Outcomers Dundalk welcome funding

Outcomers LGBTI+ Community Support Services in Dundalk said they are delighted with the news that they have been awarded €265,000 through the Community Centres Investment Fund.

The funding has been provided to up grade and refurbish their community centre in Dundalk town, to improve access to all of their services to include a café space, update bathrooms and community space and to reduce their impact on the environment through an up-to-date heating system and solar panels.

“Our vision is to create a space where we can celebrate with the whole community and to provide an inclusive space that will be bright welcoming and warm”, Otcomers manager Bernadine Quinn said.

“It will be a place of learning and development and a space for everyone, we want to give LGBTI+ people the chance to grow and move forward in their lives as full and active members of their community.

“In to the future, Outcomers can be a place that may be able to support young people with access to education, that our centre will be here to represent and be a safe space for our community.

“All of this is made possible by the ongoing support of the LGBTI+ community in the North East, our funders and supporters the HSE, Louth County Council, POBAL, Tusla, LMETB, SICAP, CYPSC, DCDEIY, Dundalk Credit Union CMETB, DOJ. On this fund the Department for Rural and Community Development.”