Donegal Sports activities Partnership awarded €92,500 in new funding

Donegal’s Native Sports activities Partnership has been awarded €92,500 in new funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund.

€70,000 was allotted to assist neighborhood sports activities and bodily exercise hubs in Donegal. An extra €7,500 has been designated for youth management programmes and €15,000 for volunteer helps.

The Dormant Accounts Fund permits unclaimed funds from accounts in credit score establishments in Eire to be utilised to assist the event of people who’re economically or educationally deprived, or these affected by a incapacity.

Welcoming the brand new spherical of Dormant Account Funding, Senator Blaney stated: “I’m delighted to welcome this newest spherical of funding that proves Fianna Fáil’s dedication in Authorities to carry the advantages of sport and bodily exercise to these experiencing drawback or with disabilities. Funding for dormant accounts has an actual influence on people in our communities right here in Donegal and this new spherical of funding will assist assist these residing with drawback or with disabilities to have better alternatives to take part in actions they’ve a ardour for. I’m delighted to assist Sport Eire in persevering with to spice up engagement in bodily actions inside our native communities.”

Sport Eire has additionally introduced a second spherical of Dormant Accounts Funding later this 12 months. With this extra funding, Sport Eire goals to additional improve and develop its initiatives to achieve much more people and communities all through Eire.

Donegal Sports activities Partnership awarded €92,500 in new funding was final modified: October fifth, 2023 by Rachel McLaughlin