Latest News from the Ring of Gullion

Small Capital Grants Programme

Posted on: 27th July 2020

The Department for Communities (DfC) has launched this years’ Small Capital Grants Programme. The Programme, which has a total fund of £800,000, is aimed at assisting voluntary and community organisations purchase items of equipment to enhance and sustain the activities and services they provide to the community.

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Free Trees for Schools & Groups

Posted on: 27th July 2020

Community groups and schools wanting to plant trees as the country recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic are being told to get their applications into the Woodland Trust soon.

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Forest for Our Future – Forest Expansion Scheme reopens

Posted on: 27th July 2020

This scheme aims to encourage and help landowners plant their own woodland during the 2020/21 planting season and successful applicants will receive up to 100% of eligible establishment costs and annual premia for a 10-year period.

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PHA announces COVID-19 Community Funding

Posted on: 20th July 2020

The Public Health Agency (PHA) has launched a new programme of investment that will provide support to communities in response to the impact the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Plan Your Next GIANT Adventure

Posted on: 20th July 2020

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council Chairperson, Councillor Laura Devlin is encouraging people across the district to support staycation holidays this summer and into the autumn.

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Attention Primary Schools of the Oriel Kingdom! Win a Family Annual Pass to Dublin Zoo and other fantastic prizes!

Posted on: 3rd July 2020

We are calling on all P5-P7 class pupils to take up the quest to create the official logo for ORCCA so that we can inspire young and old to protect and explore the waters that flow within our communities.

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extraORDINARYwomen: Supporting Communities (1965 – today)

Posted on: 3rd July 2020

Linen Hall Library has launched a ground-breaking heritage project which will digitally preserve and make accessible online a selection of the Library’s world-renowned archives focusing on the lived experience of women in Northern Ireland since 1965.

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Clár sléibhe ag cuartú a mhic / New documentary series searching for Irish speakers’

Posted on: 2nd June 2020

Belfast based production company, Crawford McCann are searching for Irish speakers for BBC NI and RTÉ documentary series called Ar an Sliabh.

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National Heritage Week 2020

Posted on: 2nd June 2020

National Heritage Week is coordinated by the Heritage Council as part of European Heritage Days, and is supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Fáilte Ireland

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Gardening for Wildlife

Posted on: 2nd June 2020

With the lovely weather, lots of us are out working in the garden. There are a number of resources out there in regards encouraging wildlife in the garden.

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