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Smart Villages Training

What are Smart Villages? Smart Villages are communities in rural areas that use innovative solutions to improve their ability to adapt to change, building on local strengths and opportunities. This 3min video by the European Network for Rural Development explains the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckB71hb0kx0 Why are Smart Villages important? Smart Villages work as a collective, implementing […]

Is your child starting school this year?

Starting Big School is a free online webinar for parents and guardians of children who will be starting in Primary school in September. Presented by Eimear Collins from the Archways Centre of Excellence for Child & Family Programmes the webinar will look at how to prepare your child for starting school, what to expect on […]

Free Biodiversity Awareness Training for Community Groups

Wexford LCDC is delighted to offer this free course for community groups. The course will be facilitated by ecologists Fionnuala O’Neill of BEC Consultants and Deborah D’Arcy. Participants will learn how to identify, protect and enhance local biodiversity. Field trips to some of County Wexford’s key sites for Biodiversity are included. Each group will receive […]

ELEVATE – young achievers

Starting in September WLD will be running a new long term educational initiative for young people in Enniscorthy to help them reach their full potential. ELEVATE will support children from 6th class in primary school all the way to 6th year in second level. Supports will include individual subject tuition, outdoor education, artistic expression and […]

New Training Available

WLD has some exciting new training opportunities starting soon. If you are interested in finding out more about working in childcare there is a 2 day Introduction to Childcare course starting 23rd June. We also have a one day course in Lámh, the manual sign language used by young people and adults with learning disabilities. […]

Virtual Open Day for IT Carlow

This Saturday, 15th May, IT Carlow is holding a Virtual Open Day from 10am until 1pm. Lecturers will give live talks and answer questions about the full time CAO courses at both the Carlow and Wexford campuses. For full details please check the IT Carlow website

FREE Climate Action Training Course

Climate Change is challenging our society both nationally and locally and will have considerable impact on local Wexford communities. To address this challenge Wexford Local Development (WLD) is offering a FREE climate action training course to help you and your community build climate awareness and local climate capacity. This FREE 4 week course offers participants an exciting […]

LEADER funding to drive post-Covid recovery in Co Wexford

As featured in the Wexford People paper on Tuesday 16th March 2021   WEXFORD Local Development (WLD) has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Rural & Community Development Heather Humphreys TD, and the Minister for Agriculture Food & Marine Charlie McConalogue TD, of an increased allocation of €70 million in 2021 & 2022 for […]