ANNUALREPORT

2018

B R AY A R E A PA R T N E R S H I P

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Foreword 2

About Bray Area Partnership 3 Key achievements in 2018 at a glance 4

Providing pathways to progression 5

Community work 8

Supporting children and families 10

Collaborative work 12

Case study: SPECS Bray: making a difference 14

Case study: Healthy Ireland workshops in local schools 15

Members of the Bray Area Partnership Board in 2018 16 Bray Area Partnership staff in 2018 17 Summary of accounts 19

Our funders in 2018 20

CONTENTS

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Welcome to our 2018 Annual Report, designed to give you a flavour of the range of initiatives and projects we delivered over the year as part of our social inclusion work locally.

Demand remained high in 2018 for the services we provide to support local individuals, groups and communities. Actions over the year included: sign-posting and referring people to services; welfare to work supports; education and training for adults and young people; resourcing community businesses and self-employment ventures; labour market schemes; family support; health and well-being initiatives; and building capacity and skills in local communities.

In carrying out this work, we continued our close collaboration with a wide range of organisations to ensure more integrated and joined-up local services.

Again in 2018 we faced the challenge of doing more with less resources. The bulk of our funding was sourced from the central exchequer. A significant change to funding in recent years is the requirement for competitive tendering for programmes. In this regard, and following our successful bid, we were awarded the contract for the Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2018-22 for the Bray and Greystones Municipal Districts Lot area. SICAP is one of the main programmes that resources our inclusion-focused work and is an essential component of our funding stream.

We are committed to delivering a quality service across all aspects of our work. In 2018 we again achieved, and generally exceeded, targets set for the programmes we manage and deliver and met all legislative and regulatory requirements. Our continuous improvement methodology in governance and service delivery was recognised by the retention of the Q Mark for quality management systems.

Health and well-being was an exciting new area of our work in 2018. We received funding from Healthy Ireland for a Social Prescribing service. Social Prescribing works with individuals to help them access community-based activities and supports to improve their own well-being. We expect this work to continue to grow in importance in coming years.

The effectiveness of our work relies on the involvement and commitment of many in the area. This input is essential to building and sustaining an inclusive and equal society. We acknowledge this support - long may it continue and be allowed to happen.

FOREWORD

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Bray Area Partnership is a local development company working in Greater Bray, North Wicklow and surrounding areas.

Our vision

Our vision is a strong, vibrant and inclusive society where everyone has an equal chance to achieve their potential and participate in the social, cultural, economic and political life of the community.

Our mission

Our mission is to work in partnership with all sectors of the local community to achieve a more fair and inclusive society by increasing equality of access to basic services, education, training and employment for marginalised individuals and groups.

We work collaboratively to empower local people and communities to have a say on issues that affect them, identify their own needs and make positive changes in their lives.

To achieve this, we work to:

• bring the local community together to identify the needs and issues of disadvantaged groups and communities;

• take action that will make a real difference - such as setting up initiatives, services and projects in the community;

• provide a range of direct services and supports to individuals and groups;

• bring funding and investment into the local area and fund local services;

• build the capacity of local people and communities to have a say on issues that affect them;

• promote awareness and uptake of services available in our community;

• undertake policy work to bring about change that will improve the situation for local people, groups and communities.

Our work is guided by our Strategic Plan - developed with input from all sectorsof the local community - and is implemented through our support programmes in the areas of community and education, employment services and enterprise development.

We provide services and supports for a range of people – such as people who are unemployed, disadvantaged, low income or welfare dependent; Travellers; substance misusers; refugees and asylum seekers; ex-offenders; people with disabilities; and young people who are at risk or are not currently in training, education or employment.

We also provide supports to local community groups who work with people in these target groups.

ABOUT BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP

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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018

Supports under SICAP April-December 2018• 400 people were supported overall.• 192 people received education & training supports.• 208 people received employment supports.• 30 people were supported into employment.• 31 people progressed into self- employment.• 247 children received educational and developmental supports.• 24 local community groups were supported.

Local Employment Service• 1,100 people received supports from our Local Employment Service Network.• 852 progressions into employment, training, education and labour market programmes.

Enterprise service• 280 people received one-to-one support to progress their business idea. • 46 people progressed onto the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance.• Three enterprise networking events were held.• Two Considering Self-employment courses were delivered.

Supporting community groups• 49 local community groups were supported across all our programmes.• 16 of these community groups were also supported through our Tús community work placement initiative.

