5-Year Plan Launch Invitation

County Wexford Community Forum AGM

This recent event in the Riverside Park Hotel, Enniscorthy, gave the newly incorporated Askamore Muintir Na Tíre Community Council Ltd. an opportunity to showcase our recent local developments. A number of organisations  from around the county as well as ourselves had stands at the AGM.

Jim Gilbert and Lorraine Morris, our newly appointed Development Assistant, manning the Askamore Stand at the Forum AGM

More information on County Wexford Community Forum and its work here.

Askamore Community Texting

Askamore Community Council and Askamore Community Alert have worked together to set up and run this local initiative to try to cut down break-ins and thefts locally.

Over 270 people have signed up their mobile phones, and once a report of suspicious activity locally is verified, each of those 270 people receive a text alerting them to the activity / car etc. A number of Guards in Bunclody and Gorey stations also receive the texts.

This scheme has proved successful in the Rathnure / White Mountain area, and other areas outside Co. Wexford, and robberies have decreased wherever they are in place.

The newly-erected signs, placed at the entrance to the half-parish area, alert everyone, those welcome and those unwelcome, that they are entering an area where people are alert to what’s going on in the area.

Anyone who would like to join may do so by contacting Mary Kenny on 0861541948 or Mary Donohoe on 0861633341. The cost to join is €5.

The area covered is roughly the half parish of Askamore and the immediate surrounding areas.

Askamore Community Council – survey

Askamore Community Council – survey
The survey, which will try to find out the opinions of people in the half-parish of Askamore on the various elements of the draft 5-year plan has been distributed to every household within the past few days by members of Askamore Community Council.

The surveys will  be collected by next Monday, January 16th, and the data collated and compiled confidentially to form the basis of the new plan for the area for the next 5 years.

Please fill in the survey and give your honest opinions on the questions, so that we can get a true picture of how the community wants to develop.

The survey may also be left in the postbox of the Activity Centre, behind the Childcare in Askamore.

Askamore 5-year plan survey

Askamore Community Council is in the process of distributing a survey to each of the almost 300 households in the Askamore half-parish area. This is in an attempt to involve as many as possible locally in the future of Askamore.

The 3-page survey includes questions on how locals use the facilities available, such as the hall and the new Activity Centre, and also how they would like to see the area develop in the next 5 years.

Some of the initiatives proposed  are the re-opening of a small shop locally, the development of the garden space behind the church, and the promotion of Askamore and the north Wexford area generally as an area of heritage. People are also being asked to give their own thoughts and comments on any or all aspects covered by the survey.

The survey has been professionally developed by Rural Development Officer Dr. Yvonne Byrne, working with the 17-strong members of the Community Council. Yvonne will collate the confidential responses, and present them publicly later in 2012. These responses will form the basis for the next Askamore 5-year plan.

Members of the Council will distribute and collect the survey in the coming days, as the final date for completing the survey is Monday, January 16th. This is an exciting time for the development of resources locally and it is hoped that there is a strong response to the survey.