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St Patricks Rowing Club: (€900)
Input: 15th May 2015
Status: Under review
Closing Date: 14th May 2016
St. Patricks Rowing Club is a voluntary organisation. It is made up with both senior and junior members who work together in order to achieve the best possible environment for the club.
We always try our best to recruit as many children as possible in order to keep them off the streets and out of harms way.
We currently have 40+ junior members, which are all in the community of Ringsend, where there is a lot of hardship and social exclusion. Parents have financial difficulties and a lot of the time cannot afford to have their children in sports clubs.
Every year, the safety equipment for our junior members needs to be updated, which is increasing each year. We also need a certificate for the life jackets which also need to be renewed each year.
As we are a voluntary organisation, there is very little funding available to us for the amount if equipment we need in order to keep our members in a safe environment.
As there are 10 rowing clubs on the East Coast, each club has a different colour to represent their club. For the past few years, we have been unable to provide matching uniforms for our junior members because if the lack of funds and their parents cannot afford to pay for them either.
A word from the Local Area Fund:
The local area fund has recently come up with the idea if selling 'spot the balls' cards as a way of raising money, but as that is not enough for what they need, we have proposed the idea of matching whatever funds they raise on the fund raising drive up to the value of €900