Labour market programmes• 101 people took part in our Tús community work placement initiative.• 19 people took part in our Community Employment scheme.

Supporting families• 50 families were supported through the SPECS Preparing for Life programme.• 80 parents were supported through the Parents Plus Early Years and Parenting When Separated programmes and the Circle of Security programme.• Seven parents were supported through the Parents Plus Adolescents Programme.• 16 families were supported through the Meitheal family support service.• 31 children attended our community-based childcare service Fun Dayz.

Providing information• 710 people received regular e-newsletters with useful information on local services, supports, opportunities, resources and community news.• Over 80 rights and entitlements queries were dealt with during Entitlements Awareness Week.• Information was provided via websites and social media pages managed by BAP including: Bray Area Partnership, Disability Bray, Adult Education Handbook, Fáilte Isteach Bray & Kilcoole, and Wicklow Community Directory.

Warmer Homes scheme• 50 homes received free home insulation through our Better Energy Warmer Homes scheme.

Integration Support Project• 30 people received one-to-one support. • Five people were supported through the Progression Fund.

2018 AT A GLANCE

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2018

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OUR WORK IN 2018

Our Local Employment Service Network

Our LESN supported almost 1,100 job seekers during 2018.

Almost 1,000 of these were referred by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, who fund the LESN, under the Pathways to Work Initiative, which aims to make unemployed people more aware of progression options, supports them to overcome barriers to accessing employment, education or training, and provides ongoing LESN guidance support for up to a year, with a focus on progression into employment.

In addition to one-to-one guidance support, our LESN provided a range of services to job seekers such as CV preparation or update, job search, access to education and training, interview skills training, mock interviews, Job Alert weekly listing of local jobs, information on welfare to work supports, and inter-agency referrals.

In 2018 we operated an outreach service in Kilcoole providing information on job opportunities and education and training.

252 people moved into full-time jobs in 2018 and there were over 600 other progressions into part-time employment, education, training and labour market programmes.

In 2018 our weekly Job Alert listing of local jobs moved online to our website, making it available to anyone looking for work in the area, whereas before it had only been available to subscribers to our Job Alert e-mails.

The display boards in the window of our Local Employment Service office on Main Street Bray continued to provide a valuable space for

job seekers to get up-to-date information on current job vacancies, schemes and courses – as did our Facebook page, which had over 1,000 followers by the end of the year.

Work Skills Training programme

Having the right skills and qualifications can be a real help in getting work, or moving from unemployment to self-employment.

Our Training for Work programme provided these courses in 2018 to help people from the groups we work with to upskill and gain qualifications relevant to the world of work:

• 5 Safe Pass courses, attended by 83 people• 3 Manual Handling courses, attended by 59 people • 2 Barista workshops plus work experience attended by 11 people • A Public Service Assessment Test Preparation course, attended by 36 people• A Get Job Ready programme for 15-24 year-olds, attended by six people• Two Creative Social & Personal Development programmes, attended by 10 people.

Education Grants Scheme

The costs of attending further or higher education can be a real barrier for students and families on a low income. Our Education Grants Scheme in 2018 provided small grants to 33 low income students from disadvantaged communities to help with the costs of college registration, course or exam fees.

Grant recipients took up a wide range of courses such as Sports Exercise & Fitness Instruction, Nursing/Midwifery, Digital Media Production, Social Care Practice, Tourism, TV & Film Production, Accountant Technician and Animal Care.

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OUR WORK IN 2018

Supporting people into self-employment

We worked collaboratively with Bray Community Enterprise in 2018 to support 280 people who wanted to become self-employed, including:

• Two 6-week Considering Self-employment courses where participants explored their skills, developed their business idea, created a business plan and increased their skills.

• One-to-one support to help individuals explore different business structures to identify the most suitable one for their new business, guidance on market research and support to develop a Marketing Plan.

• Information on financial supports available, such as the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance, Enterprise Support Grant and Trading Online Vouchers.

• Support to develop a detailed Business Plan and 12-month Cash Flow Forecast.

• One-to-one mentoring and business plan development to support clients to progress onto the Back to Work Enterprise Allowance (BTWEA) or Short Term Enterprise Allowance. 46 people were supported to sign onto the BTWEA in 2018.

• Ongoing support after business set-up, for example with business reviews, financial projections and funding applications.

• The Early Stage Entrepreneurs Network, with regular meet-ups for clients to network and hear talks on topics such as Tax Returns and Book-keeping.

