Mountain Lodge Wind Farm - Tidy Towns initiative 🖼 🖌

Cootehill Town Team was set up in 2017. Their aims and objectives are to improve the experience of living, shopping, playing and working in Cootehill. They encourage all members of the community to get involved.

The group are open to all local residents to get involved and have their say on how their town develops. They have developed sub-groups to embrace all aspects of the community i.e. Tidy Towns, Social Community Cultural, Accessibility and Economic.

The group were funded €3,152 from the Mountain Lodge Wind Farm, for the Upgrade of Community Playground project, and specifically towards the cost of seating, planters and a wall mural.

Spokesperson,Philomena McQuaid- Cootehill Town Team Social Community Group, has said:

‘With the aid and support of the Wind Farm Community Funds, we as a group have been enabled to participate in providing a much-improved area for the children and parents in our community. Our local playground had grown very tired and neglected. Broken items of equipment were being removed and not replaced. There was less and less on offer for those visiting. When we were successful in our bid for grant aid from the Wind Farm Community Fund, we were then able to work alongside the community to vastly improve the area, provide accessible seating allowing families and groups to be together. The mural creates a colourful, bright space, which improves wellbeing which in turn improves the experience of everyone using the space. None of this would have been achieved without the support of the Wind Farm Community Funds our group received. The application is straight forward and the committee applying felt it is that way to allow groups to be successful in their application. Our community will only improve with this kind of support, the lives of our children and families will only improve because of the support we have received’

Philomena McQuaid- Cootehill Town Team Social Community Group