#SICAPStories Basic Arts and Crafts

With the aid of SICAP funding, IRD Duhallow was delighted to run the highly anticipated Basic Arts and Crafts course. Participants learned Arts and Crafts in a relaxed environment and took home some wonderful projects. Learning new skills and techniques, all while meeting other people was well received by participants of this course.

This course allowed participants to improve their confidence and self-esteem, and finding joy in starting and completing a project. Wonderful art projects were completed, which participants gladly took home with them.

The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2018 – 2022 provides funding to tackle poverty and social exclusion through local engagement and partnerships between disadvantaged individuals, community organisations and public sector agencies.

Administered by Pobal and funded by the Irish Government through the Department of Rural and Community Development, it also receives funding from the European Social Fund under the Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020.