€172,000 for 235 projects in Westmeath under LEP 2025
The successful projects in Westmeath under the Local Enhancement Programme (LEP) 2025 have been announced this morning.
A total of €172,055.70 has been awarded to 235 projects, Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, Dara Calleary, TD, and Minister of State with responsibility for Community Development and Charities, Jerry Buttimer, TD, confirmed.
The LEP 2025 was launched in November 2024 and the €7 million available included €1 million in current funding so support local groups with ongoing running costs.
The funding also provides capital supports for many small community groups and organisations, particularly those who serve disadvantaged areas in rural and urban areas.
The Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht’s Local Enhancement Programme 2025 is administered by Local Community Development Committees, with support from local authorities.
Minister Buttimer said: “The Local Enhancement Programme is about giving a helping hand to our local groups and clubs, who are the building blocks of Irish community life. Since my appointment I have had the pleasure of visiting many of the community groups that will benefit from grants under the LEP – although small in nature the value of the projects funded to the groups are considerable. “With over 5000 projects approved the number of communities and people that these grants will benefit is vast.”
He added: “The funding we are announcing today will ensure that important work can continue to be delivered by communities on the ground and I’m delighted that every single county will benefit. This government is committed to supporting local communities to shape their future. I would like to thank Westmeath County Council and Local Community Development Committee for their assistance in administering this fund.”
Minister Calleary said: “The LEP 2025 continues to build on the vital supports provided to community groups through previous iterations of the fund helping them improve their facilities. It provides small-scale funding for projects which range from purchasing IT equipment to minor renovations to buildings and this year also provided an opportunity to groups to apply for help with their operational costs. The impact of the Local Enhancement Programme is considerable, and it allows community groups to carry out the invaluable work they do on behalf of others in local areas throughout the country.”
LCDC Group / Organisation Name of Town/ Village area Amount awarded by LCDC
3rd Delvin Scouts Delvin €780
9th Milltownpass Scout Group Milltownpass €780
Abbey Road Active Retirement Athlone €475
Active Friends 08 Rochfortbridge €465
An Grianan Golden Years Group Mount Temple €780
As an bPortach Wood Carving Group Mullingar €288.75
Ashcroft Park Village Close Residents Association Raharney €780
Athlone AC Juvenile Athlone €780
Athlone Community Development Association Athlone €780
Athlone Community Radio Athlone €780
Athlone Family Resource Centre Athlone €465
Athlone Foróige Athlone €780
Athlone GAA club Athlone €780
Athlone Photography Club Athlone €780
Athlone River Festival Athlone €780
Athlone River Safety Awareness Group Athlone €780
Athlone Samaritans Athlone €780
Athlone Sub Aqua Club Athlone €780
Athlone Tidy Towns CLG Athlone €780
ATK Community Centre Ltd Athlone €780
Ave Maria Park Residents Association Moate €780
Baile na Rinne Youth Group Castlepollard €475
Ballinafid Multyfarnham Community Development Mullingar €780
Ballinahowen Community Development Ballynahown €780
Ballykeeran Tidy Towns Committee Ballykeeran €780
Ballymore Badminton Club Ballymore €465
Ballymore Bowls Club Ballymore €475
Ballymore Community Centre Ballymore €780
Ballymore GAA Club Ballymore €475
Ballymore Men’s Shed Ballymore €780
Ballynacargy Comhaltas Ballynacargy €780
Ballynacargy GAA Club Ballynacargy €475
Ballynacargy Tidy Towns Ballynacargy €780
Battery Heights Residents Association Athlone €465
Baylin Development and Residents Group Athlone €780
Beechpark West Residents Association Athlone €780
Ben’s Lifeline Mullingar €475
Bloomfield Drive Residents Association Athlone €780
Brawny Community Group Athlone €465
Brosna Art Group Mullingar €780
Brosna Garden Co-operative Mullingar €780
