Laois County Council

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  • Grow it Forward

    Grow it Forward

    GIY, in partnership with Healthy Ireland and public libraries will distribute 50,000 free food growing kits as part of a new ‘Grow it Forward’ initiative.

    Recipients are asked to use the kits to share the experience with ten people, enabling half a million people across Ireland to enjoy the wide range of benefits that come from growing food at home.

    As part of the Government’s Keep Well programme, this campaign is designed to help the nation eat well by inspiring and supporting people to grow some of their own food at home while connecting with friends and family to join them.

    Let’s get growing, email your contact details (including postal address) to mountmellicklibrary@laoiscoco.ie or call 057-8644572 for your free packs!

     

  • Forever Young

    Forever Young

    Forever Young is a multi-phase art project with older people inspiring artists. Celebrate special memories in your life through sharing them.  Free specially designed creative writing packs available from Dunamaise Arts Centre throughout April.

    Ph: 057 8663355 or email info@dunamaise.ie

    https://www.dunamaise.ie/

  • Check in Card

    Check in Card

    Registered members of the Public Participation Network will be delivering ‘Check-In’ cards to older and vulnerable persons in our communities, living alone or more isolated during this pandemic.  This neighbourly non-contact check in invites people to stay connected and reach out if they need support.

  • If the Bedroom Walls Had Ears

    “Right now the world is very chaotic, yet now I think we’re more of a community than we ever have been”

    The words of 15 year old Lucy Grace in a piece she wrote especially for the last Episode of If the Bedroom walls had ears’

    Lucy is one of five 3rd year students who came together exactly one year after lockdown began to discuss what pieces of art helped them through the last 12 months. Recorded in Portlaoise College, the five students come together to chat and even sing to Ann Marie about musicals, poems, and films that helped through a time when they were unable to see their friends. With no junior Cert exams to worry about, it allowed them to explore other Poets not on the curriculum and form even better relationships with their teachers!

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1723229/episodes/8332927

  • Grow it Forward

    Grow it Forward

    GIY, in partnership with Healthy Ireland and public libraries will distribute 50,000 free food growing kits as part of a new ‘Grow it Forward’ initiative.

    Recipients are asked to use the kits to share the experience with ten people, enabling half a million people across Ireland to enjoy the wide range of benefits that come from growing food at home.

    As part of the Government’s Keep Well programme, this campaign is designed to help the nation eat well by inspiring and supporting people to grow some of their own food at home while connecting with friends and family to join them.

    Let’s get growing, email your contact details (including postal address) to mountmellicklibrary@laoiscoco.ie or call 057-8644572 for your free packs!

     

  • Forever Young

    Forever Young

    Forever Young is a multi-phase art project with older people inspiring artists. Celebrate special memories in your life through sharing them.  Free specially designed creative writing packs available from Dunamaise Arts Centre throughout April.

    Ph: 057 8663355 or email info@dunamaise.ie

    https://www.dunamaise.ie/

  • Check in Card

    Check in Card

    Registered members of the Public Participation Network will be delivering ‘Check-In’ cards to older and vulnerable persons in our communities, living alone or more isolated during this pandemic.  This neighbourly non-contact check in invites people to stay connected and reach out if they need support.

     

  • Help Is At Hand

    Help Is At Hand

    Looking after your physical and mental health is more important than ever now. Help is at Hand is equipping people with information on where to go if they need emotional and mental health support during COVID-19.

    Help is at Hand click here

  • If the Bedroom Wall had Ears

    Episode 4 of If the Bedroom walls had ears Aoife Byrne

     

    “I always stand up for myself because that’s what you have to do. It is hard, but I just do it to say that I’m able to do stuff myself” 20 year old Aoife Byrne from County Laois has never let her Down Syndrome get in the way of her life. As a volunteer for the Irish Red Cross, and now studying with National Learning Network, she tells Ann -Marie of her many hopes, among them, her dream of living independently in the country. Listen here to Ep 4 of ‘If the Bedroom walls had ears’

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/1723229/8259480-episode-4-aoife.mp3?blob_id=37420709&download=true

  • Grow it Forward

    Grow it Forward

    GIY, in partnership with Healthy Ireland and public libraries will distribute 50,000 free food growing kits as part of a new ‘Grow it Forward’ initiative.

    Recipients are asked to use the kits to share the experience with ten people, enabling half a million people across Ireland to enjoy the wide range of benefits that come from growing food at home.

    As part of the Government’s Keep Well programme, this campaign is designed to help the nation eat well by inspiring and supporting people to grow some of their own food at home while connecting with friends and family to join them.

    Let’s get growing, email your contact details (including postal address) to mountmellicklibrary@laoiscoco.ie or call 057-8644572 for your free packs!

     

  • Forever Young

    Forever Young

    Forever Young is a multi-phase art project with older people inspiring artists. Celebrate special memories in your life through sharing them.  Free specially designed creative writing packs available from Dunamaise Arts Centre throughout April.

    Ph: 057 8663355 or email info@dunamaise.ie

    https://www.dunamaise.ie/

  • Check in Card

    Check in Card

    Registered members of the Public Participation Network will be delivering ‘Check-In’ cards to older and vulnerable persons in our communities, living alone or more isolated during this pandemic.  This neighbourly non-contact check in invites people to stay connected and reach out if they need support.