August Community Fund Recipients

We were delighted to support several fantastic local initiatives through our August Community Fund, providing vital funding to groups that make a real difference in our community. Applications for 2025 are now closed and will reopen in 2026.

• The Mad Ravens, Sligo (Event, Education, Arts & Culture). Description: To help support a new musical in the Hawkswell, February 2026.

• Sligo Volunteer Centre (Charity). Description: To purchase a branded gazebo to attend events and for the volunteers to have a base at them.

• Friends of Assylinn Cemetery Centre, Boyle (Community, Maintenance). Description: To upkeep and maintain the cemeteries; to buy 2 benches for each cemetery.

• Keadue Tidy Towns (Promotion). Description: To develop a new website to promote Keadue’s achievements in tidy towns, etc.

• St. Ronan’s Hall, Keadue (Health & Wellbeing). Description: To install safety rails on their new entrance ramp to make it safe for entry and exit for all users.

• Cheshire Ireland, Sligo. Description: To develop a sensory garden for their members.

• Geevagh GAA Club, (Sport). Description: To set up a Mothers 4 Others team and a Winter Development Programme for teenage girls. To fulfil this, they plan to run a series of fun and educational events and sessions.

• Geevagh Community Games (Sport). Description: To purchase an industrial type Gazebo for use at community games events, etc.

• Rathedmond Residents Association, Sligo (Health & Wellbeing). Description: To purchase and install a defibrillator and storage cabinet in the estate, which can be used for residents in the event of an emergency.

• Thornhill Residents, Sligo (Community, Green Initiative). Description: Maintenance of the estate – to buy fixed window holders.

• Beltra Show (Event). Description: To develop the children’s section of the show by introducing handmade wooden games; to encourage youth participation in the show while preserving traditional skills and values.

• Sligo Drama Circle, (Arts & Culture). Description: To mark its 70th anniversary, they are compiling and publishing a commemorative historical book documenting seven decades of theatre in Sligo.

• Sligo Baroque Festival (Arts & Culture). Description: As part of their festival weekend Friday 26th to Sunday 28th September 2025, they would like to offer a morning family concert for parents and young children with the “Woodpeckers” a recorder quintet on the morning of Saturday 27th September.

• Ardu Rise Together, Sligo (Health & Wellbeing). Description: To create a foldable resource to support new & expecting mothers in County Sligo. The Mum Map will be printed and distributed in various places, including Sligo hospital, GP clinics, and family support centres.

• Lough Arrow Fish Preservation (Green Initiative). Description: To replace existing signage around Lough Arrow at public points.