The people behind the numbers

Examples of clients who received one-to-one support and training to set up their own business in 2018.

Pilates and Fitness With Linda

Linda McGrath attended our Business Boot Camp, and received one-to-one support to set up her new business, Pilates & Fitness With Linda.

Jem Property Maintenance

John Matthews attended our Start Your Own Business course and received one-to-one support to set up his new business JEM Property Maintenance.

PROVIDING PATHWAYS TO PROGRESSION

Integration Support Project

30 people received one-to-one support from our Integration Support project (ISP) in 2018.

ISP works with stabilised and recovering substance misusers to support them to prevent and manage relapse, meet their basic needs and progress in their lives in areas such as education, training and employment.

The project is supported by Bray Local Drugs & Alcohol Task Force, with funding through the Health Service Executive Addiction Services.

Five people accessed the Progression Fund in 2018, which supported them to take up education and training.

Others took part in BAP courses such as parenting programmes and Safe Pass and a small number were supported through the SICAP Education Grants Scheme.

Community Employment scheme

Our Warmer Homes CE scheme employed 19 people in 2018 - providing participants with work experience and the chance to develop skills they could use in the workplace, as well as training in areas such as Installation of Insulation, Acting for Camera, Hand Held Pesticide, Digital Marketing, Medical Terminology and Customer Care.

Participants are encouraged to seek permanent part-time and full-time jobs elsewhere based on experience and skills they gain on the scheme. Three CE participants left the scheme in 2018, with two progressing to employment.

Tús community work placement initiative Our Tús community work placement initiative provided short-term work opportunities for 101 unemployed people in 2018.

Participants benefited from gaining work experience and skills. Over the year, 50 participants completed placements and 51 joined the scheme. Eleven progressed onto further education, Community Employment, part-time employment, full-time employment and volunteering opportunities.

16 local community organisations were supported through the scheme - from community centres and sports clubs to disability services and community groups.

2018 saw an exciting development with the start of a new project to support the WHAD local residents group, which represents the residents of Whiteoaks, Heatherwood, Ard na Greine and Deerpark estates, off the Boghall Road. Our Tús workers cleared litter and weeds from the raised flower beds that surround the common green space, and planted new shrubs and plants, and will continue to maintain these spaces, working in co-operation with residents.

PROVIDING PATHWAYS TO PROGRESSION

OUR WORK IN 2018

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OUR WORK IN 2018

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OUR WORK IN 2018

You can read here about some of our projects and work in the local community in 2018 - including support for local community groups.

Community Lunch

More than 100 people from the local community attended our Community Lunch in December, where they got the chance to network, browse stalls from local services and community groups, and hear a talk on our new Social Prescribing and Well-being service.

Social Enterprise workshop

We held an Introduction to Social Enterprise workshop in 2018 to provide an opportunity for local organisations to learn more about the social enterprise model and the potential it might have for them.

The workshop covered: types of social enterprises; five key elements to get right; corporate finance; funding; human resources; and getting a social enterprise off the ground.

Seven local organisations attended and discussion on the day gave rise to ideas that will inform future work in this area.

Training for community groups

We provided these workshops in 2018 to support local community groups in their work, informed by needs highlighted by groups who completed our Training Needs Survey:

• A half-day Social Media for Community & Voluntary Groups workshop;

• A one-day ENGAGE Connecting with Young Men on Mental Health and Well-being workshop, run in collaboration with the HSE;

• A Good Governance: the Role of the Committee workshop.

New Social Prescribing service

At the end of 2018 we launched our new Social Prescribing service, which supports people’s health and well-being by linking them in with activities and supports in the community - such as exercise, art, reading and gardening - or self-help sessions such as stress control.

Warmer Homes scheme

Our Warmer Homes scheme provided free home insulation to 50 low income home owners in 2018 - increasing the energy efficiency and comfort level of their homes.

The scheme also provided employment for 19 people through a Community Employment scheme.

Warmer Homes is funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland through the Better Energy Warmer Homes and Dept. of Employment Affairs &Social Protection Community Employment schemes.

COMMUNITY WORK

Providing information to groups

Our regular e-newsletters, websites (such as BAP, Disability Bray, Adult Education Handbook and Wicklow Community Directory) and connected social media pages provided information to community and voluntary groups in 2018 to support them in their work.

