratitude and positive intentions, the smoothies and healthy treats, and putting their positive affirmations on the Gratitude Tree. They said that they particularly liked the mindfulness as it helped them to calm down.

Schools that took part were St. Kilian’s Community School, St. Fergal’s National School, Newtown Primary School, St. Peter’s Primary School, Ravenswell Primary School and St. Kieran’s Primary School.

Secondary school students also took part in their own Wellbeing Workshop, where they learned about the gut and brain mental health connection - empowering them to improve their own mental health through the foods they eat.

The initiative was supported by SICAP and Healthy Ireland.

Chatterboxes

A report published in 2021 found that a local initiative called Chatterboxes made a real difference in the lives of children and families in the Bray and North Wicklow areas.

Chatterboxes was set up in 2018 by our SPECS service and HSE Primary Care in Wicklow and works closely with key adults in children’s lives to help them support children’s speech, language and communication. Since 2018, Chatterboxes has upskilled over 60 professionals from local early years services and primary schools, impacting the lives of over 700 children.

Booklet for New Parents

SPECS produced a new booklet, ‘Looking after your Mental Health and Wellbeing during Pregnancy and Beyond’ in 2021 for pregnant and new parents (with a focus on younger mams and dads). The booklet has information on useful services and supports and topics such as finding out you are pregnant, settling in with your baby, breastfeeding, self-care and wellbeing. It was produced in collaboration with Healthy Ireland and CYPSC Wicklow.

COLLABORATIVE WORK

Wicklow Community Response Forum

We played an active role in 2021 as part of the Wicklow COVID-19 Community Response Forum, which was set up to coordinate the provision of supports in local communities across County Wicklow during the pandemic.

Bray Homeless Forum

We continued to resource and provide administrative support to the Bray Homeless Forum in 2021, including co-ordinating updating of “Bray Services for the Homeless” leaflet and “Are You Renting Privately?” poster and the production of a new “Bray Weekend Services for the Homeless” poster.

We also developed and circulated an “Address Point” poster about the An Post fixed address service, which generated a lot of queries from forum members on how their clients could access the service.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, monthly meetings continued online with a focus on how member organisations were adapting their services in ongoing COVID restrictions.

BAP Disability Network

In 2021, our Disability Network continued to highlight issues for people with disabilities – such as barriers to accessing services under COVID-19 restrictions, housing, social anxiety returning to school or services and lack of Changing Places facilities. Network members also took part in national events such as Make Way Day and Green Ribbon Day.

As well as running online network meetings where members could collaborate, share resources and support one another in difficult times, we sent members regular bulletins with useful information and highlighted their supports and activities on the Disability Bray website and social media.

Some network member organisations also took part in a consortium, led by BAP, that successfully applied for Dormant Accounts Funding to set up a new employment service for people with disabilities.

Wicklow County Council Disability & Inclusion Steering Committee

We continued to play an active role in 2021 on this committee, working with others from across the community with the aim of making services provided by the council more accessible to all. We also fed in issues raised by members of our Disability Network.

Children and Young People’s Services Committee

We supported the work of the Children and Young People’s Services Committee in 2021 through representation on the committee, the Youth Mental Health and Physical Health Subgroup and the Prevention, Partnership and Family Support Network.

Wicklow Co. Childcare Committee

We continued in 2021 to work with Wicklow County Childcare Committee, through representation on their board and interagency work with our SPECS Early Intervention Initiative.

OUR WORK IN 2021

SUPPORTING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Social Enterprises are businesses that trade in order to provide goods and services in the community, tackle problems in society and address environmental issues.

During 2021 we provided a range of supports to local social enterprises to help them to build their capacity to trade successfully.

SEED Project

Our SEED programme provided training, mentoring and networking to 12 local social enterprises in 2021 to help them trade more successfully. The programme, which was a collaboration with Southside Partnership, came to an end in April 2021.

CARA Small Jobs Service

One of the local social enterprises that benefited from supports from our SEED 2 programme

Our SEED 2 Social Enterprise Regeneration Programme started in October 2021 and provided training, mentoring and networking supports to local social enterprises to help them strengthen their operations and diversify or repurpose in the COVID-19 operating environment. The programme was a collaboration with Southside Partnership and South Dublin County Partnership.

Our new Care and Repair Action (CARA) service opened its doors in June 2021.

CARA supports older and more vulnerable people living in Bray and North Wicklow to remain in their own homes and live as independently as possible. The service supported more than 60 people in 2021 with a variety of small jobs such as cutting hedges and lawns, minor carpentry and small paint jobs.

Warmer Homes Project

Our Warmer Homes Project continued to deliver a range of insulation measures to homeowners in 2021, increasing the energy efficiency and comfort level of their homes - working in line with COVID-19 guidelines.

Kickstart Feasibility Study

With our consortium partners, Southside Partnership we carried out a feasibility and market research study under the Kickstart Programme to assess the potential for a circular economy enterprise that would employ older ex-offenders.

