The club were delighted to receive grant funding from Northern Ireland’s largest community and civic pride campaign, Live Here Love Here, which is now in its 10th year of grant assistance. The recent improvements have helped link parts of the current facility at Crewe which were hard and unsafe to access. It will improve access to the trees, flora and fauna around our beautiful setting over looking Lough Neagh and continue the added value we have in the local community and users.
The scheme is runs in partnership with nine local councils, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, and is aimed at promoting civic pride within communities and improving the environmental quality of shared green spaces to bring about cleaner, greener and safer places to live.
Orla McGrady, Grants Officer at Live Here Love Here explains how important the Scheme has become to communities throughout the last decade. She said: “Live Here Love Here is a people-powered campaign focused on improving our local environment and building a sense of civic pride in our local communities.
“Our Small Grants Scheme is an excellent example of this in practice. Over the past decade we have seen the lasting impact the scheme has made by helping people come together to work on a common goal.
“Everyone in the community benefits from the environmental and aesthetic improvements yielded as a result, and this is incredibly important to how people feel about and treat where they live.
“Last year alone, along with the support of local councils and the Housing Executive, we were able to help 89 groups deliver improvements worth £113,760. Whilst we are delighted to provide financial assistance, the groups that carry out these works should be commended for the real difference they make to their communities.
We are very grateful to the team at Live Here, Love Here for their continued support and thank them for all their assistance in making our club and environment a better place for us all.