Brosna Residents Group Kilbeggan €780
Brosna View Residents Association Kilbeggan €780
Brotenstown/Ballinea ICA Group Mullingar €780
Buccaneers Rugby Football Club Athlone €780
Bun Daire Residents Association Kinnegad €312.95
C.A.R.A. Castletown Geoghegan €650
Cara-Phort Family Resource Centre CLG Ballynacargy €465
Carrick Mór Residents Group Ballynacargy €540
Castledaly Ladies and Gentlemen Active Age Group Moate €780
Castlegrove Residents Group Castlepollard €275
Castlepark Residents Association Rochfortbridge €630
Castlepollard Men’s Shed Castlepollard €465
Castlepollard Tennis Club Castlepollard €780
Castlepollard Town Team Castlepollard €5,000
Castletown Geoghegan Camogie Club Castletown Geoghegan €465
Castletown Geoghegan Hurling Club Castletown Geoghegan €780
Clann Lir CCÉ Mullingar €780
Clara Road Residents Association Moate €780
Clonkill GAA Clonkill €780
Cluain Mullan Residents Association Castlepollard €780
Coillin Búi Residents Association Moate €540
Collinstown Fore Men’s Shed Collinstown €780
Collinstown Pitch and Putt Club Collinstown €780
Community Growers The Happy Patch Athlone €780
Connaught Traders and Environs Athlone €780
Coole Older People’s Group Coole €465
Crookedwood Camogie Club Crookedwood €780
Crookedwood GAA Club Crookedwood €700
Castletown Geoghegan Pickleball & Badminton Castletown Geoghegan €465
D Cups Kilbeggan €600
Dalton Park Residents Association Mullingar €780
Dalton Park Womens Group Mullingar €780
Delvin Amenity Development Group Delvin €780
Delvin Camogie Club Delvin €465
Delvin Friendship Club Delvin €465
Delvin GAA Delvin €1,245
Delvin Men’s Shed Delvin €465
Delvin Sports & Lesiure Centre Delvin €465
Delvin Tidy Towns Devlin €700
Derrygreenagh Park Residents Assocation Rochfortbridge €780
Down Syndrome Association Longford Branch Mullingar €780
Drumraney Camogie Club Drumraney €475
Drumraney Community Centre Drumraney €780
Drumraney Community Defibrillator Group Drumraney €475
Esker Park Residents Association Athlone €780
Fore Heritage & Community Group Fore €780
Gainstown Milltownpass Community Games Gainstown €475
Gainstown Senior Citizens Mullingar €324
Garrycastle GAA Garrycastle €465
Glasson Tubberclaire Community Group Glasson €465
Gleann Alainn Residents Collinstown €465
Gleann Petit Residents Association Mullingar €780
Glenidan Residents Association Collinstown €780
Goldsmiths LGFA Athlone €465
Grange Community Group Mullingar €780
Greenfield Heights Residents Committee Killucan €780
Helium Arts Mullingar €780
Hillside Drive Residents Association Mullingar €465
Horseleap Streamstown Community Association Streamstown €780
Horseleap Streamstown ICA Streamstown €780
Horseleap Tidy Village Horseleap €465
Independent People with Disabililties Athlone €460
Inny FC Finea €465
Irish Midlands Youth Orchestra Mullingar €465
Irish Sudden Infant Death Association t/a FirstLight Mullingar €465
Kilbeggan Community Group CLG Kilbeggan €465
Kilbeggan Men’s Shed Kilbeggan €465
Kilbeggan Tidy Towns Kilbeggan €780
Kilbeggan Town Team Kilbeggan €5,000
Killare Graveyard Committee Moate €780
Killucan Area Men’s Shed Killucan €780
Killucan Area Services Killucan €465
Killucan Area Services Cairde Group Killucan €465
Killucan Care CLG Killucan €465
Killucan Community Centre CLG Killucan €465
Killucan GAA Killucan €780
Kilnahinch Development Group Moate €780
Kilpatrick Community Games Kilpatrick €780
Kinnegad Community Council Kinnegad €780
Kinnegad Town Team Kinnegad €5,000
Kinnegad Women’s Shed Kinnegad €780
Lake County Beekeepers Association Mullingar €780
Lakepoint Residents Association Mullingar €780
Language, Traditions and Culture of Lithuania Mullingar €465
Lough Ennell Catchment Association Mullingar €780
Lough Ree Yacht Club Athlone €780
Lough Sewdy Development Company Ballymore €780
Loughegar Community Group Mullingar €465
Loughegar Community Playgroup CLG Mullingar €465
Loughnavalley GFC Loughnavalley €780
Market Hill Residence Association Ballymore €780
Maryland GAA Club Drumraney €475
Maryland Tang GAA Tang €475
Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu International Athlone €475
Midland Amenity Park CLG t/a Dún na Sí Amenity and Heritage
Park Moate €780
Midlands LGBT+ Project/ YWI Laois Athlone €780
Midlands Photography Club Athlone €780
