Waterford Leader Partnership

WLP Ltd. works closely with County Council Housing Officers and Tenant Liaison Officers in Housing Estates. Other groups targeted under this measure are people with disability, older people, gay and lesbians, ex offenders, travellers, asylum seekers, migrant workers and marginalized men.

Examples:

1. Lone Parents and Women’s Group in Portlaw:

hese women, with the help of the Project Officer, have developed a yearlong training programme based on an assessment of their needs. The Department of Social and Family Affairs fund this Training Programme. 13 women are currently attending with the same number wishing to begin the course after it conclusion in May 2007. When the women complete the programme it is intended that they will move on to more advanced courses and eventual employment.

2. Housing Estate Management:

This course runs in partnership with Waterford Co. Co. Liaison Officer in Tramore.  The residents were facilitated to draw up their needs, some of which they will implement themselves i.e. homework clubs and training courses, and others which the Co. Council can address i.e. traffic calming, anti social behaviour etc.

3. Older People, Ballymacarbry:

LP helped this community group grow their plans to develop housing for the elderly through links with the Irish Council of Social Housing and the Co. Co. Housing Officer. The group were helped and funded to register as a limited company so that they can draw down government funds to progress their plans for social housing for the elderly and older “returning emigrants” i.e. those who emigrated in the fifties, sixties and seventies, and who now wish to return back to their roots.