TRIPEND Launch

County Armagh Community Development recently received funding from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Rural Challenge Programme to assist in delivering a new project to help target isolation and social exclusion in the Newtownhamilton area.

Gerard Treacy from Department of Agriculture and Rural Development helped launch the programme on Thursday 29th April at 2.30pm in Newtownhamilton Orange Hall. He is pictured above with David McMullen, Jim Copeland and Samuel Courtney. 

Working with community groups in Newtownhamilton, the County Armagh Community Development Committee, through this project, will attempt to meet a very real and established need in this rural area.

Brian Groves explaining the benefits of Rural Transport to attendees.

A programme consisting of talks and information sessions aimed at tackling rural isolation, poverty and social exclusion has been drawn up. These sessions will also include aspects of light entertainment and will have the added benefit of improving the health and wellbeing of the rural dwellers in the Newtownhamilton area.

The programme will run from September 2010 to March 2011.

This project is funded by DARD Rural Challenge Programme.