As well as letting groups know about our services, supports and training courses, we also provided information on resources that might be useful to groups, local and national funding opportunities and initiatives, and promoted groups’ upcoming activities and events.

New Governance Programme

In response to the challenges smaller groups can face in implementing good governance best practice in their organisations, we started a new Governance Programme in 2018, designed to support them through this process.

The first workshop took place in late 2018, with more to follow in 2019 – each with a gap in between to allow time for groups to do the necessary work - and time at the beginning of each workshop to address any issues or challenges they had encountered.

Local Resource Centres

We continued to support Bray Family Resource and Development Project in 2018 to operate local resource centres in Old Court and Fassaroe, with funding of €122,768 for staff costs provided from our SICAP programme.

We also placed 12 staff over the course of the year through our Tús Community Work Placement Initiative to provide a range of valuable services in the area.

Fáilte Isteach project

80 learners and 50 volunteer tutors took part in our three Fáilte Isteach projects in Little Bray, Ballywaltrim and Kilcoole during 2018.

Fáilte Isteach is a national Third Age Ireland initiative where people volunteer to teach conversational English to people from other countries who live in their community.

Improving their English helps learners participate more fully in society, and take part in further education and employment.

In addition, we collaborated with local schools and youth groups in 2018 to provide English language supports to seven young people who were unaccompanied minors living in the area.

Healthy eating programme

We ran two Cook, Eat, Share courses in 2018, attended by 26 people. Each class covered shopping and healthy eating on a budget, and was followed by a practical cookery demonstration and a relaxed group meal.

COMMUNITY WORK

OUR WORK IN 2018

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OUR WORK IN 2018

We continued in 2018 to develop and expand our family support services for local children, young people, parents, schools and community services - designed to build parenting competencies, promote better outcomes for children and tackle educational disadvantage.

You can read more about this work both in this section and also in Collaborative Work in the next section on pages 12 and 13.

SPECS Early Intervention Initiative

The SPECS Prevention and Early Intervention Initiative continued to provide a range of supports in the local community to improve outcomes for children and families.

In 2018 SPECS implemented a number of evidence-based programmes supporting over 200 parents and 40 practitioners, impacting positively on over 700 children.

Preparing for Life: Family mentors worked with over 50 families, starting from pregnancy, visiting families in their homes to provide support and information on a range of topics such as child development and parenting.

Parentings groups: SPECS delivered six parenting groups, and supported over 80 parents, through the Parents Plus Early Years programme (1-6 years), Parents Plus Parenting When Separated programme and the Circle of Security programme.

Language Development: SPECS, in collaboration with HSE Speech and Language, supported the roll out of the Languageland programme in six early years settings, upskilling 28 practitioners and impacting on the language and social skills development of over 170 children.

PEEP: SPECS started a new parenting and baby group-based programme in St. Fergal’s and in Little Rascals and, due to popularity, we plan to expand the programme in 2019.

Roots of Empathy: SPECS continued to support this in-school programme, which promotes social and emotional literacy and teaches empathy – with nine programmes running in primary schools, including Newcourt, St. Kieran’s, St. Patrick’s, St. Peter’s and Ravenswell.

SPECS is funded under the Government’s Area Based Childhood (ABC) Programme, with co-funding from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and Atlantic Philanthropies aligned with Tusla.

The SPECS programme was evaluated in 2018 and was found to have resulted in significant positive outcomes for local parents and children. You can read more about the evaluation findings in the case study on page 14.

SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

OUR WORK IN 2018

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OUR WORK IN 2018

Meitheal family support

Our Child and Family Support Network Community Worker supported 16 children and their families through the Meitheal process in 2018.

Meitheal brings together in one space a child, their family and people who can support them. All work together toward the common goal of helping the child do the best they can and reach their full potential.

This approach values the views of the parents and child, focuses on strengths and can help with problems such as school issues or not getting on with parents.

Parenting courses

In addition to our SPECS work, we also provided a number of additional Parents Plus parenting programmes in 2018:

• One Parents Plus Parenting Adolescents programme for parents and carers of young people aged 11-16, covering areas such as positive communication, building your teenager’s self-esteem and negotiating rules and boundaries.

• Two Parents Plus Children’s programmes for parents and carers of children aged 6-11, covering behaviour, positive communication and developing a closer relationship with your child.

• One Parents Plus Parenting When Separated programme, covering practical steps parents can take to help their children cope and thrive following a separation or divorce.

Fun Dayz Community Childcare

31 children attended our community-based pre-school service Fun Dayz in 2018.

