Avondhu Blackwater partnership would like to thank all those who helped organise events for this years heritage week. This years events included: Heritage walk with Christy Roche of the Catholic buildings and Heritage of Fermoy Open day of Christchurch Fermoy, and talks on the history of the Protestant churches in North Cork Public outdoor Screening…
National Spring Clean Month is upon us again and great work was recently carried out by the eager residents of Coolmona in Fermoy. The Spring Clean initiative, coordinated by Avondhu Blackwater Partnership, Fermoy Tidy Towns, Fermoy Town Council, and An Taisce is built on the principal of keeping your own locality tidy and has been…
Are you a new or existing Community Group? Avondhu Blackwater Partnership is currently offering Community Development training to members of community and voluntary groups. Course content, timing and duration will be tailored to meet the needs of your group. Modules can include Committee Skills, Project Planning, Financial Planning, Officers roles, Communication and PR (web-site and…
Are you a man living in Fermoy or surrounding areas? Do you have time on your hands? Would you like to get involved in a new community initiative aimed at sharing stories, skills and knowledge and exploring opportunities to help improve your current situation? If you have ideas worth discussing with other men in the…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership are organising 3 Occupational First Aid Fetac Level 5 courses for May. They are inviting participants to express their interest and each course can take 10 people which will be held in Fermoy, Mallow and Blarney depending on demand. Participants who have completed this course will be able to: Ensure employees are…
Work on the Fermoy area landscaping plans are well underway with Rathcarrig estate receiving a significant greening of its parking space. Saturday the 11th of February saw the Irish Tree Centre undertake a significant amount of paving removal and replacement with box hedging, hornbeam and flowering trees. While the immediate impact of such works is…
As part of the overall strategy to support people who are experiencing unemployment, Avondhu Blackwater Partnership is currently developing its programme of training opportunities for 2012. The opportunities outlined below are specifically aimed at those focusing on moving towards employment and are developed from needs identified that will help people to up-skill and enhance their…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership will co-ordinate an exciting new round of training for businesses aimed at bringing the level of hospitality and customer service in the area to the highest standard. The training will involve a half-day course option and a full day option for managers, supervisors and frontline staff. The course will give participants a…
Fermoy Winter Wonderland Official Video
Fermoy has scooped a major National Award due to the efforts of the town in putting on the Christmas Wonderland Festival and the activities of the traders in the weeks leading up to it. George Lee’s show, The Business, held a nationwide competition to find the towns in Ireland that had made the most effort…
The 2011 Fermoy Christmas Wonderland was officially unveiled in the Fermoy Town Park this week. There was snow falling and the white scene gave a teaser as to what to expect at this years festival. Speaking at the event, Avondhu Blackwater Partnership CEO Valerie Murphy commented, “Since last years successful festival, we have had so…
Do you live in the Mallow, Fermoy or Blarney area? Are you a College student and finding transport difficult? Avondhu Blackwater Partnership is researching the need for bus services to third level colleges for people living in the Mallow, Fermoy and Blarney hinterlands. The partnership has received several calls in recent weeks from people who…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership is hosting a number of one-day workshops in late September and October. Aimed at people from the Greater Blarney, Fermoy and Mallow areas who are currently unemployed. The workshop will be a powerful first step towards empowering you to get back into the job market. The programme is designed: To equip you…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership’s Blackwater Valley Heritage Trail was launched this week by Mr. Tom Barry TD. The innovative series of tours have been developed by the local development company to promote the rich heritage of the Blackwater Valley and to enhance the huge tourism potential of North Cork. To augment the tours a free high…
In the latest of his series of articles on how we look at our town, Avondhu Blackwater Partnership’s Cathal o’ Meara looks at a gap in the market in Fermoy for a farmers market. ‘The idea of a local economy rests upon only two principles: neighborhood and subsistence…” Wendell Berry. Growing numbers of towns throughout…
Blackwater Community Connect will be having their annual Street Collection in Fermoy and Mallow on Friday the 29th of July. Proceeds will go towards maintaining the provision of the friendly phone call service for the elderly, which is now operating throughout the North Cork and Avondhu/Blackwater areas. A handyman service also provides essential maintenance and…
Date & Times 20 August : 10:00 – 16:00 24 August : 10:00 – 16:00 27 August : 10:00 – 16:00 Admission: €25, €20 students and seniors Event Description: This heritage trail is a guided bus tour of the Blackwater Valley and Blarney. Three trails to choose from. Booking in advance essential. A specific child…
Streets are more than traffic, at their most basic level they are community spaces. Looking at past photos of Fermoy this is immediately evident. Patrick’s street served as a market, meeting place, thoroughfare and spectacle at the same time. We need to bring this rich texture of life back into our town to create a…
Are you a Community Group, a Sporting or Cultural organisation? Do you have project or a scheme that you would like to see delivered but cannot source the workers to do it? Well if you are willing to come up with the idea Avondhu Blackwater Partnership may have the solution for you. The TÚS Initiative…
As the recent Fermoy Street festival highlighted, vibrant, attractive streets with less traffic promote social and recreational activities, because people walking become inspired to linger and enjoy their town. And more people spending more time in the town can only be of benefit to local businesses in the long term. The Fermoy Street Festival gave…
Fermoy’s upcoming Summer Festival has been welcomed by Avondhu Blackwater Partnership as a further step in the establishment of Fermoy on the festival map. Last Christmas Avondhu Blackwater Partnership, the Local Action Group for Fermoy, created the idea for the Winter Wonderland Festival and the collective efforts of the businesses, clubs, organisations and people of…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership’s Landscape Architect Cathal O’ Meara has worked closely with the residents’ associations and Tidy Towns committee in recent times and outlines a fundamental flaw in how we interact with our town. Cathal explains, “Fermoy town has, like many Irish towns suffered a decline in the quality of its urban environment since the…
retirement group specifically for men will meet for the first time at Fermoy Youth Centre on April 13th at 2.30pm. At this first meeting some rare footage of Christy Ring in action will be shown as well as the All-Ireland Hurling Final between Cork and Kilkenny in 1966. With a low turnout of men attending…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership Ltd is the Local Development Company in the Fermoy/Mallow/Blarney area and has recently announced that they are seeking applicants for the Rural Social Scheme. This scheme aims to provide income support for Farmers and Fishermen who are currently in receipt of long-term social welfare payment, through the use of Community based Work…
Avondhu Blackwater Partnership have launched a new weekend Night Link bus service which will collect passengers at Araglin and Kilworth and deliver them to Corbett Court before arriving in Fermoy town. The Partnership, who already administer the Rural Transport Scheme in the Fermoy area, are expanding the service due to a gap in local weekend…
All too often we hear about the importance of older people being role models for our youth and how young people could learn to be more responsible citizens as a result of learning from the values and principles of older people. Well this week the tables were turned and we all learned a great deal…
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