Drehid community grants announced

Kildare County Council has released the list of recipients of the Drehid Community Grant Scheme 2013.

Grants totaling €376,047 will be issued once the full Council has voted to approve them.

A total of 68 different grants, averaging €5,530 have been awarded.

They range from €228 for the Allenwood Boys National School Newsletter, to €45,000 for Johnstownbridge GAA to tarmac their car park and complete a walkway.

Coill Dubh Residents Association has been awarded €22,000 for rewiring and purchasing a defibrillator.

Coill Dubh AFC will get €20,000 to spend on ball stop nets and dugouts.

Woodlands Golf Club will get €15,000 for Verti-draining and sanding.

Allenwood Celtic AFC has been awarded €25,000 to drain and reseed their pitch, while their neighbours, Allenwood GFC, will buy a commercial mower with €20,000 which they have been awarded.

Grants have been awarded under several different headings – community groups, residents associations, youth groups, tidy towns, schools, sporting orgnisations and other – which included the Irish Peatland Conservation Council, Lullymore Heritage Park and St. Mochua Historical Society.

For the full list of the grants awarded, see below.

- Conor McHugh

Community Groups

Timahoe Active Age Group – social inclusion event - €1,000

Balyna Community Council – purchase of equipment - €1,500

Balyna Community Council – equipment for community hall - €1,500

Derrinturn Cememtary – flowers/shrubs and tarmac - €5,500

Dunfierth Community Alert Group – community text alert - €1,800

Good Morning Kildare – equipment - €4,000

Lullymore Graveyard committee – repair and re-point walls - €4,500

Timahoe Ladies Group – social inclusion project - €500

Derrinturn Parent and Toddler Group – equipment - €500

Kildare Carers Associaiton – social and information day - €1,500

Coill Dubh Residents Association – rewiring and purchase of defibrillator - €22,000

LBDC&C Community Alert Scheme – repair old bridge and plant shrubs - €1,200

Donadea and District Text Alert Scheme – road signage - €1,000

Balyna Area Active Retirement Association – social and information day - €1,500

North West Kildare County – community garden project - €500

Derrinturn ICA - workshops on craft - €800

Allenwood South Community Alert Scheme – signage - €1,000

Ardkill Graveyard committee – restore entrance to Ardkill - €4,899

Carbury Senior Citizens Group – social and information day - €1,000

Residents Associations

Johnstown Bridge – equipment - €1,000

Anne Street – improvements on the green - €2,500

Ashmount – maintenance works - €1,500

Goretti Terrace - equipment - €1,500

Churchview Coolerage - equipment - €500

Woodlands park – plants, shrubs and a mower - €4,000

An Mona Glas (Coill Dubh) – replace wooden seats and equipment - €2,900

Cluain Dara – mower - €3,000

The Meadows – landscaping - €4,000

Barrington Court – shrubs and plants - €400

Abbeycourt - shrubs and plants - €1,500

Ashgrove – estate development - €2,000

Bodkin Place - equipment - €2,500

Allen Manor – equipment - €3,500

Oaklawns – equipment - €1,549

Emerson Court – shrubs and plants - €1,000

Woodlawns – shrubs and plants - €1,000

Youth Groups

Carbury Scout Group – scouting equipment 0- €2,500

Tidy Towns

Robertstown – chain link fencing - €4,500

Roberstown – hanging baskets and flowers - €2,000

Schools

St. Farnans – goalposts and nets - €3,500

Allenwood Boys NS PTA – newsletter - €228

Allenwood Girls NS PTA – goalposts and ball stop nets - €4,000

Sporting Organisations

Balyna Bowls Club - equipment - €1,800

Allenwood Active Age Bowling Club - equipment - €4,000

St. Kevins Athletic Club – Grounds development - €49,000

Clane Staplestown Bowling Club – replacement of equipment - €2,000

Coill Dubh AFC – ball stop nets and dugouts - €20,000

Woodlands Golf Club – verti-draining and sanding - €15,000

Caragh Ladies GFC - dugouts - €5,000

Robertstown GFC – lawnmower and defibrillator - €4,200

Ballyteague GFC - sports equipment - €2,000

St. Kevins – walkway around pitch - €11,000

Allenwood Celtic – sports field draining and reseeding - €25,000

Allenwood Celtic – container to store equipment - €7,000

Edenderry Rugby Club – drainage of two pitches - €9,000

Johnstownbridge GAA – Tarmac of car park and completion of walkway - €45,000

Allen Indoors Bowls Club – equipment - €2,000

Boyneside Tug of War club – equipment - €2,400

Carbury Martial Arts – equipment - €1,500

Ticknevin and District Gun Club – Pheasant pens - €371

Allenwood GFC – commercial mower - €20,000

Allenwood GFC – set of goalposts - €4,000

Other

Irish Peatland Conservation Council – communuity links - €4,500

Lullymore Heritage and Discovery Park – 100 m boardwalk extension - €10,000

St. Mochua Historical Society – Erection of two memorials - €1,500