Who’s News Training

This training is for members of the media and community groups who engage with the media for more information and registration form please click this link Whos-News-Brochure
The Project has been  supported by EU’s PEACE III Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace & Reconciliation Partnership [...]

Building Equal Communities, Community Exchange and Training Day

Glasshouse Hotel Sligo, September 16th 2010
Sligo County Community Forum and Claire Galligan are hosting a ‘community exchange and training day’  on September 16th in Sligo.   The purpose of the day is to hear examples of good practice in building equal and vibrant communities and to avail of the training sessions on offer.  The training sessions [...]

Sligo delegation attend international Diversity Conference

As part of Sligo Forum’s Diversity Project, we sponsored the attendance of a group of community leaders from Sligo to attend the 10th international Diversity Conference in Belfast in July 2010.  It was a marvellous opportuntity with leading thinkers and practitioners working on different aspects of Diversity attending from all over the world. Read more…. [...]

Recruiting for Intercultural Training FETAC level 5

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 [...]

November E bulletin now available

Click the link to see our latest e bulletin:  November EBulletin 2009

Community Network Meetings around the County

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 [...]

More requests for the monthly E-Bulletin!

Every month Sligo Forum has more requests to access their monthly E-Bulletin.  If you are a community group based in Sligo, this E Bulletin could be of use to you!  Let us know if you want to be included on the list!
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Sligo Forum hosts event to launch website

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 [...]

Peace III project awarded to Forum

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 [...]

Summer training events – a success!

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 [...]