Joy at funding for Louth youth clubs

FUNDING of €237,000 has been allocated to 57 youth clubs in Louth.

The funding was announced by the Minister for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone TD recently.

The Scheme was developed to support the work of volunteers, to enhance the experience of members, and to provide vital equipment to local youth clubs and groups.

Numerous local clubs are benefitting from the funding, which will help greatly with their annual expenses.

Local clubs that will benefit from the funding are: AIM Youth Service €4,983.90, Ardee Concert Band €5,000.00, Ardee Guides €4,495.12, Ardee Foroige €4,757.06, Autism Support Louth €4,000.00, Boyne Valley Guides €5,000.00, Boomerettes €4,800.00, Boomguys €4,631.05, Buion Setanta Scouts 5th Louth €5,000.00, Buttercups €3,800.00, Castlebellingham Youth Club €3,800, Clogherhead Coastal Scouts 7th Louth €3,350.68, Clogerhead Guides €3,800, Cryptic Guys €4,817, Dillonstown Foroige €4,800, Drogheda Boys Choir €4,612.23, Drogheda Brass Band €4,200, Drogheda Senior Guides €4,800, Holy Family Youth Club €5,000, Lourdes Youth Choir €3,694.51, MAD Youth Theatre €4,000.00, Megahearts €998.00, Mell Foroige Club €4,317, Millmount Guides €4,800, Monasterboice Guides €2,315.62, Monasterboice Senior Guides, €4,000, Moneymore Foroige Juniors, €4,800, No Name Club Drogheda €4,800, Reaghstown Youth Club €4,800, Saint Kevin’s Youth Club €3,761.41, Saint Oliver’s 3, 4, 6th Louth Scouts €4,800, Saint Patrick’s 1, 2, 5th, Louth Scouts €5,000, Scoratocht Lannleire €4,000, Solid Rock Youth Club €5,000, Termonfeckin Macra €4,217, Togher Macra €1,895.76, Traveller Youth Club €4,800, Tullyallen Guides €2,330.

The news has been welcomed by Drogheda TD Fergus O’Dowd who said: ‘Earlier in the year I called on all local youth clubs to contact the LMETB after details of the funding stream were announced. The Scheme was administered through the Louth Meath Education and Training Board and my sincere thanks goes to all of the team who helped our local youth clubs make their applications this year.

‘ The grants will assist clubs in the purchase of camping, gaming, sports and audio visual equipment. Other clubs, for example, have used the grant to purchase musical equipment which would otherwise unavailable to them.

He said the diverse range of the grants awarded is reflective of the clubs which applied and the young people who partake in their activities.

‘I want to give a big thank you to everyone involved with these very important projects locally. The volunteering you do is of enormous benefit to the entire community,’ he aded.