Tidy Towns Meetings February 2008

Many thanks to all who attended and also to those who offered their future support.

From our discussions we have listed our main objectives for 2008.

1. Tidy Town Survey: We will carry out a survey of the village on Saturday 1st of March at 12:00 noon. Itemising a comprehensive list of issues that will need addressing.
2. Fundraising: Will arrange an envelope collection in mid March. This proved successful in the past and provided much needed funds for projects, flower planting/tubs, waste collection etc. We will need more helpers in the village to deliver envelopes and then a few days later to collect hem. By having representatives in each of the Estates and Roads would greatly assist with this.
3. National Spring Clean Day: Ireland’s most popular, well recognised and successful anti-litter initiative. Now in its tenth year, the campaign encourages every sector of society to actively participate and take responsibility for litter. In early April we will be arranging our village clean up day. We hope to get as much support as possible, many hands make light work.
4. Tidy Towns Competition: We will be entering the 2008 Tidy towns Competition now in it’s 50^th year. Due to the housing developments of the past few year it seemed pointless for Balrothery to entry, but with a bit of work and community support we can at least set down the bench mark for future years starting this year.
5. Building Awareness: We represent the community and it is important that we keep the community up to date with our plans and news. We will be providing a newsletter posted around the village and in Dave’s shop and also through our local website www.balrothery.com. We will be supporting and promoting awareness of anti litter/ anti dog fowling campaigns etc. throughout the village and school in conjunction with Fingal County Council Environmental Section. We will be working closely together with Balrothery Heritage, The Community Council and local businesses supporting each other on local issues.

We are looking forward to a busy year and with good support from our local Community we can achieve a good level of success. Let’s have a cleaner, tidier village that we can all take even more pride in for 2008.

All contributions of support most welcome.

Best regards,

Balrothery Tidy Towns Committee