Tipperary Public Participation Network(PPN) along with 30 other PPNs is to get 20% boost in funding.
Minister Joe O’Brien revealed the detail of funding announced in the Budget at an event in the Strand Hotel in Limerick last week marking the 10-year anniversary of the creation of the PPNs across the country. The Two-day conference, whose theme was “Collaboration for Resilient Communities’, brings PPN representatives together to discuss citizen engagement.
Almost 21,000 community groups nationwide are members of the 31 PPNs across Ireland- some 1300 in county Tipperary.
From January 2025 each PPN will receive just over €100,000 in core funding from the Government, more than double the original allocation of €50,000 each in 2015 and an increase of almost 20% on 2024.
A PPN is a network for Community and Voluntary, Social Inclusion and Environmental groups in each local authority area. Public Participation Networks are designed to identify and respond to the needs and priorities of their communities by hosting events to benefit member organisations and also by nominating representatives to serve on Committees such as Strategic Policy Committees of Tipperary County Council and to the Community Safety Partnership – a new structure taking over from Joint Policing Committees.
