KELT Golf Classic to fund initiatives
KILDARE GENERAL, 26 July: by Bill Trapman. KELT (the County Kildare based European Leader Company) is holding a Golf Classic at Killeen Golf Club on August 20th as one of the ways of raising funds to support their work on community based initiatives in the County. KELT Community Director, Paul Croghan said that the reason for raising funds at this stage is that KELT has a number of these projects that cannot wait until the money becomes available later this year under the European and National Leader funds.
"People normally associate KELT with being a funding organisation, but we decided to raise funds to continue our work on community based projects where we felt that the momentum would be lost unless this work continued now," he says. "All the money raised will be used directly on projects, because staff costs are being paid under interim funding arrangements from the Government. KELT has a good track record of empowering communities to take initiatives and under Leader 2 KELT assisted over nine hundred community and voluntary groups and almost three thousand people in training support projects."
KELT has submitted business plans to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, for consideration under the next round of European and National Leader Programmes and we are confident of success. We want to continue with the successful work under Leader 2, which resulted in £8.4m (public and private funds) being invested for the benefit of people, communities and local enterprise in County Kildare.
"The KELT Golf Classic is being held at Killeen Golf Club in Kill, which is one of the most attractive courses in County Kildare. The competition is for teams of four players, but even if you have not a full team you can contact KELT and every effort will be made to accommodate people to participate. By supporting the KELT Golf Classic the people of County Kildare can combine a social event with the opportunity to support community based initiatives in the County, so that the real impact of the event will be that Kildare people can help each other."
Contact: Justin Larkin, Programme Manager, KELT. Telephone: 045 861973
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