Group | Purpose of Grant | Amount |
Saint Vincent de Paul - Birr | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Saint Vincent de Paul - Clara | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Saint Vincent de Paul – Edenderry | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Saint Vincent de Paul - Kilcormac | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Saint Vincent de Paul – Tullamore | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Saint Vincent de Paul - Ferbane | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Saint Vincent de Paul - Daingean | To provide Food and fuel to vulnerable and isolated families and individuals | 1250 |
Meals on Wheels - Portarlington | Provide and deliver 180 hot meals weekly in Portarlington and surrounding areas. Extra costs since CE scheme disbanded. Extra gloves, sanitisers, etc. needed. | 1000 |
Meals on Wheels - Tullamore | Deliver hot meals to 210-266 people weekly. 80 volunteers and support from GAA. Meals provided by HSE. | 1000 |
North Offaly Community Development Network | Funds will be used to purchase of face masks, gloves, sanitiser & Meals-on-Wheels delivery equipment. Application also mentions provision of 'Friendly Phone Call' service for isolated people, and providing out of hours’ phone help-line for people needing emergency home repairs or supplies. No numbers provided. | 3000 |
BLC Development | Meals on wheels supplies for Ballycumber, Rahan and Pullough areas. 35 people daily, rising to 70 per day | 3000 |
Kilcormac Development Association | Meals-on-Wheels supplies & PPE supplies - 60 meals a day rising to 120 per day x 6 days per week. Service expanding into South Offaly incl. Shinrone, Coolderry & Moneygall | 5000 |
Shannonbridge Community Services Group | Meals-on-Wheels supplies & purchase of small chest freezer, purchase of freezer and PPE supplies. 25 people daily | 2000 |
Citizens Information Centre | Promotion of Covid 19 helpline and promotion of CIN essential services | 1000 |
West Offaly Training | Free online training on social media platforms to ensure older people can keep in touch; online banking, taxes, internet etc. | 1000 |
West & South Offaly Network - Homefix | Purchase of 33 microwaves €2k; purchase of 100 €20 Supervalu vouchers to cover shopping costs; purchase of saw for GIY Project ; purchase of PPE & sanitiser for workers | 5500 |
Offaly Traveller Movement | Purchase of essential personal hygiene & cleaning supplies | 1000 |
Offaly GAA | Purchase and delivery of essentials such as food, fuel and medicine by volunteers in 41 clubs throughout county. €200 per club. | 8200 |
Pullough Community Shop | Purchase of food supplies to expand range of goods and services available in the community shop, such as meats, baking supplies, confectionery, ice cream, etc. Working with BLC Meals-on-Wheels. | 3000 |
Offaly Resettlement Service | Provision of educational & mental health resources at the 3 direct provision centres in Offaly (Marian Hostel Tullamore, Shannon Lodge Banagher & Dunkerrrin Arms) to combat boredom and physical and social isolation due to C19. | 1000 |
Birr 2020 | To promote social cohesion in Birr and SW Offaly through activities such as bingo singing and exercise in housing estates with assistance from fitness instructors | 1000 |
Offaly Domestic Violence Support Service | Advertising campaign & flyer with vital safety information | 1000 |
Tullamore Rotary Club | To provide 7 private nursing homes in County Offaly with 14 iPad Air tablets (2 each) to allow families to communicate with residents. Rotary club will add €1,500 matched funding to Covid grant of €2k. | 1500 |
Offaly Primary Principals Network | The grant will be used to make up an €8,000 fund which will fill the void identified by the Offaly Principals’ Network, namely approx. 50 underprivileged families and children within our school communities who do not have the necessary hardware in order to access the online learning, communication and care that is being extended via their schools. The OCC grant of €3k will be supported by €1k from Tullamore Rotary Club and this €4k fund will in turn be matched by equally by Offaly Schools to provide this vital lifeline for these school children. | 2000 |
Parents First | Purchase one laptop and software to remotely assist with family support service for 50 vulnerable families and volunteers | 1000 |
Tullamore Community & Family Resource Centre CLG | Production and distribution of 1,300 copies of activity booklet for mental & physical well-being; establishment of a food project in conjunction with OLDC, SVP & OCC. Establish food project in conjunction with SVP, OLDC and PPN. | 3500 |
Clara Community & Family Resource Centre CLG | Production of activity booklet for mental & physical well-being | 1500 |
Accessible Counselling Tullamore | Purchase of laptops to implement an online accessible and affordable counselling service to adults. Currently providing service by phone. | 1000 |
Ken Smollen Food Appeal | To purchase food for families in need and to keep a van on the road for deliveries | 1000 |
Ballycommon Training Centre | Implementation of online training course and social activities for elderly via zoom and skype | 1000 |
Moneygall Development Association | Purchase of suitable packaging and hotboxes for delivery of meals on wheels to community members | 1000 |
Offaly West Enterprise Society | To provide Meals-on-Wheels in the Banagher, Belmont, Lusmagh & Shannon Harbour areas | 1000 |
Order of Malta Birr Roscrea Unit | Purchase of PPE equipment for front line volunteers; ambulance maintenance for transporting wheelchair-bound patients to hospital appointments | 1,000 |
Offaly Centre for Independent Living CLG | Purchase of PPE equipment for use by Personal Assistant staff - face masks, gloves, gowns, bags, wipes, sanitiser. | 1,103 |
Offaly School of Special Education | Purchase of materials & resources for sensory equipment to help parents & carers of children with special needs where online interaction is not suitable. | 1,000 |
Kinnitty Parish Council | Purchase of camera with Wi-Fi capability & associated cables etc. in order to broadcast mass, funerals etc. for all the community | 500 |
Shinrone Development Limited | To provide a Meals-on-Wheels service in Shinrone area. They hope to deliver 3 times a week - 36 dinners approx. per day (to cover 2 days). Hope this will expand and they would like to think this service will continue after Covid | 1,000 |
