Lunch Time Lecture:  26th Feb 1pm, Equal Service Provision for people from diverse ethnic and cultural minorities:
David Walsh from Open Minds is delivering a lunch time lecture entitled: ‘Equal service provision for people from diverse ethnic and cultural minorities’.  David is formerly a member of An Garda Siochana and has wide ranging expertise and competencies [...]

3 workshops have been organised for people in Sligo to feed into the Integration plan for the County.  All workshops will be facilitated by Claire Galligan and Jipe Kelly.  Sligo County Community Forum is supporting this initiative.

1.  Workshop for Migrant and minority communties living in Sligo, Monday 18th Feb. Glasshouse Hotel, 6.30-9.30

The workshop will be [...]

At the November meeting of the Sligo County Community Forum, Community group representatives expressed their fears over the upcoming budget and the poor treatment of community groups … All over Sligo, people are giving voluntary hours to ensure that people get meals on wheels, kids get youth services and older people have somewhere to call [...]

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Two of Sligo County Community Forum’s membership groups recently took up the offer of governance training.  The training was delivered for the forum by Claire Galligan.  The two groups – Sligo Travellers Support Group and West Sligo Family Resource Centre – both felt the training was of great benefit to them and covered all aspects [...]

Two new reports were released today by the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government.  They set out proposed changes in local government and how local services will be ‘aligned’ at a local level.
Sligo County Community Forum is currently reviewing these documents and will give their response in due course.  However, they welcome the committment [...]

Sligo County Community Forum has been very fortunate to have had very supportive and dedicated executive members over the past number of years.  The executive committee have worked hard to support community and voluntary activity in the County and speak up on behalf of the sector.

Volunteers on the executive board have used their personal time [...]

All members who joined by August 2012, should now have received nomination papers for elections to the Executive of the Sligo County Community Forum.  Nomination papers should be returned by October 26th.  Don’t forget that if you are being nominated as a geographic rep, you need two other groups from your area to sign the [...]

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Sligo County Community Forum is busy working the Autumn Schedule for 2012.  Here is a taster of what is coming up …

Social Media Training for Community Groups in 2 locations in County Sligo.  This training will allow you to set up your own facebook and webpage and maintain it. Very useful for community [...]