MEMBERS OF THE BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP BOARD

Name Sector Organisation Group

John O’Brien Social Partner

ICTU SIPTU

Judy Coolahan Social Partner ICTU Bray Council of Trades Unions

Eugene Finnegan Social Partner

Bray & District Chamber of Commerce

Ronan Mulhern 1 Community Disability Network Cairdeas Clubhse

Aoife O’Sullivan Community Disability Network RehabCare

Amy Murphy 2 Community Disability Network St. Margaret’s

Anne Marie McMorrow Community Bray Women’s Refuge

Helen Furlong 3 Community Disability Network Lakers Social & Recreational Club

Rob Walpole 4 Community Disability Network St. Margaret’s

Lourda Scott Elected Public Rep Wicklow Co. Council Greystones MD

Aoife Flynn Kennedy Elected Public Rep Wicklow Co. Council Bray MD

Grace McManus Elected Public Rep Wicklow Co. Council Bray MD

Gabriel Allen Statutory Kildare & Wicklow ETB

Assumpta O’Neill NGO Wicklow Co. Childcare Cttee

Gerry McKiernan Independent Local Interest Member

Moira Byrne Independent Local Interest Member

*Note 1: Left in September 2021

*Note 2: Left in September 2021

*Note 3: Joined in October 2021

*Note 4: Joined in October 2021

BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP STAFF IN 2021

CEO

Peter Brennan

Administration Team

Donna White Financial Officer

Olivia Berry Clerical Officer / Receptionist

Ciara Mooney

Programmes Delivery Support Worker

Enterprise Support Team

Eithne Gunning Enterprise Co-ordinator

Gillian O’Neill Enterprise Development Officer

Warmer Homes scheme

James Brady CE Supervisor

Over the year the scheme was staffed by 14 Community Employment participants

Social Inclusion Programmes Team

Jennifer D’Arcy Social Inclusion Programmes Co-ordinator

Lorna Lafferty Education Development Officer

Michelle Rogers Communications Officer

Susanne Martin Education Training Officer

Jennifer Jones Community Development & Youth Officer

Caragh Munn Social Prescribing Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Alexandra Kelly Social Prescribing Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Employment Services Support Programme Team

Mary O’Carolan Employment Services Co-ordinator

Sandra Jennings LESN Administrator

Jackie Briggs LESN Mediator

Cathy Heffernan LESN Mediator

Miriam Kane LESN Mediator

Susan McGrane LESN Clerical Officer

Linda Graham LESN Clerical Officer

Thomas Manley ISP Integration Support Worker

SPECS

Maryrose Costello

Early Intervention & Family Support Services Co-ordinator

Lulu O’Kelly Senior Development & Support Worker

Claire Murphy Development & Support Worker

Deirdre Murphy Development & Support Worker

Gillian O’Rourke Communications & Administrator Worker

Brona Murphy Transitions Development Worker

Colleen Cosgrove Family Support Worker

BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP STAFF IN 2021

Tús staff in 2021

Team Leaders: Michael Byrne Marty Clare

Tús staff were located in the following organisations in 2021:

Bray Area Partnership Holy Redeemer Parish

Bray Community Addiction Team Lakers Social & Recreational Club Ltd

Bray Emmets GAA Liberty Charity Shop

Bray Family Resource & Development Project NCBI Home Charity Shop

Bray Institute of Further Education Purple House

Bray Wanderers St. Fergal’s Parish

Cornerstone at The Well Sunbeam House Services

Enniskerry Youth Club WHAD Residents Group Festina Lente

SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTS

EXTRACT FROM FINANCIAL

INCOME:

Department of Social Protection 636,750 675,070 Health Service Executive 69,512 100,697

Receipts from Pobal 197,570 12,361

Wicklow County Council 796,536 779,189 Receipts from Tusla 430,220 412,566

Dept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth 16,808SEAI 5,518 32,606 Other Income 15,868 17,894

2,168,782 2,030,383

WCC SICAP EXPENDITURE

Administration & Monitoring 178,023 183,364

Goal 1 Costs 219,721 220,048

Goal 2 Costs 335,150 331,637

VAT 4,469 7,417 737,363 742,466

OTHER EXPENDITURE

Wages / Administration / Support Costs

1,264,579 1,270,135

LESN Mediator Fund Expenditure 13,137 4,030 Depreciation 14,330 21,747

1,292,046 1,295,912

NET SURPLUS (DEFICIT) 139,373 (7,995)

OUR FUNDERS IN 2021

Healthy IrelandDept. of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Dept. of the Environment, Climate and Communications

Department of Health

Dept. of Rural and Community Development

Sláintecare

Tusla Child and Family Agency

Dormant Accounts Fund

Dept. of Social Protection

The Area Based Childhood Programme

Wicklow County CouncilProbation Service

Health Serv ice Executive

SICAP

The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP)

is co-funded by the Government of Ireland, through the Department of Rural and Community Development and the European Social Fund under the Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020.