BIPG Office Closed
Please note the Bere Island Projects Group Office will be closed from Tuesday 2nd to Friday 5th August, reopening on Monday 8th August.
Bere Island Community Update
Little Lambs’ Library, Rerrin
Paula Larkin has very kindly installed a free children’s lending library outside her house in Rerrin. Children are welcome to help themselves to a book and to donate any book they have finished with so that other children can enjoy it. There’s also a small number of adult books in the library. Paula has installed …
Bere Island Radio producing podcasts for EU Clean Energy Secretariat
Bere Island Community Radio have produced a series of podcasts on behalf of the EU Clean Energy Secretariat. The Clean energy for EU islands secretariat, an initiative of the European Commission, is the central platform for the clean energy transition of the more than 2,200 inhabited European islands. Despite having access to renewable sources of energy, …
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COVID-19 Loan Scheme
The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine have recently launched a new loan scheme, the “COVID-19 Loan Scheme” targeted to eligible SMEs and small mid-cap businesses, including those in the primary agriculture (farming) and seafood (fishing) sectors in Ireland that have been impacted by COVID-19.
Bere Island Projects Group Awarded CLAR Funding to Purchase Electric Bus
Bere Island Projects Group have been awarded €72,693 of CLÁR funding from the Department of Rural and Community Development to purchase an electric wheelchair accessible bus and install a PV charging point at the island community centre. The funding was announced by Minister Heather Humphreys, as part of an overall €412,000 funding package for eleven …
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The Hold
The Hold, will open on Bere Island on Friday 17th June, and documents the lives of twenty four Bere Island women throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and the hold the island has on them. The women, formed a collective – Bere Island Women Create – and during lockdown worked remotely with award winning island artist Mary Sullivan to …
Recording Our Bere Island History
A project to record the oral history of Bere Islanders at home, and abroad is now underway. Earlier this year Bere Island Projects Group were one of a small number of community groups who were successfully accepted onto the Heritage Keepers programme, a new initiative set up by the Burren Beo Trust and facilitated by The Heritage …
Bere Island Projects Group win County Final of National Lottery Good Causes Awards
Bere Island Projects Group are among the six groups in Cork who have been announced as County winners in the National Lottery Good Causes Awards 2022. It’s the second time Bere Island has featured in the Good Causes Awards, the group made reached the finals in 2019. The awards were created to honour and showcase the inspiring …
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News Archive
Tuesday 17th May Heritage KeepersBere Island Projects Group are one of the groups who have been taking part in the Burren Beo Trust’s Heritage Keepers Programme. A group of 7 from Bere Island undertook the online training programme and have decided to base their project on recording an oral history of Bere Island. A leading oral history expert, …
Launch of Creative Places West Cork Islands
Creative Places: West Cork Islands’ has been launched by Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr. Gillian Coughlan at Whiddy Island Community Centre. Forming part of the Arts Council’s Creative Places programme 2021-2024, the programme will see Cork County Council lead a consortium of local arts and development agencies that inclues Bere Island Projects Group, Sherkin Island Development …