Midlands Polish Community CLG Athlone €780
Milltown GAA/Community Centre Milltown €780
Milltownpass Community Action Group Milltownpass €780
Milltownpass GAA Club Milltownpass €780
Milltownpass LGFA Ladies Milltownpass €475
Milltownpass Tidy Towns Milltownpass €780
Moate Active Retirement Moate €465
Moate Community Youth & Sports Association Moate €780
Moate Men’s Shed Moate €780
Moate Performing & Visual Arts Club Moate €465
Moate Railway Group Moate €780
Moate St. Patrick’s Day Parade Moate €780
Moate Tennis Club Moate €475
Moate Tidy Towns Moate €780
Moate Town Team Moate €5,000
Mount Carmel Residents Assocation Moate €600
Mount Temple Community Hall Development Committee Mount Temple €780
Mount Temple Holy Trinity Graveyard Group Mount Temple €780
Mullingar Arch Club Mullingar €780
Mullingar Bridge and Amenity Centre Mullingar €700
Mullingar Camera Club Mullingar €780
Mullingar Charity Variety Group Mullingar €465
Mullingar Choral Society Mullingar €385
Mullingar Handball Club Mullingar €780
Mullingar Harriers and Athletic Club Mullingar €780
Mullingar ICTU Centre CLG Mullingar €780
Mullingar Irish Wheelchair Association Mullingar €780
Mullingar Lithuanian Community Mullingar €780
Mullingar Men’s Shed Mullingar €700
Mullingar Sub Aqua Club Mullingar €780
Mullingar Tennis & Badminton Club Mullingar €465
Mullingar Tidy Towns Mullingar €780
Mullingar Town Band Mullingar €780
Mullingar Women’s Group Mullingar €400
Multyfarnham Community Centre Multyfarnham €780
Multyfarnham Men’s Shed Multyfarnham €780
North Friends of Dementia Group Castlepollard €780
North Ukrainian Network Mullingar €780
Old Clonmore, Clarkemount & Brosna Residents Assocation Mullingar €250
P.L.A.C.E (Positive Learning Arts Culture & Exercise) Collinstown €700
Raharney Camogie Club Raharney €780
Raharney Hurling Club Raharney €780
Rathconrath Community Development Association Rathconrath €780
Rathowen Active Retirement Rathowen €475
Ringtown Hurling Club Castlepollard €780
Rochfortbridge Community Centre CLG Rochfortbridge €780
Rochfortbridge Men’s Shed Rochfortbridge €465
Rochfortbridge Tidy Towns Ass Rochfortbridge €465
Rosemount Community Centre Committee Moate €780
Rosemount Tidy Village Rosemount €780
Sarsfield Square Residents Association Athlone €595
South Ukrainian Representatives Group Athlone €780
Southern Gaels Hurling and Camogie Club Athlone €780
St. Joseph’s GAA Club Streamstown €475
St. Joseph’s Ladies Football Club Streamstown €475
St. Malachy’s GFC Ballinagore €780
St. Mary’s Community Employment Scheme CLG Athlone €780
St. Mary’s GAA Rochfortbridge Rochfortbridge €475
St. Marys Ladies Football Rochfortbridge €475
St. Munna’s Camogie Club Mullingar €465
St. Owen’s Restoration Group Ballymore €465
St. Paul’s Delvin LGFA Delvin €465
Streamstown Horseleap Community Games Streamstown €780
Streamstown Playground Committee Streamstown €780
Streamstown Tidy Village Streamstown €780
Streetscape Focus Group CTG Castletowngeoeghan €780
T.E.A.M. - Temporary Emergency Accommodation Midlands Mullingar €780
Taghmon Turin Community Games Crookedwood €780
Tang Muintir Community Council Ltd Tang €780
The Downs GAA Club The Downs, Mullingar €475
The Downs LGFA Mullingar €465
The Old Athlone Society Athlone €465
The Sycamores Residence Association Rochfortbridge €780
The Thursday Club Ballymore €780
Tower View Residents Association Ballynacargy €540
Tubberclare Local Action Group Tubberclare €390
Tuesday Club Moate Moate €780
Turin Hurling Club Turin €465
Turin Taughmon Social Services Turin €285
Tyrrellspass LGFA Tyrrellspass €475
Tyrrellspass Tidy Towns Tyrrellspass €780
Ukrainian Community Mullingar Mullingar €780
Village Hall CTG Castletown Geoghegan €780
Walshestown Community Centre Walshestown €465
Archaeological & Historical Society Mullingar €780
Centre for Nature and Culture Castlepollard €465
Communitry Games Mullingar €780
County Childcare Committee CLG Mullingar €780
Show Society Ltd Mullingar €780
Women’s Shed Mullingar €780
Whitehall Community Group Castlepollard €780
Whitehall Ladies Group Castlepollard €780
Willow Park Residents Association Athlone €700
Windtown Park Residents Association Rathowen €780
Women’s Community Projects - Training & Education Dept Mullingar €780
Woodside Park Residents Group Castletown Geoeghan €320