6.3 Responding to Community Issues

Sligo Local Community Development Committee Annual Report

o The PPN engaged in initial consultations with Sligo County Council and consultants on Sligo

Wayfinding Strategy in October 2020 o The PPN hosted an information session with Sligo County Council on the proposed N17 Knock-

Collooney project in December 2020 o The PPN continue to promote to all members any public consultation and engagement processes that we are made aware of. o The PPN hosted one of the pilot Climate Conversation exercises with DECC in April 2021

6.3 Responding to Community Issues

Community Needs Analysis

In September 2020, Sligo PPN undertook a needs analysis to find out how to best support member groups over the following 6 months in terms of training and information.

Key Issues to Emerge

Issues such as funding, governance, becoming more environmentally friendly, social media and group promotion were highlighted as important to members.

The PPN shared these findings with key partner organisations in the county including Sligo Leader Partnership CLG and Sligo Volunteer Centre to begin exploring how these issues could be addressed collectively. The PPN has co-ordinated a suite of direct responses to respond to identified needs across 2020 – 2021. Programmes developed include;

 Sligo PPN commissioned a Sligo based edition of the national Funding Digest on behalf of the local community sector and produced a funding best practice guide to support groups in their applications.

 From a governance perspective Sligo PPN has supported Sligo Volunteer Centre in a webinar series based on the 6 principles of the Governance Code.

 The PPN engaged consultants Woodrow Solutions to develop and deliver a Tidy Towns Support

Programme. The aim of this initiative is to support Tidy Towns groups in the 2021 National Tidy

Towns Competition. The programme consists a 6 online sessions which explore core aspects of the programme. There was also a dedicated session for participants to inform the content. Aspects of the programme were aligned to the SDGs and also