Westmeath Community Development

Please find attached a leaflet from Mullingar Community College on their evening courses (page 2 and 3) and a list of their Day Courses (front page) which will be starting this September. 

Enrolment dates for Adult Education Courses taking place will be on taking place on Wednesday 6th September and Wednesday 15th September from 7.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. at Mullingar Community College.

To get further information on them please contact:-

Day Courses: Principal - Mr C Rowley
Evening Courses: Director of Adult Education - Mr P O'Carroll
Phone: 044 93 40786

Please click here for a list of the courses.

The Food and Health project is looking to train up more Food and Health instructors to facilitate our very popular community course - Healthy Food Made Easy, to community groups in counties Longford and Westmeath.

Training will start on 2nd November and will run for 5 weeks (on Tue/ Wed/ Thurs mornings) – this training will be in Athlone. 

Once trained Food and Health instructors are expected to deliver at least 2-3 courses per year (each course is 6 sessions). 

Midland Arts, Co. Westmeath VEC, Old National School, Kinnegad

Arts Education Courses 2010/11

''Cultural Leadership'

Would you like to see more arts and cultural activities in your community?

Here is a FETAC 5 course designed to support individuals, voluntary groups and communities to develop the skills to work together to encourage, organise and promote arts and cultural events and activities in their communities.

The course - delivered by award winning Social entrepreneur Conor O'Leary of the Rural Arts Network- includes planning and hosting local and touring arts events, budgeting and fundraising, tools for publicity, promotion and community radio training

NATIONAL TRAILS DAY is happening this year on Sunday 3rd October. It is a celebration of Ireland’s wonderful variety of trails and a chance for everyone to enjoy some of our most beautiful countryside, forests, mountains and lakes and we are calling on people to get involved and organise an event.

Along with the sponsorship of Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Coillte, the National Trails Office of the Irish Sports Council and Fáilte Ireland, this year we are also delighted to welcome the Countryside Activities and Access Network (NI) as sponsors, to make this the second successive year that National Trails Day will be an all-island event.

Triple P Parenting Training programmes will take place in Mullingar, Kinnegad and Athlone in Sept/October of 2010. 

Each programme consists of 7 weeks, the first 4 weeks are face to face sessions, next 2 weeks are support phone calls and the final week is certification.  The Athlone course is already full but we will be running other programmes.

The Venues and Dates for the courses are listed below:-