Local food project gets big support

IT recruitment firm Eolas Recruitment has offered its support for Bray Area Partnership’s (BAP) Food Cloud programme. Eolas’s financial contribution will consolidate the support for people who are marginalised and disadvantaged in the Wicklow area.

BAP’s Bia Food Project provides free food to individuals and families in need in the local area, as well as community groups working with people facing food poverty. The food is sourced via FoodCloud, who deliver surplus food from supermarkets weekly to the BIA centre for redistribution in the community.

The project is providing food to more than 50 local families every week and groups such as Wicklow Homeless Five Loaves, Bray Community Addiction Team and Bray Women’s Refuge, for redistribution to local people facing food poverty. The project is supported by BAP’s Social Inclusion and Community Activation (SICAP) programme and benefits from the work of participants on the Tús Community Work Placement Scheme.

This is one of a number of support initiatives that Eolas intends to launch this year in an effort to support the local community. In the short term, Eolas has offered additional support to those who need support in advance of interviews and CV preparation, and coaching in advance of job applications into all sectors, not just IT.

Commenting on the service, Jim Ryan, MD Eolas Recruitment, said: “Attendees will be provided with CV and interview training for anyone who needs to apply for a job. Furthermore we will give anyone involved the opportunity to interview for vacancies that we have across Ireland in the IT, accountancy and finance space”,

Jennifer D’Arcy, Social Inclusion Programmes Manager at Bray Area Partnership, said the team were “delighted with the support from a local and national business, with skills available which could transfer to those who were at time of most need”.

Eolas Recruitment are an IT specialist recruitment company which has recently entered the accountancy and fnance sector and is owned by investors Erisbeg Ltd, employing 20 people at the IDA Park on the Southern Cross Road in Bray.