Fun Dayz staff benefited in 2018 from Languageland speech and language training delivered through our SPECS service in collaboration with the HSE - increasing their capacity to support children to improve their speech and language skills.

We also provided a Parents Plus Early Years parenting programme for parents. English language supports for migrant children

We provided English language support in a local school to seven young people who were unaccompanied minors, using volunteer tutors from our Fáilte Isteach conversational English language project.

We also provided Fáilte Isteach training to a worker from Bray Youth Service, and supplied volunteer tutors to provide English language support to young people from new communities in Seomra Youth Centre.

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OUR WORK IN 2018

Working collaboratively is key to our approach and leads to better, more cohesive results. Read here about some of our collaborative work with others in the local community during 2018.

Entitlements Awareness Week

During Entitlements Awareness Week, we teamed up with Bray Citizens Information Centre to bring a mobile information service into local communities who have fewer services available to them – visiting several locations across the Greystones, Kilcoole and Bray areas. Over 80 people visited the mobile unit, with queries including disability payments, Old Age Pension entitlements, the Household Benefits Package, Medical Cards, services for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, how to get support to set up a business, and supports available when returning to work or education.

Bray Homeless Forum

We continued to resource and provide ongoing administrative support for the Bray Homeless Forum in 2018 including co-ordinating the updating of the Bray Services for the Homeless Leaflet.

FAB Film and Book Initiative

We worked with five local schools in 2018 to support the One Book One Community literacy initiative - designed to encourage children and their families to read together and take part in a range of activities based around one book.

Each child who took part received a copy of the chosen book, Refugee by Alan Gratz, and an activity pack to take home for family reading.

Non Violent Resistance training

We worked with local community groups and health and education workers in 2018 to develop a Non Violent Resistance (NVR) workshop to support practitioners to understand and respond to the increasing issue of child to parent violence.

The training is designed to support practitioners to facilitate parent groups or work individually with parents who have lost their authority in the relationship with their child. There is growing evidence that building or restoring parental authority through NVR is successful in addressing child and adolescent anxiety and self-harm. The training will continue to be rolled out to practitioners in 2019. Children and Young People’s Services Committee

The Children and Young People’s Services Committee enhances interagency co-operation to identify and address the needs of children and young people. We supported this work in 2018 by representation on the committee and the Youth Mental Health Sub-group and Prevention, Partnership and Family Support Network.

COLLABORATIVE WORK

Youth Mental Health Sub-group

Our Youth Mental Health Sub-group continued in 2018 to disseminate information on youth mental health, support a youth-led approach to youth mental health service development, and work to secure a Jigsaw service for the area.

Wicklow Co. Childcare Committee

We continued to work with Wicklow County Childcare Committee (WCCC) in 2018.This work involved representation on their board and interagency work with our SPECS Early Intervention Initiative - developing the capacity of community-based childcare services to implement the Aistear Síolta framework and improving the quality of services.

Bray Adult Education Network

We continued in 2018 to support the Bray Adult Education Network, which provides a forum for local adult education providers to work together to provide more integrated services in the local community.

One of the projects the network oversees is the Adult Education Handbook website. BAP staff continued in 2018 to manage and administer this website, which lists local education providers and support services and provides useful information on all aspects of further and higher education - including current news and events.

BAP Disability Network

Our Disability Network continued in 2018 to provide a space for people from local disability groups and services to meet, network, work together more collaboratively, and address issues for local people with disabilities.

Over the year, the network ran interactive Disability Awareness Workshops in local schools, which involved young adults with disabilities in facilitating and presenting about their lives.

Feedback from everybody who took part was exceptionally positive, with students’ before and after post-it notes on what the word ‘disability’ brought to mind showing a marked shift by the end of the workshop.

A very positive development in 2018 was when research the network had carried out in the local area on the placement of younger people with disabilities in nursing homes was picked up by the Disability Federation of Ireland and rolled out nationwide. Their research report on the national picture received widespread media coverage, highlighting this important issue.

Partnership staff also worked collaboratively with the Disability Federation of Ireland in 2018 to support the set-up and development of a new Disability Access Group of people with disabilities from the Bray and North Wicklow area.

Disability Awareness Workshop in St. Kilian’s Community School.

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CASE STUDY

A new way of working

An evaluation of our SPECS Bray initiative published in 2018 found that the work of this prevention and early intervention initiative had resulted in significant positive outcomes for local parents and children.

