Waterford LEADER Partnership CLG Local Employment Service (LES) is changing its name to the Waterford South Tipperary Local Area Employment Service (WSTLAES) from September 1st 2022. The LES will no longer be in operation, as and from August 31st 2022.
The LES closure is due to the Department of Social Protection’s plan to set up a new service following on from a tendering process. This will affect all the LES’s throughout the country.Read More
Walking Trails Funding Announcement
This morning, Minister Humphreys announced once off grant funding for Community Trail Management Organisations who are listed on the Sport Ireland Trails Register. The grant funding may be used towards to the cost of purchasing equipment, small scale maintenance and/or marketing/promotion of the registered trail.
Waterford Leader Partnership CLG under the Rural Development Programme has been an avid supporter of the Waterford Festival of Food since it began in 2008.
11/06/2022. Pictured at the Woodhouse Estate Walled Garden Dinner at the 13th annual West Waterford Festival of Food, one of Ireland’s biggest food festivals, which ran from 10 – 12 June with almost 100 events happening across the weekend. Photograph: Patrick Browne Photography. By courtesy of Waterford Festival of Foods.
Great article in the Munster Express on the Clonea Power’s community hub which was funded under the Rural Development LEADER Programme 2014 – 2022
https://www.munster-express.ie/opinion/foley-on-file/clonea-powers-community-hub/
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