The Sligo County Community Forum Executive AGM is scheduled to take place on July 1st 2010 at 7pm in the Sligo Northside Community Centre.  Community Forum members are welcome to attend.

As part of the Forums ‘Diversity Training Programme’ funded by the Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee, a course entitled ‘Intercultural Training’ is being offered.  This course will allow participants to appreciate their own and others cultures and explore how ideas of ‘culture’ are created and exchanged.  The course will cover six different units: 

Understanding prejudice [...]

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Sligo County Community Forum is inviting people involved in the community and voluntary sector to join local networks.  The purpose of the networks will be to bring groups together working at a local level to share information and find out where they could collaborate on projects.  A crucial role for each of the networks will [...]

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On September 24th the Sligo County Forum is hosting an event to launch this new website.  Forum chairperson Margaret Conlon said ” We just wanted to have a launch to get word about the website ‘out there’.  It is very important to the forum that the community and voluntary sector in County Sligo know what [...]

Sligo County Community Forum are delighted to announce that they will be undertaking a ‘diversity training’ project which has been awarded by the Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership and the Special EU Programmes Body.  The chairperson of the forum today said “we are very pleased to have this opportunity to deliver diversity training within the [...]

Over May, June and July Sligo Forum hosted a number of training events for the community sector around Sligo.  On average 10 people attended each of the four events in leadership training, community profiling, presentation skills and ‘doing funding applications’.  Overall the feedback gathered from the evaluation sheets was very positive, with the vast majority [...]

In June 2009, Nick Nixon from the Carers Association gave a presentation to forum members outlining the supports and challenges facing carers in County Sligo.  The carers association run a monthly support group and offer training to Carers in County Sligo.  As well as this, the carers association advocate for carers and try to influence [...]