Athlone Community Task Force

Mission Statement

To create employment and enterprise opportunities, and measures leading to these, in consultation with the Athlone community and the statutory agencies.

History

Athlone Community Taskforce, which is fully owned by the community was, established in 1992 as an initiative of the Athlone Rotary Club in order to stimulate employment generating activities in Athlone.

Through effective partnerships between community groups, statutory bodies and social partners, ACT’s main priority was to identify key measures required to combat unemployment and to undertake effective initiatives to counter disadvantage in the community.

In 1996, ACT applied for and was successful in securing funding from ADM under the Local Development Programme, for the period 1997 – 1999.  ACT working in partnership with the community and statutory agencies delivered various projects some of which include:

• After schools Project
• Food & Health Project
• Training for Employment
• Men’s Project

Since 2001 ACT has been implementing the successor to the Local Development Programme,

The local Development Social Inclusion Programme (L.D.S.I.P.)

Under the cohesion programme, Westmeath Community Development has taken over these and the administration of the L.D.S.I.P programme.

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