Waste Prevention Grant – Glanmire Community College: Glanmire Community College received a waste prevention grant to part fund the installation of contactless water bottler refill stations at the school. In total five stations were installed which replaced existing water fountains. The new stations are safe to use during the Covid pandemic and have already resulted in a dramatic reduction in single use plastic bottles. Each station has a counter which counts the number of times that a bottle has been refilled. During the first month of operation, each station had refilled an average of 1200 bottles.
Community Content Cork City Council Community Culture and Placemaking Directorate has put forward six communities, groups and organisations for the 2020 Co-operation Ireland IPB Pride of Place awards. Pride of Place is an all-island competition that recognises improvements made by local communities to create civic pride in their area. The competition focus is about people coming together to shape, change and enjoy all that is good about their area. This year, the award winners will be announced on 21st November. This year’s Pride of Place categories are Urban Neighbourhood/Village under 3000 population and over 3000 population, Creative Place Initiative, Community Wellbeing Initiative, Community Climate Action Initiative, and Community Youth Led Initiative.
The nominees are:
• Blarney Village for Urban Neighbourhood/Village under 3,000 population; • Ballincollig for Urban Neighbourhood/Village over 3,000 population; • The Hut (Youth & Community Resource Centre) in Gurranabraher for Creative Place Initiative; • Lantern Project for Community Wellbeing Initiative; • SHEP Earth Aware and Elders for Earth for Community Climate Action Initiative, and • The South Side Youth Forum in the category of Community Youth Led Initiative.
Community Forums Community Forum Teams are being set up in Togher and Bishopstown Areas again.
Cork Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force A request came through the CLDATF from Recovery Academy Cork to illuminate the City Hall purple on the 30 th September 2020 for International Recovery Day. This was an attempt to attract attention to de-stigmatize people who are in recovery from a variety of addictions and celebrate their achievements as they struggle daily to change to a lifestyle of participation in society and adding their values and skills to it as part of their recovery. The Lord Mayor Cllr. Joe Kavanagh offered his support for this initiative and to add his voice to help to de-stigmatize recorded a message of hope, relayed through social media, to coincide with International Recovery Day. Both Cork City Council initiatives generated a high volume of very positive social media activity. The CLDATF expressed their gratitude as did Recovery Academy Cork and Ireland to Cork City Council for the level of support they received from all involved.
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