Sharon Meaney, Manager of Clare Volunteer Centre; Gabriella Civico, CEV; Cllr Paul Murphy, Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council; Brendan Boyce, Integration Support Co-ordinator, Clare County Council, at the award ceremony in Barcelona. CO CLARE has been named the European Volunteering Capital 2027.
THE Clare Community Response Team, (CCRT) established in early March, was set up to support organisations who are providing a community-based response to Covid-19.
*John Kerin (Chairperson), Bernadette Haugh (Clare Local Community Development Committee Chief Officer), Sharon Meaney (Clare Volunteer Centre) and Leonard Cleary (Director of Rural Development). A new freephone number has been added to Clare’s Covid-19 Community Response team.
On Friday, twelve men will dress up in clothing that for them is not the norm and incorporate new characters as part of a beauty contest with a difference, all in aid of Rape Crisis Midwest.
Two Clare women have been recognised nationally for outstanding volunteer work which has impacted the entire country. Mary Fitzgerald received the Christine Buckley Volunteer of the Year at the Volunteer Ireland Awards over the weekend. In her teens, she was moved by the pictures on television of the street children in India and she travelled …
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