Annual Report 2011.pdf (size 6 MB) - Offaly County Council

COMMUNITY & ENTERPRISE
Community and Enterprise support Offaly Local
Authorities goals and strategies as follows:
Providing Civic Leadership for Offaly and all its
People, whatever their circumstances or
backgrounds
Supporting Offaly County Development Board
and its sub-structures including: Offaly Sports
Partnership; Offaly Social Inclusion Measures Group
(SIM); the Traveller Interagency Group; the Tourism
Interagency Group; and the Economic Interagency
Group.
Offaly County Development Board (CDB) is nearing
the end of the implementation of the 2002-2012
Strategy.
The CDB is currently concentrating on the 4 priority
areas as identified in the CDB Action Plan 2009-2012
Education and Skills (Lifelong learning).
Creation and retention of employment and
enterprise.
Sustainable development.
Social Inclusion–Implementation of the Local
Anti-Poverty Strategy
The Community and Enterprise Department supports
each Interagency Group in the implementation of
their individual action plans.
Other projects undertaken by the Community & Enterprise
Department in 2011 include: The CDB STEM Scholarship
Programme; the Community Smoke Alarm Scheme; Bike
Week 2011; and Offaly Play Day.
The Community and Enterprise Department works closely
with Offaly Local Development Company and also provides a
link between the County Development Board/Offaly County
Council and the Offaly County Childcare Committee, the
Midland Regional Drugs Task Force, Edenderry School
Completion Programme and the Rural Transport Programme
among others.
Offaly SIM Group
The Community & Enterprise Section continues to support
the Offaly SIM Group which meets bi-monthly and brings
together all agencies and organisations in the County that
have a remit around combating poverty and exclusion.
In 2011 the SIM Group completed the Mid-Term Review of
the Local Anti-Poverty Strategy. The SIM Group continued
its networking and co-ordination role throughout 2011. One
of the interagency actions undertaken by the member
agencies of SIM was support for 4 Long Term Unemployed
Men‟s Groups at various locations in the County.
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