The evaluation report was entitled ‘A New Way of Working’ and looked at the period from the project’s set-up in 2015 to the end of 2017.

Over this period, SPECS worked with more than 300 parents and positively impacted on the lives of over a thousand children.

They also provided training to 85 local practitioners, including teachers, early years services, Public Health Nurses and community workers.

All programmes showed positive trends, with the majority showing statistically significant improvements for children and families.

Parents reported decreased stress and conflict and increased closeness with their child. As one parent put it:

“Everything good in our family’s life started with me doing that course with SPECS”.

Teachers reported significant improvements in children’s pro-social behaviours and emotional difficulties; and early years practitioners reported positive trends in school readiness.

SPECS stands for Supporting Parents and Early Childhood Services. This innovative project was set up in 2015 when Bray Area Partnership, in conjunction with a local consortium, was successful in securing substantial funding for the local area from the Government’s Area

Based Childhood (ABC) Programme.

Programmes delivered include Preparing for Life, where mentors visit parents in their own home right from pregnancy to give them support and information; and Parents Plus Early Years and Parenting When Separated parenting programmes.

In the wider community, SPECS has supported the Strengthening Families programme run by Bray Family Resource and Development Project and the Roots of Empathy programme in local primary schools - a programme that promotes social and emotional literacy in children and teaches empathy.

The Early Years Quality Programme worked with community-based early years services - developing their capacity to implement the Aistear Síolta framework and improve the quality of their service.

You can read the full SPECS evaluation report at www.specsbray.com.

SPECS BRAY: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Sugar shock and pizza!

We provided fun, interactive Health & Nutrition workshops for children in a number of DEIS schools in Bray during 2018, as well as practical cookery courses for their parents.

In the workshops for children, the focus was on practical sessions where they learned about things like the traffic light system on food packaging and the sometimes shocking amount of sugar in common snacks and drinks. They also got hands-on experience in making food like pizzas from scratch.

The children then developed their own class charter of things they themselves planned to do and eat to improve their health.

The workshops were delivered with Healthy Ireland funding, with support from our SICAP programme, and in co-operation with Home School Community Liaison Officers in the schools. Healthy Ireland is a government-led initiative aimed at improving the health and well-being of everyone living in Ireland.

Course facilitator, Aisling Kirwan from Cooking Up Change, said she was delighted at how well the children engaged in the workshops and how they themselves linked the ‘sugar shock’ exercise to their own lives – and also went on to educate their parents about it!

Feedback from the children was very positive, with children in one school recording the workshops as one of the highlights of their whole school year. One boy gave this feedback:

“I used to eat a lot of takeaways, but since making the pizza dough from scratch my mum and I make it once a week and we don’t need to buy takeaway pizza again!”

Parents cooking up a storm

Soup made by parents in a Cook, Eat, Share class.

Children are better at making changes when the whole family do it together, so workshops for parents of the children were also an important component of the programme.

Our practical Cook, Eat, Share classes for parents focused on basic cooking with tips on how to add nutritional benefit to meals.

Classes were relaxed sessions where parents got hands on experience in making soups, breads, salads, pesto, dips and nutritional desserts – and then sat down together to eat the food they had made.

For many it was the impetus they needed to find the time in a busy day to do more cooking at home – as one parent said:

“The cooking class really helped me to get back to basics and start cooking from scratch again.”

HEALTHY IRELAND WORKSHOPS IN LOCAL SCHOOLS

CASE STUDY

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CASE STUDY

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MEMBERS OF THE BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP BOARD

Name Sector Organisation Group

John O’Brien Social Partner ICTU SIPTU

Judy Coolahan Social Partner ICTU Bray Council of Trades Unions

Eugene Finnegan Social Partner Bray & District Chamber of Commerce

Patricia Shortt 1 Community Marginalised, Disadvantaged Wicklow Trade and Unemployed Cluster Group Union Centre

Shay Hiney Community Disability Cluster Group National Learning Network

Ronan Mulhern Community Disability Cluster Group Cairdeas Clubhouse

John Smith Community Older People’s Cluster Group

Michael O’Connor 2 Elected Public Wicklow Co. Council Representative Municipal District of Bray

Tom Fortune Elected Public Wicklow County Council Representative Greystones Municipal District

Brendan Thornhill Elected Public Wicklow Co. Council Representative Bray Municipal District Gabriel Allen Statutory Kildare & Wicklow ETB

