Westmeath Community Development

From today Monday 23 January, Chartered Accountants Ireland is pleased to announce that the Chartered Accountants Voluntary Advice service (CAVA) will extend its free business advisory service nationwide. This service extends to all sectors of the economy, including non-profit organisations.

Background to CAVA:

• CAVA is a free, confidential, independent and now a national organisation that provides advice to business people who cannot afford to pay for an accountant, and draws upon a panel of almost 150 experienced chartered accountants. Originally set up as the brain-child of Chartered Accountants Leinster Society in 2007, the service is now extending nationwide. This move is in response to the growing demand for advice from business people in financial distress. Typically this free service is used by sole traders, who are trying to survive against the odds, and who would not otherwise be able to afford expert financial advice. The service has since been rolled out in the South West and Mid West of the country and will be rolled across the rest of the country in the coming weeks and months.  
   

Ireland's first ever online careers fair has just been launched by website.

The website runs from today until this Thursday and aims to help students with their CAO choices.

The new service comes as figures out this morning shows that so far, more than 54,000 people have applied through the CAO application to attend college this September.

Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on contemporary collaborative arts projects.

The aim of the scheme is to encourage meaningful collaboration between communities of place and/or interest and artists.

The scheme is open to artists from any of the following artform disciplines: architecture, circus, street art and spectacle, dance, film, literature (Irish and English language), music, opera, theatre, visual arts and traditional arts.

Thurs 19 Jan, Coffee Dock on the main campus, 6-8pm.

An information evening for mature students who are considering going to college will be held at Athlone Institute of Technology on Thurs 19 Jan. 

The event will primarily focus on full-time undergraduate courses for which people must apply to the Central Applications Office (CAO) before 1 February. Information will also be available on how to apply through the CAO and the assessment process operated by AIT.

Please click here for application form

St Stephen's Green Trust has opened its 2012 General Grant Scheme.  There is one grants meeting in 2012 and the deadline for receipt of applications is Thursday, 23rd February, 2012. Successful grantees will receive their grants in April.

General Grant Scheme - Programme Areas 2012:  Grants will be made to organisations working in 3 specific areas.  They are homelessness, prisoners / ex-prisoners and Travellers.  Please note the Trust is not accepting applications from organisations with income of more than €500,000 in 2012.