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Please click on the link to access the Back To School Information Leaflet developed by Limerick CYPSC and East Limerick CFSN. The leaflet touches on routines (sleep, screen time and mealtime) as well as how to maintain these routines once established. It also gives tips on communicating with children, managing any anxiety that may present as they return to school and parent self-care.

Please click on the link below for advice on when to wear face coverings and how to make them.

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/aac74c-guidance-on-safe-use-of-face-coverings/

Meath Local Sports Partnership (LSP) as part of the Government of Ireland COVID-19 club small grant scheme is providing support to sports clubs and community groups based in Co. Meath. The grant scheme is designed to support clubs and groups (whose primary focus is the delivery of sport or physical activity), and who do not have the finances to implement COVID-19 related hygiene and social distancing protocols.

This grant can cover costs associated with the reopening of sports clubs & physical activity and is intended to support the return to sporting & physical activities only.

The COVID 19 Club Small Grants can be used to support COVID 19 related expenditure dating from 2^nd May 2020 onwards (date of publication of Government roadmap to recovery). Meath LSP and Sport Ireland will work together to ensure that the investment is distributed fairly. Every effort will be made to ensure that the wider sports community benefits from this scheme.

There is an upper limit of €1,500 per club/group; applicants will be assessed on demonstrable need. Decision of the committee is final, canvassing will disqualify. Clubs/groups should not feel that they have to apply for the full amount to be considered eligible for support.

This is an online based application – follow link: http://www.meathsports.ie/meath-lsp-covid-19-club-small-grant-scheme/

In exceptional circumstances, paper applications will be accepted (paper forms are available on request).

Conditions of the grant – clubs/organisations must:

• Be based in Co. Meath
• Be affiliated to a Sport Ireland recognised National Governing Body or disability sports organisation and/or operate as a not for profit with a primary purpose of encouraging sport and physical activity
• Be open for public membership

If an organisation requires assistance in filling out the application form or has any queries in relation to the grant scheme please contact our office, by email: [email protected] or telephone: 046 9067337.

Closing Date for applications is Monday 31^st August 2020 at 3pm.

Starting college or any new course can be challenging at the best of times. During the Coronavirus pandemic this challenge becomes even harder. For all students there have been loads of different challenges that made finishing years or completing courses pretty tough going. With September just around the corner, students may be feeling anxious about what to expect.

Are you a Traveller or Roma who may be starting a new course or preparing for your first day in a new college? Come join us for the first in a series of Whidden Workshops – it’s Kushti to Rokker, next Friday the 31st of July where we will have a number of Traveller and Roma students getting together on Zoom. These students will share their stories while also offering up advice for any prospective students from each of their communities.

There will be Traveller and Roma students who are currently studying Business, Community and Youth Work, Teaching, in apprenticeships and a number of others joining in to talk about their experience.

The event is being hosted by Cork Institute of Technology, Maynooth University and College Connect. If you’d like any further information you can call or email Declan at 087 331 3412 or [email protected]. Zoom link by email only.