€100k in funding for Trim groups

Four community groups in the Trim Municipal District are to share €100,000 in funding through the Community Amenity Project Scheme. Summerhill Tidy Towns is to be allocated €60,000, while Ballinabrackey GAA is to receive €20,000. Sona Sásta Meals on Wheels in Summerhill and Trim Family Resource Centre are each to receive a grant of €10,000.

The grant allocations came before Trim councillors at their September meeting and will now go before full council at the October meeting for final approval.

A fund of €100,000 is in place per municipal district and the meeting heard that a total of 12 applications were received with a total of €354,000 requested and that all projects were eligible.

Four projects were chosen and funds must be drawn down by the end of next year.

The biggest allocation of €60,000 proposed is for Summerhill Tidy Towns for the restoration of a heritage feature in the village, while the €10,000 for the Summerhill Sona Sasta group is to purchase 15 tablets for its service users and to develop an internet hub at the premises. Funding of €20,000 is proposed for Ballinabrackey GAA for the replacement of floodlights at their grounds and €10,000 is proposed for Trim Family Resource Centre for upgrades to its centre to include storage, flooring and plumbing works.

Cllr Joe Fox said they were all very worthwhile projects and said excellent work was being done in Summerhill in the village and also with Ukrainian refugees.

He added that the Summerhill Tidy Towns project had been mooted for some time and would finish Summerhill as a heritage village and as the entrance to the Trim Municipal District.

Cllr Aisling Dempsey questioned why Rathmolyon playground wasn't included and was told they don't have a site for it yet. Cllr Noel French queried if there was an opportunity to include it in the Council's housing development in Rathmolyon and was told it had happened in other areas and they would raise it with the housing department.