Celine Judge 3 Statutory Health Service Executive

Dermot O’Brien 4 Elected Public Wicklow Co. Council Representative Bray Municipal District

Moira Byrne 5 Community/Voluntary

Anne-Marie Community/Voluntary Bray Women’s RefugeMcMorrow6

*Note 1: Resigned in April 2018 *Note 4: Joined in April 2018*Note 2: Resigned in June 2018 *Note 5: Joined in November 2018*Note 3: Resigned in June 2018 *Note 6: Joined in November 2018

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BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP STAFF IN 2018

CEOPeter Brennan

Administration TeamDonna White Financial OfficerCiara Mooney Office Manager/Programmes OfficerOlivia Berry Receptionist/Secretary

Enterprise Support TeamEithne Gunning Enterprise Co-ordinatorGillian O’Neill Enterprise Development Officer

Warmer Homes schemeJames Brady CE SupervisorDavid Curry Surveyor/Assistant Project SupervisorOver the year the scheme was staffed by 19 Community Employment participants

Community and Education Programmes TeamJennifer D’Arcy Community and Education Programmes Co-ordinator Lorna Lafferty Education Development OfficerMichelle Rogers Communications OfficerSusanne Martin Education Outreach OfficerJennifer Jones Community Development OfficerSinéad Roarke Child and Family Support Network Community WorkerAli Rochford Social Prescribing Well-being Co-ordinator

Employment Services Support Programme TeamMary O’Carolan Employment Services Co-ordinatorSandra Jennings LESN AdministratorJackie Briggs LESN MediatorCathy Heffernan LESN MediatorMiriam Kane LESN MediatorSusan McGrane LESN Clerical OfficerKevin McGrogan LESN Employment Support OfficerThomas Manley ISP Integration Support Worker

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BRAY AREA PARTNERSHIP STAFF IN 2018

Fun Dayz Community Childcare Teresa Grant ManagerElizabeth Frawley Assistant ManagerMarian Ward Childcare WorkerNuria Cabaces Childcare WorkerFiona Murphy Childcare Worker (left October 2018)

SPECSMaryrose Costello Project Co-ordinatorLulu O’Kelly Development & Support WorkerClaire Murphy Development & Support Worker (started January 2018)Deirdre Murphy Development & Support Worker (started January 2018)Gillian O’Rourke Communications & Administrator Worker

Tús staff in 2018Team Leaders: Thomas ColemanMichael Byrne

Tús staff were located in the following organisations in 2018: [Michael to provide for 2018] Bray Area Partnership Festina LenteBray Emmets GAA Holy Redeemer Parish Bray Family Resource & Development Project Lakers Social & Recreational Club LtdBray Home Care Marino Community Special SchoolBray Methodist Church National Learning Network BrayBray Tourism St. Fergal’s Parish Bray Wanderers Sunbeam House ServicesEasi-Access Transport/HOMELink WHAD Residents Group

EXTRACT FROM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2018

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Supplementary Information relating to the Financial StatementsDetailed income & expenditure a/c for year ended 31st December 2018

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31/12/18 31/12/17

€ €

INCOME: Department of Employment Affairs & Social Protection 819,634 855,044Health Service Executive 110,792 104,512Receipts from Pobal 418,644 485,245Wicklow County Council 727,158 735,355Department of Children and Youth Affairs - 3,700SEAI 88,943 100,700Childcare Fees - Fun Dayz 1,565 4,629Other Income 7,430 1,500

2,174,166 2,290,685

WCC SICAP EXPENDITURE Administration & Monitoring 178,018 181,023Goal 1 Costs 199,913 150,758Goal 2 Costs 289,539 192,206Goal 3 Costs 46,316 188,104VAT 5,848 - 719,634 712,091

OTHER EXPENDITURE Wages / Administration / Support Costs 1,372,939 1,488,968LESN Mediator Fund Expenditure 9,170 8,320Fun Dayz 108,630 121,182Depreciation 20,253 17,097 1,510,992 1,635,567

NET DEFICIT (56,460) (56,973)

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OUR FUNDERS IN 2018

SICAP The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2018-2022 is co-funded by the Government of Ireland,

through the Department of Rural and Community Development and the European Social Fund underthe Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020.

Department of Employment Affairsand Social Protection

Department of Communications,Climate Action & Environment

Tusla Child and Family Agency

Wicklow County Council Healthy Ireland

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Health Service Executive

The Area Based Childhood Programme

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