Community Development

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• Community Development

Prepared by Rachel Farrell
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Community Development Organisations

• FAS
• County Enterprise Boards (CEB)
• Area Partnership Companies
• Leader 2

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FAS

• 1. Training
• Provide training of skilled personnel for
  industry eg. Welders
• 2. Apprenticeships Mentoring
• For people who wish to learn a trade/craft.
• Eg. Plumbers.

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• 3. Recruitment Service
• They help match job-seekers people to suitable
  jobs.
• 4. Community Enterprise Programme
• Provide advise, training grants for business
  start-ups.

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County Enterprise Boards

• Provide information advice
• Specific to anyone setting up or expanding a
  small business in their county.
• 2. Provides grants
• For feasibility studies and capital costs
  (equipment.).

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• 3. Provides mentoring
• Advises guides people who are involved in local
  commercial enterprise.
• 4. Provides training
• Offers a range of business management courses.

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Area Partnership Companies

• 1. Promote job creation enterprise
• In designated disadvantaged towns especially
  amongst the long term unemployed.
• 2. Set up partnerships
• Between local employers, trade unions, county
  counsellors and state agencies.

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• 3. Help prepare development plans
• Which are similar to business plans.
• 4. Provide training, grants mentoring
• For recruitment and enterprise skills.

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Leader

• Is an EU funded scheme.
• Set up to help rural communities (outside Dublin)
  according to their own priorities.
• They do this by
• Training, advice, grants.

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• Distinguish between
• Community Enterprise
• State Enterprise

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Community Enterprise

• Is when groups of people help themselves and
  their communities to set up new enterprises,
  schemes or projects in an effort to improve
  employment and the local social and economic
  infrastructure of their area.
• Eg. A club or youth training programme

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State Enterprise

• Is an organisation owned, run controlled by the
  government.
• semi-state-bodies.
• The government is involved in these enterprise
  because they are essential or too costly for the
  private sector.
• Eg. An Post, ESB

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Why is Community Development needed?

• Unemployment
• Lack of resources
• Poor infrastructure
• Poor image/reputation
• Use the above as headings and write a few
  sentences about each.