To celebrate Culture Night 2022 Bere Island Community Radio will hold a Scriocht on Friday 23rd September from 7.00pm to 9.00pm Desy’s Bar, Rerrin. John Green from C103FM will be MC for the night and refreshments will be available. All are welcome to come along and share their songs and stories. For further information contact …
Smart Villages concepts are a huge part of the next LEADER Programme 2023-2027 online training sessions are being held to assist communities in preparing a Smart Village Plan. The dates for the Cork islands will be as follows:22nd September6th October20th October3rd November17th November1st December The curriculum consists of six x 2-hour modules which guides participants …
Bere Island Projects Group will be publishing the annual Christmas Newsletter for 2022 and are looking for your contributions. We welcome all submissions of family news or photographs from the past year. Tributes to loved ones who have passed away in the last year, stories of past Christmases on Bere Island, poetry, short stories – …
Please note the Bere Island Projects Group Office will be closed from Tuesday 2nd to Friday 5th August, reopening on Monday 8th August.
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 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, …
Bere Island Radio producing podcasts for EU Clean Energy Secretariat Read More »
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 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 …
Bere Island Projects Group Awarded CLAR Funding to Purchase Electric Bus Read More »
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 …
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 …
